Efficient artwork management
PAS Media is the all-in-one solution that can manage your design to print business processes from the design briefing to the approval of print-ready files, including the ability to proof and approve your graphical content within your standard browser.
PAS Media is a SaaS application which is ready to be used globally without the need of any local software installation or IT infrastructure. It can be operated from any browser.
PAS Media improves the collaboration and productivity between participants involved in design to print projects by reducing errors, automating project tasks and providing key reporting about project statuses to managers.
Tens of thousands of users in 100 countries around the globe rely on PAS Media every day as their primary, indispensable tool to manage hundreds of thousands of packaging & marketing artwork projects every year.
In the age of shortened product lifecycles and the demand for quick turnaround of graphics, PAS Media is the perfect solution to manage design, graphics and print-ready data in an easy and productive way using pre-stored project templates.
The centralized and supplier-independent management, creation and approval of design and print data (inclusive of packaging artworks) offers huge benefits: You can react quickly to market trends, regulatory requirements and customer needs. This enables you to have a head start over your competitors while reducing the risk of errors.
Flexible Project Management
- Pre-stored project & workflow templates enable fast, easy and flexible control
- Keep established processes, increase their efficiency with automation
- Modify, copy, add and create new workflows with no need for IT experts
- Create your own meta-data attributes to capture key project data and enable fast search & retrieval
Easy integration
- Connect third-party-software by using standard interfaces
- Import existing project data from ERP/other systems
- Integrate local and international suppliers into your design to print & approval processes
Easy to use
- Easy to use despite broad range of functionality
- Easy project management & system operation remain, even when managing the most complex workflows
- Fast, accurate and easy to use online proofing tools enable corporate users to collaborate on artwork proofing
Process and system security
- Documented processes and approval cycles
- GMP-validated and FDA-compliant audit trails
- Electronic Signatures conforming to 21 CFR Part 11
- SaaS IT infrastructure with the highest system & data security
Cost reduction
- Reduced project management & approval cycle times
- Improved communication & coordination, resulting in fewer errors
- Detailed reports help you to Improve your processes and analyse you projects
- Automated version control reduces the risk of file version errors
Features
The all-in-one solution for Packaging Artwork and Media Asset Management
PAS Media incorporates four main areas: The Media Asset Management, the Project Management, the Intelligent Archive and the Reporting Center, which together can be easily configured to build anything from a very simple artwork approval tool with online proofing, or a complete end to end artwork management solution for a global enterprise. Learn more about each main area by clicking on the respective symbol:
To successfully carry out a project, you need a variety of different documents. In the Media Asset Management, all these files can be stored and accessed by all participating users. Marketing material, artworks, briefings, layout sketches, pictures or text files for labels in different languages, etc. – they can all be stored centrally in the Media Asset Management.
Within the PAS Media Project Management dashboard, you define every single step of your artwork project. You can easily organize the team and the responsibilities for a task/tasks to a specific person or department. If deadlines are at risk or cannot be met, the task owner will be notified automatically & the project manager can easily adjust future task durations to keep to the project deadline. PAS Media enables users to message each other directly within the project. All project dialogue is kept and archived with the project on completion.
Fast, accurate and easy to use online proofing: The VMAC-tool (View, Measure, Annotate and Compare) enables you to view and check submitted artworks. Comments and proposed modifications can be attached directly in the document view. In this way, the graphic designer responsible knows immediately when and by whom the displayed propositions were made. When the final version of an artwork is ready, the person responsible can approve it by an electronic signature. VMAC is designed to be fast and easy to use for both non-technical proofers and feature rich for professional proofing participants by adding and removing tools depending on the different end users needs.
Both completed and paused projects are stored in the Intelligent Archive. Users can access these stored documents and project data at any time. This is especially useful when existing artworks have to be adapted due to new regulatory requirements or changed customer needs. In such cases, the affected project can be located by the intelligent search function and the necessary artwork adaptations can be made.
Within the Reporting-Center, you can view the data related to all your projects. Which tasks took the most time? Which suppliers perform best? Which tasks can be optimized? The reporting center contains 22 standard reports which enables you to extract project metrics in a few clicks. You can easily create a report with all interesting KPI (Key Performance Indicators) in order to help you optimize your workflows and deliver improvements to the business.
Technology
Artwork Lifecycle Management in the Cloud – since 2002
PAS Media is a SaaS solution (Cloud Software/Software as a Service). The “client software” is just a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.). For this reason, no further software needs to be installed on the client's side. The server infrastructure of PAS Media fulfills the highest standards regarding security, availability and performance.

When you start using PAS Media in your business, you can continue working with your established software solutions as before: You can integrate your ERP-, CRM-, CMS-Systems and many other applications into PAS Media via interfaces. Data that you need for the creation or change of projects can be imported into PAS Media, without any processes being interrupted.
To make sure that your print-ready files of your packaging and marketing projects arrive quickly at the right place, we run a high-performance infrastructure: Our own data center is redundant and maintains a high-performance connection to the web that not only ensures fast download rates but also maximum reliability.
Security
Security for your sensitive data
By using top-notch technology and strictly following the safety standards of leading organizations, we are able to ensure that your data is always safe and available. Every software update is checked, quality-tested and completely documented. We have done this since July 2006 by following the strict GMP guidelines (currently: GAMP 5).
Cost Savings
Support
PAS Media server monitoring
All PAS Media servers in the table below are monitored by an independent service provider. Please click on the word «Uptime» to get an expanded view report on a daily basis.
The per-cent values displayed above are based on a 365-day year. The monitoring service started in October/November 2015.