Assets Essentials for Creative Cloud Pro with Work Management Solutions creative-cloud-enterprise-user-journeys

Introduction introduction

Creative Cloud Pro for enterprise with Work Management Solutions integrates creative, content, and work management tools to increase your ability to produce creative content and quickly achieve business goals. The solution includes the following components:

This tutorial introduces an administrator journey to enable Assets Essentials application to integrate with Creative Cloud desktop applications and Adobe Workfront application. The Creative Cloud desktop applications include Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe XD.

Deployment types deployment-types

As the solution consists of applications and services from both Creative Cloud and Adobe Experience Cloud, they might be deployed in one or two Adobe Admin Consoles for your company.

In case of deployment into two Admin Consoles, an additional configuration step is required:

To integrate Creative Cloud and Assets Essentials applications, the users that are available in Admin Console for Creative Cloud must be made available in Admin Console for Experience Cloud. To make the users available in Experience Cloud Admin Console, create a directory to establish directory trusting between the two admin consoles.

As depicted in the diagram, the Creative Cloud users are automatically made available in the Experience Cloud Admin Console based on a trust relationship between the two consoles. You can then add the users to Assets Essentials product profiles. As a result, the Creative Cloud users can access the Adobe Asset Link application that can interact with the Assets Essentials repository. For more information, see Integrate Assets Essentials with Creative Cloud applications.

Experience Manager Documentation Journeys documentation-journeys

A Documentation Journey ties together many different and perhaps complex topics and features by providing a narrative that helps the reader, who can be new to Assets Essentials, understand and solve a business problem from beginning to end, while assuming minimal prior topic or Assets Essentials knowledge.

Documentation Journeys are designed around best practices principles, informed by Adobe’s latest research, proven implementation experience from Adobe consultants, and feedback from customer projects.

Prerequisites

Administer Experience Manager Assets Essentials administer-assets-essentials

Adobe Experience Manager Assets Essentials is a new, lightweight edition of Adobe Experience Manager Assets. Assets Essentials provides unified asset management and collaboration with a simplified and a consistent user interface. The ease-of-use enables more creative and marketing teams to store, discover, and distribute digital assets.

Adobe Experience Manager Assets Essentials is provisioned by Adobe for its customers. As part of the provisioning, Assets Essentials is added to a customer’s organization in the Adobe Admin Console.

Administrators use the Admin Console to manage user entitlements to Assets Essentials product:

After managing the user entitlements in Admin Console, administrators can use the Assets Essentials application to:

Now that you have configured and managed the Assets Essentials application, integrate Creative Cloud applications with Experience Manager Assets Essentials application.

Integrate Creative Cloud applications with Experience Manager Assets Essentials administer-creative-cloud-applications

Adobe Asset Link in-app panel lets creative professionals connect to Assets Essentials repository from within the supported Adobe Creative Cloud desktop apps. The panel is available for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe XD. It streamlines the access to assets that in turn increases content velocity.

This tutorial guides you to integrate Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe XD applications with Experience Manager Assets Essentials.

Goals:

Now that you have integrated the Creative Cloud applications with Assets Essentials, integrate Adobe Workfront with Experience Manager Assets Essentials.

Integrate Adobe Workfront with Experience Manager Assets Essentials administer-adobe-workfront

Adobe Workfront is a work management application that helps you manage the entire lifecycle of work in one place. The native integration between Adobe Workfront and Assets Essentials lets organizations improve content velocity and time to market by intrinsically connecting work and asset management. Within the context of managing their work, users have access to required documents and images in the same solution.

This tutorial guides you to administer Adobe Workfront and then integrate it with Experience Manager Assets Essentials.

Goals: