| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | OpenText (Open Text Corporation) |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | Canada (Waterloo, Ontario) |
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| Founded | 2026 | 1991 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | public (NASDAQ/TSX OTEX) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | Enterprise (upper mid-market to large enterprise) |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | Not public | US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | quote-only; annual subscription or perpetual/term licence (G-Cloud 14 list price GBP 240/user/year) |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | SAML, OAuth 2.0, LDAP |
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| Certifications | None published | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Omdia Universe DXM 2025-26: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q4 2019: Leader |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | https://{tenant}/otmmapi/v6 |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Authentication | session, API key | session, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, oauth2-password |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | Unknown (session and OTDS OAuth token lifetimes are not published) |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | Not public (single-tenant installs; no limit documented) |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | offset: after/before + limit (Core DAM: offset/count, default 25) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | none; per-job callback URL (GET/POST) on import/export jobs |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | OpenAPI 3.0.1: OTMM CE 23.2 (247 ops) + Core DAM v1 (12 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | Java representations JAR shipped with the server; no public package |
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