Case Study: Ocean Conservancy achieves secure, centralized digital asset management with OpenText

Non-profit organization uses Hosted Digital Asset Management from Open Text as their central repository of images

Ocean Conservancy, the non‑profit behind the annual International Coastal Cleanup that mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide, struggled to manage the large volume of photos, video and data captured during the event. Asset collection was ad hoc—through email, FTP and shared drives—making files hard to find, insecure, and impossible to track for rights or metadata, which slowed internal workflows and delayed press distribution.

To solve this, Ocean Conservancy deployed Open Text Media Management On Demand, a hosted, role‑based digital asset management system that centralizes storage, enables self‑service upload/download, and offers powerful search and rights‑management features. The pilot let photographers upload images within hours and allowed the press to access assets the same day, improving productivity, knowledge sharing, response time, and delivering measurable time and cost savings.

Ocean Conservancy