The Artesia Digital Media Group is Open Text's digital asset management software division with operations centered in the Washington, D.C. area and offices throughout North America and Europe. Throughout Artesia's history, the company and its Digital Asset Management solutions have consistently remained at the forefront of rich media content management technology.

Artesia Technologies

The company was originally a division of Thomson until a management buyout in 1999 created Artesia Technologies, Inc. The next year, Artesia was named one of Computerworld's 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000, and spent the next several years as an innovator and thought leader driving the creation of the newly formed Digital Asset Management software category, an important competency area for firms dealing with intellectual property assets and digital media.

Open Text's Artesia Digital Media Group

As the company grew, Artesia secured additional capital from a group of investors that included Warburg Pincus, EMC, BEA Systems, Vignette and Razorfish. In August 2004, Artesia and its industry-leading DAM solution was acquired by Open Text Corporation, a pioneering innovator in the field of Internet search and global leader in the Enterprise Content Management category. Shortly thereafter, the company became a line of business within Open Text and was re-branded as the Artesia Digital Media Group, forming the foundation of Open Text's digital media strategy and a key component in its plan to provide solutions to the emerging Enterprise 2.0 marketplace.

Artesia DAM

The company's software, Artesia DAM (formerly Artesia TEAMS), is a scalable, JEE enterprise-class digital asset management solution for ingesting rich media content and managing the creative workflows around editing, collaborating, and distributing digital media files. Artesia DAM is currently used by companies in a variety of industries and sectors to manage advertising and marketing activities, and also within production environments in broadcast, entertainment media, publishing, and the federal government.