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Case Study: Metallwerke Renner GmbH – Efficient Image Management with Excire Foto Office Edition

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

Die Installation und Einrichtung der Excire Foto Office Edition verlief laut Metallwerke Renner reibungslos. „Läuft alles problemlos und selbsterklärend. Nur bei der Übernahme von Metadaten gab es eine Rückfrage, aber die Antwort vom Excire Support kam prompt und war sehr hilfreich.“ Auch das Benutzer-Management sei einfach umzusetzen.

“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.

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“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!"

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    Excire Foto Office Edition

    The Excire Photo Office Edition is a special solution for companies and team use. In addition to the usual AI power for simple and intuitive photo management, it has the following additional features:

    • Hide option for irrelevant keywords
    • Function to adopt folder names as keywords
    • Sharing via SFTP
    • Two-stage role concept
    • Right-of-use period as a supplement to the metadata and corresponding filter option
    • Shared database on a network drive

    Language & version

    Supported languages

    German & English

    Current version

    2.0.1

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor

    Mehrkernprozessor mit 64-bit und AVX Unterstützung
    Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support. Older AMD processors like the AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom™ II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.

    Operating system

    Windows 11 (x86 & 64-bit). Note: The Windows version is not optimized for Snapdragon or ARM processors.

    Memory

    Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.

    Hard disk

    The Excire databases require about 250 MB for 100,000 photos.
    ca. 900 MB. Der Vorschau-Speicher umfasst dann ca.
    at the highest quality, including raw formats,
    and when a preview is generated for each photo.

    Excire Search 2024 - Trial

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German, English, French, Italian & Spanish
    Current version

    4.0.0

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Memory
    8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
    Hard disk
    375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

    Excire Search 2024

    Excire Search is the perfect solution for all Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The smart Lightroom plugin analyzes and tags photos automatically and extends Lightroom with powerful AI search functions. With just a few clicks, Excire Search finds exactly the photos you are looking for. This makes image management fun again and hours of image searching a thing of the past. 

    Available for Windows and macOS and now brand new in the 2024 version with integrated duplicate finder!

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German, English, French, Italian & Spanish
    Current version

    4.1.3

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Lightroom (Classic)
    Version 6 (or newer)
    Memory
    8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
    Hard disk
    375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

    Excire Search 2022 - Trial

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German, English, French, Italian & Spanish
    Current version
    3.1.1

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Memory
    8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
    Hard disk
    375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

    Excire Foto 2024 - Trial

    Note for existing Excire Foto customers: Excire Foto users have to keep in mind for testing that the previous Excire database will be modified when the program is started for the first time. Thus a switch back to older versions is not possible without a backup. We therefore recommend creating a backup before using Excire Foto 2024. How to do this is described here.

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German & English
    Current version

    3.2.0

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Memory
    Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
    Hard disk
    The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.

    Excire Search 2022

    Excire Search is the perfect solution for all Adobe Lightroom Classic users. The smart Lightroom plugin analyzes and tags photos automatically and extends Lightroom with powerful AI search functions. With just a few clicks, Excire Search finds exactly the photos you are looking for. This makes image management fun again and hours of image searching a thing of the past. 

    Available for Windows and macOS and now brand new in the 2022 version with integrated duplicate finder!

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German, English, French, Italian & Spanish
    Current version
    3.1.1

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multicore processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD processors like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T and AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Lightroom (Classic)
    Version 6 (or newer)
    Memory
    8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more
    Hard disk
    375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory.

    Excire Foto 2024

    Excire’s flagship program boasts dazzling new features and enhanced AI technology. All-new tools offer AI-powered free-text search, GPS-search, and intelligent aesthetics assessment of individual photos. Additionally, AI upgrades ensure better results in facial recognition, similarity search, and automatic keywording.

    Excire Foto 2024 retains all core features from Excire Foto 2022, and the Excire Analytics extension is now fully integrated into the new program.

    Highlights of the 2024 version include:

    • X-prompt AI for powerful free-text image search
    • X-tetics AI for instant evaluation of photos
    • GPS-based search and editable GPS coordinates
    • Intuitive slideshow maker for professional photo displays
    • New status labels for folders and collections
    • Improved AI-search performance thanks to revamped AI models

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    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German & English
    Current version

    3.2.0

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Memory
    Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
    Hard disk
    The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.

    Excire Foto 2022

    Excire Foto 2022 is a powerful and innovative software designed for easy photo management and quick content-based browsing. Numerous smart features help you get organized and find the photos you are looking for.

    These are the highlights of the new 2022 version:

    • Duplicate finder with numerous setting options
    • Support of PSD files
    • match accuracy for similarity searches is now adjustable
    • the maximum number of search results has been increased to 50,000
    • Support of Windows network paths


    We recommend Windows users to install the Microsoft Raw image extension: Download

    Language & version

    Supported languages
    German & English
    Current version

    2.2.4

    Minimum system requirements

    Processor
    Multi-core processor with 64-bit and AVX support Older AMD Prozessoren like AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T und AMD Phenom(tm) II X (also known as AMD Athlon II X4 640) are not supported. Intel Core 2 Duo processors are not supported.
    Operating system
    macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64bit)
    Memory
    Minimum 8GB RAM is required. However, 16GB or more is recommended.
    Hard disk
    The Excire Foto databases will take up approx. 250MB for 100,000 photos, and the previews approx. 25GB if highest-quality previews are generated for each photo.