Company: Metallwerke Renner GmbH
Industry:: Metal processing / Industrial products
Application area: Managing and utilizing large image databases for online and offline publishing
Challenge: Getting the Image Flood Under Control
Metallwerke Renner GmbH specializes in the production of waste and disposal containers for urban and industrial use. With its own hot-dip galvanizing and powder-coating facilities, the company offers everything from a single source – and in doing so, generates a large volume of image material that needs to be documented, archived, and prepared for marketing, sales, and internal communications.
Before introducing the Excire Foto Office Edition, managing this ever-growing image collection was a major challenge. “There was no clear overview of the existing image material, and targeted access was time-consuming and inefficient,” reports Rüdiger Bartkowiak from the marketing department. “Searching for specific images was chaotic and slowed down the entire workflow.”
The Solution: Smart Organization with Excire Foto
Metallwerke Renner GmbH actively searched for a suitable solution and discovered Excire Foto through an article in a popular computer technology magazine.. Key factors in their decision included the clearly structured user interface, powerful AI-based keyword tagging, and the ability to run the software entirely within the company’s own on-premise network.
“With Excire, we were able to organize our image files for the first time into business-relevant and thematic categories. This now gives other departments fast and easy access to both existing and newly created image assets,” says Bartkowiak.
Simple Setup – Fast Results
The installation and setup of Excire Foto Office Edition was straightforward. . “Everything runs smoothly and is self-explanatory. We only had one question regarding metadata import, but the response from Excire support came quickly and was very helpful.”
User management is also easy to implement: “An experienced administrator can add users via the portal and assign roles without any trouble.”
Tangible Benefits in Everyday Use
Excire Foto Office Edition has quickly become an indispensable tool for Metallwerke Renner in everyday business. Especially in sales, employees benefit from the powerful search function: “Our team can quickly and easily find product images using Excire and share them with customers immediately.”
Thanks to Excire Foto Office Edition, Metallwerke Renner reports:
- Significant time savings in finding images
- More efficient content creation processes
- Reduction of the team's workload through a centralized, structured image database
- User-friendly interface with intuitive features
- Cost-effective alternative to complex DAM systems
Excire Foto Office Edition Is the Right Choice for the Company
With Excire Foto Office Edition, Metallwerke Renner GmbH has taken its image management to a whole new level. The days of messy folder structures and time-consuming searches are over.
Rüdiger Bartkowiak put it succinctly:
“For a long time, we struggled with chaotic Windows folder structures to bring some order to our image archive. Searching for product photos often led to long delays and frustration. With Excire Foto, we’ve found the right solution – it drastically reduces search times and is so easy to use that all our employees quickly got the hang of it.”
To which we respond: Rüdiger Bartkowiak, thanks so much for trusting us with your business - we're so glad that our software could make such a big difference!"
