If you have lost an image it might be a good idea to check your inbox another time.
It has recently been shown that the worlds largest “image databases” are the mail servers within Companies.
If you look closely at which file types are most commonly found on mail servers, you will see they are image files such as .JPG and .GIF.
If you in the past have used or are using the mail server as an image server you should continue reading… I’m going to tell you the solution.
We all know that it’s every Server Administrators worst nightmare that the mail system wil crash. He may also have no idea how to deal with increasingly huge involvement of these unorganized files which take up a lot of disk space - which include documents, programs and images.
I must admit that in almost every company I’ve worked for, it is totally normal, if not unavoidable, that all these types of files are floating around on the mail server.
But what does it actually cost the Companies? Let’s take a look at an example – I’ll only need to show you one before you’ll be convinced that this is a serious and common problem.
A Bank displays photos of all their employees on their website. The photographer mails a new photo of the latest employee to the graphic designer who passes it on to the marketing department, who finally e-mail it to their web master.
At this point you can see where I’m going with this, right?!
The purpose of the mail server is altered now and it has become an “image server” as well and now contains the original photo and two edited versions. So far this has cost the Company more than $100.
Later the original photo has to be used in a printed application and here arises the problem. Who, what, where and why?! Where is the photo? Everyone is desperately searching their inboxes.
The graphic designer who originally received the photo from the photographer has now left the Company and as a result they have to take the photos again.
The problem could have easily been avoided with an image server, where images can be categorized and searched for as if it was a Google search.
The photo or the image works as a “master image” from which you can make eCatalogs, desktop presentations, professional printing and web images in any format – also pdf.
A carefully crafted digital master is a valuable asset that can be repurposed and reused over a period of many years.
You only need to upload the image once to the image server and it will thereafter be accessible by all employees of the Company.
We would like to invite you to view an example of a typical image server which provides phonetic searching and categorizing. Try it for yourself and discover how easy it is to manage your images using an image server, as compared to managing them in your inbox.
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