Case Study: The Metropolitan Museum of Art achieves scalable digital asset management and workflow efficiency with NetX

The Metropolitan Museum of Art streamlines 500+ employee workflows with NetX

The Metropolitan Museum of Art faced significant challenges managing its vast and growing digital media collections, which included over a million images and tens of thousands of other files. Their legacy digital asset management (DAM) system was inefficient, difficult to scale, and hampered staff workflows, particularly for the imaging team. The museum needed a flexible, scalable solution to preserve, organize, and share its digital assets, leading them to partner with vendor NetX and implement the NetX Digital Asset Management platform.

NetX provided a robust DAM solution, migrating over a million assets and integrating bidirectionally with the museum's collection system. The platform's workflow engine automated tasks like image processing and metadata updates, while its intuitive interface and batch uploading capabilities improved efficiency for over 500 users. A key result was the streamlined photography workflow enabled by a custom NetX JIRA Connector, which significantly boosted productivity. The partnership with NetX delivered a scalable infrastructure that met the evolving needs of the museum's 20 departments.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art