#1 Secure DAM solution

Best-in-class On-Premise Digital Asset Management Solution

Daminion keeps your digital assets secure, organized, and always under your ownership — with predictable costs and no reliance on external clouds.

 

The Best On-premise Digital Asset Management Solution
900+ organizations worldwide already keep their assets safe and accessible with Daminion
Secure Storage

Full Control Over Your Digital Library

Your files remain on your infrastructure, while Daminion adds powerful search, tagging, and collaboration on top.

With Daminion, you can avoid unpredictable cloud bills, and give teams fast, reliable access to assets without Internet dependency

Features

Organize Smarter. Work Faster. Stay Secure.

Everything you expect from a modern DAM — optimized for your NAS or server.

Compatible with all major NAS and file server setups — including Synology, QNAP, NetApp, and Windows Server. Daminion works as a lightweight overlay: your files stay on NAS while the system adds indexing, tagging, and fast search. 

Map Active Directory / Entra ID groups to Daminion roles, or assign individual users. Protect sensitive files with role-based permissions down to asset level.

Save time with AI-based image tagging (keywords aligned to your taxonomy), audio & video transcription with searchable text, facial recognition, and duplicate/similar image detection. 

Schedule automatic folder rescans (daily or custom intervals). Preserve folder hierarchy while enriching assets with IPTC, EXIF, XMP, and custom metadata.

Track revisions, roll back when needed, and ensure everyone works with the latest approved version. Share collections with expiring links and custom permissions.

Choose Daminion

On-Prem DAM Designed for Full Control

Keep assets secure, organized, and fully owned — without third-party risks.

 

Best-in-Class On-Premise DAM

Works seamlessly with NAS and Windows servers. Lightweight, fast, and optimized for long-term use without cloud dependencies.

20+ Years of DAM Expertise

Trusted by 800+ organizations worldwide. We know the challenges of managing digital libraries and build solutions tailored to your workflows.

Multi-Format Asset Support

Manage 150+ file types — from RAW photos and videos to Adobe files, PDFs, and office documents — all searchable and previewable in one system.

Easy Steps

Get Started with Daminion On-Prem

Bring order to your assets in four simple steps.

Import and Organize

Upload existing files from shared cloud drives, local folders, and computers to a NAS. Daminion auto-tags assets for instant searchability.

Set Up Access and Permissions

Configure department-based roles so marketing, product, and admin teams only see what they need.

Train and Launch

Onboard teams quickly with guided support and intuitive features: upload, search, tagging, and revisions.

Maintain and Expand

Refine tag hierarchies, expand usage across departments, and schedule automatic folder rescans and backups.
FAQs Made Easy

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about on-prem DAM.

Not at all. Many industries — government, manufacturing, research, creative — rely on on-prem for compliance, speed, and cost efficiency. Daminion is committed to long-term support.

Cloud costs grow with storage and users. Daminion has predictable expenses: you control the servers, so storage costs don’t balloon as your archive grows. Licensing is flexible (annual or lifetime).

Yes. Daminion overlays metadata and smart search on top of your folders. You keep your hierarchy but gain instant discoverability.

Yes. Options include VPN, static IP, or private gateways. Teams can work remotely while assets remain securely stored locally.

Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere), Microsoft Office, Active Directory/Entra ID, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and metadata standards (IPTC/XMP/EXIF).

Minimal. Daminion is a lightweight overlay for your NAS/server. Routine backups, user management, and updates are easy to handle.

Yes, if your servers have the required GPU/CPU power. Quality is comparable to modern LLMs, and everything runs behind your firewall.

Yes. Daminion has both a desktop client and a web interface for flexibility.

From 3 users to hundreds, with millions of assets supported. Supported up to 100 concurrent users per server instance.

Real Reviews

Stories from Our Customers

See why hundreds of teams worldwide rely on Daminion On-Prem to keep assets secure, searchable, and under control.

Daminion gives us one central access point for all our media.

Daminion helps us to catalog a large amount of hi-res images and videos, and organize them in a quick and easy way to be able to retrieve them as we need it.

Instead of having pics spread across different locations, Daminion gives us a central access point to them and helps to find them quickly.

Chris Eichman
IT Director
Daminion saves us tons of time and effort.

Daminion saves us tons of time and effort uploading because we have a lot of images from our research projects, and software is fast and reliable.

Daminion is an all-in-one, easy to understand, and user-friendly solution

Matt Perley
Program Administrator
Using Daminion helps us to be more efficient…

We used to have a different software which wasn’t as user-friendly as Daminion. Using Daminion helps us to be more efficient in working with images and saves a lot of time because we can have everything in one place now. Daminion is a step forward for us from what we had and we are convinced it is a great solution.

Nico Van Aerde
Online Communications Specialist
Daminion helps us find project photos in seconds.

We have many photos related to different projects, so Daminion is an easy way to find what we need very quickly. The main way to use the program is photo management and quick file extraction. We can save time with Daminion, and that’s the most important thing.

Leana Lares
Creative Marketing Director
at Google
The big thing for us is having an on-premise solution — not cloud-based.

The big thing for us is that we need to have a solution on-premise and not cloud-based. We have a lot of photos under non-disclosure agreements from clients who want them kept private. Another important factor is functionality and interface.

I want all the content to be easy to access and the software to be good to work with — now we have it all.

Mark Fugina
Head Librarian
One of the great things about Daminion is that all assets are referenced.

We don’t need to send files around because the whole team can use Daminion. We just refer to the assets directly, with no miscommunication or excessive file sharing.

Steven Yates
Marketing Team
All the functions we needed are provided by Daminion.

We were looking for software to organize photos and videos for distributing content professionally. We also needed a tool that allowed departments outside of our organization to easily search for images and videos in an organized way.

All these functions are provided by Daminion, so now our work with images runs very fast and effectively.

Collin Davis
Mount Pleasant Gov
Daminion helps us create a centralized archive and find photos easily.

We tried to create an image catalog with multi-user access, but our assets were scattered across disks and cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox, making it difficult to use photos and track current licenses.

As part of our work, we take photos of different animals and plants. These images are needed immediately for brochures and manuals, and later for books — so they must not be lost. Daminion helps us create a centralized archive and makes photo searching much easier.

Karl Souza
Director of Finance & Operations
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