| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Esko (MediaBeacon product line) |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California) | Belgium (Esko HQ, Ghent); MediaBeacon originated in Minneapolis, MN (USA) |
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| Founded | 1982 | 1989 |
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| Ownership | public (NASDAQ: ADBE) | subsidiary of Esko, part of Veralto (NYSE VLTO) since 2023-09-30 |
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| Deployment | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Pricing model | quote-only; packages Assets Prime / Assets Ultimate with user types (Limited, Collaborator, Power, Admin); Dynamic Media Prime/Ultimate add-ons (DM billed on aggregated page views/visits) | quote-only (vendor cloud subscription or on-premise licence) |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | HIPAA-ready, CMMC L2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader | Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q2 2018: Strong Performer |
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| OpenAPI spec | Partial | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | YesAdobe I/O Events; AEM as a Cloud Service only | No |
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| Official MCP server | YesAEM MCP Server, https://mcp.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/mcp/aem | No |
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| API base URL | https://author-p{program}-e{env}.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets | https://{tenant}/wf/restapi/v2/{endpoint} |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, JWT | API key, Basic auth, session |
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| Token lifetime | ~24 h (IMS access token, expires_in; refresh rules for user flows Unknown) | API keys permanent by default; expiring keys can be created from workflows |
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| Rate limit | Not public (429 + exponential backoff; thresholds via support ticket) | Not public |
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| Pagination | cursor (limit 1-50 + opaque cursor) | page index (pageIndex + pageSize, default 100) on search endpoints |
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| Webhooks (API) | Adobe I/O Events: webhook (RSA-SHA256 signed), journal, EventBridge | none; server-side workflow triggers on asset events instead |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 (6 archived spec files, 2026.07) | none public (JSDoc / Javadoc HTML reference only) |
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| Official SDKs | No generated SDK; Node.js upload/events libs and Java AEM SDK (official) | none official; server-side Workflow JS API and browser Client JS API |
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