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PrintGrid Service – flexible, dynamic and integrable

Turn your data into print-ready layouts – flexibly, efficiently and without scripts. Experience PrintGrid Service for high-quality product data sheets and contact sheets directly from your source system.

Clariant increases efficiency in media management with brix:anura API and Upload Request

Find out how Clariant uses the brix:anura API to seamlessly integrate media content from a digital asset management (DAM) system into the brand portal and website and upload the latest product data sheets directly to the website via Upload Request.

brix:anura API – flexible use, for all scenarios

brix:anura is the ideal API for anyone who wants to extend or revise their web applications quickly and easily. Learn how the brix:anura API is used by our customers.

Article based search for brix:anura

Find product assets faster using the article-based search in brix:anura.

SCOTTs Athletes App

At the SCOTT Global Ambassador Summit, held in beautiful Aosta, Italy, Scott introduced the new «SCOTTs Athletes App» to legends from five top disciplines. Find out the intention behind the app and how brix contributes significantly to the brand experience with the «Upload Request» and brix:anura.

CMA Auto-Configuration for brix Extensions

Configure our CELUM Extensions and Connectors in the Configuration Management Application (CMA) GUI.

New comment function for brix:corvus

Collaborate more productively and get a better overview – with the new comment function in the brix:corvus editorial system.

New Anura feature: Related Assets

Display your asset relations in brix:anura, e.g. in the detail view.

novomind Connect: CELUM ContentHub and novomind iPIM in sync

Maintain, synchronize and use valuable product content with the help of CELUM ContentHub, novomind iPIM and novomind Connect.

Technical News August 2020

brix cross media service GmbH becomes brix IT Solutions GmbH!

Our 20-year company anniversary has caused us to question whether the name "brix cross media service GmbH" still represents the company in a contemporary way. More about the name change and product updates can be found in our newsletter.

Technical News June 2020

We are pleased to announce our newest business area Business Process Management (BPM). In addition, our developers have been working diligently on new extensions and interfaces that might be of interest to you.

Technical News April 2020

We would like to share with you the latest technical developments that we worked on, even in times of Corona. Perhaps the one or another information about our products might prove to be helpful to you, especially during this time.

Technical News February 2020

The brix «Technical News» provides a compact overview of all relevant developments around the products CELUM DAM, CELUM Extensions and Connectors, Akeneo PIM, brix:papilio and others.

brix:corvus – the smart editorial system

The smart editorial system – create editorial content online in an uncomplicated way and publish it online

Technical News October 2019

Find out more about the latest brix development "Smart Collection" in our "Technical News" issue of October 2019 and get a sneak preview of the new CELUM NOVA UI. On top of that, we will keep you informed about the latest updates to our CELUM Extensions and Connectors.

brix:anura Update

New feature for brix:anura

Technical News August 2019

With our "Technical Information", you as a customer or partner will receive information about relevant developments around the products CELUM DAM, CELUM Extensions and Connectors, Akeneo PIM, brix:papilio and others in a compact format.

New and improved CELUM Extensions & Connectors

A lot has happened since our news from March 2019. Several new and improved Extensions & Connectors, developed by our brix Software Engineering Team, are available to all customers and partners on our brix CELUM Extensions Store.

New features of brix:anura / CELUM ContentLand

The CELUM portal integration brix:anura offers new user-friendly features.

CELUM Toolbox

With the CELUM Toolbox, you can easily import and export any assets for your CELUM installation, including metadata and more

The smart Swiss W2P solution – brix:papilio

Flexible design for print templates with brix:papilio.

brix:papilio 7.0 – New Release

We are pleased that with brix:papilio 7.0 we were again able to produce numerous customer requests and optimizations of our W2P application.

At this point we present only an excerpt. All new functions and optimizations can be found in our brix:papilio 7.0 Release Notes.

New and improved Plugins on our CELUM Extension Store Mar 2019

There are new and improved extensions available on our CELUM Extension Store due to our customer needs.

New Extension «Focal Point Setter»

Set the focal point on images and save image details for further use.

New CELUM Extension «Auto Translate»

More efficiency in setting metadata thanks to automatic translations.

Coming soon: New PIM connector akeneo:connect

Just in time for the DMEXCO we present the pre-release of our newest connector. With akeneo:connect you synchronize product information from akeneo PIM and product assets (images, videos, documents) from CELUM DAM in order to provide third-party systems (e.g. e-commerce or publishing systems) a unified view on your products.

New and improved Plugins on our CELUM Extension Store Aug 2018

Once again, there are four new extensions available on our CELUM Extension Store, as well as many improved extensions based on the needs of our customers.

New CELUM Extension «Asset Validation»

Validate assets according to specific criteria and mark them with bullets and tooltips.

New CELUM Extension «Share Listing»

Keep track of all PIN codes, Smart Views and Upload Requests!

New CELUM Extension «Asset Order»

For users that don't have permissions to download assets from CELUM DAM, we introduce our new extension «Asset Order» for ordering assets.

New CELUM Extension OneDrive Connect

If you need mobile access to optimized files from CELUM, we recommend our new backstage module OneDrive Connect.

brix:anura – now with faceted search

Our CELUM portal integration brix:anura now also offers faceted search. The extended anura search component provides a user-friendly way to refine your selection criteria step-by-step and reset them with a single click.

Dynamic Database Publishing (DDP) with dox42 for MS Office

In addition to Xactuell for the automation of the DTP publishing processes with Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress, we now offer dox42 for the flexible, powerful and intuitive data integration and document automation for Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

Duplicate cleansing made easy

Do you want to efficiently clean up the duplicates in your DAM system without losing metadata?

CELUM TYPO3 Connect now also available for TYPO3 CMS 8

Our standard plugin TYPO3 Connect is now also available for TYPO3 CMS 8.

CELUM Magnolia Connect available as standard connector

Magnolia Connect is another standard plug-in developed by brix cross media for seamless CMS integration. This allows CELUM assets to be placed directly in Magnolia CMS components so that they are linked there and thus always up-to-date.

CELUM Toolbox – Powerful Features for CELUM 5 as Cloud Services

Create, view and export listings of metadata, nodes, user information, permissions and much more.

View information at a glance and export with a single click.

Revolutionary ways to upload assets

Users without a CELUM login can now also fill their DAM system using a definable upload request.