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One of our featured vendors, Extensis, have published a whitepaper: “Enterprise Digital Asset Management Technology”.  The report covers various enterprise oriented topics such as integrating with Active Directory, APIs,  and scaling up using clustered batch processing or transcoding facilities to generate proxies and associated assets in multiple formats:

For DAM to reach its full potential, the benefits of digital asset management must be leveraged throughout the enterprise. To that end, Extensis has created a free Enterprise Digital Asset Management Technology Whitepaper that describes key technologies for integrating DAM into your business.” [Read More]

It is free to download (and no registration is required either).  The paper is written by Edward Smith, who also contributes to CMSWire.com and (in my opinion) is one of the few decent non-neutral writers in the DAM technology industry that a) seems to know what he’s talking about and b) acknowledges that it’s better not to be pitching corny sales lines about how marvellous you and your products are all the time.

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Forrester Go Head To Head With Real Story Group In DAM Evaluations Report

May 16, 2012 Industry News

Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market: “In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen Enterprises; and Xinet — and then [...]

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Amazon Present Digital Media In The AWS Cloud Webinar, 22nd May 2012 (9am PT)

May 16, 2012 Industry Events

Major DAM vendor supplier, Amazon Web Services present this webinar on how to use AWS to deliver large scale digital media solutions using their AWS Cloud platform: “With the advent of digital media, 3D, HD, animated video, and an expanding array of internet devices, Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies find it more difficult to maximize [...]

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Understanding The Differences And Similarities Between WCM And DAM – Now And In The Future

May 15, 2012 Opinion

Irina Guseva, writing on econtentmag.com considers the ‘intersection between DAM and WCM’ in this article: “It is important for organizations to start realizing that DAM really is more than just a storage of assets and that WCM’s primary function is not media and digital asset management. If your incumbent Web CMS could suffice for your [...]

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Picturepark Integrates With SharePoint

May 15, 2012 Vendors

The number of vendors linking their DAM systems to SharePoint continues to increase as the platform consolidates its position as ECM platform of choice amongst corporate IT managers.  One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark are the latest to participate in this trend.  Today, they have announced a SharePoint connector using a custom Web Part that allows [...]

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Digital Librarians And Their Role In DAM

May 12, 2012 DAM Skills

Deb Hunt, writing on the FUMSI site describes some unique skills that digital librarians can bring to a DAM implementation.  These include: An understanding of who audiences are and what they are looking for. Developing metadata schemas and taxonomies. Recognising the business value that finding information offers. Experience of creating IP and copyright policies. Expertise about [...]

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CXM – The Future Of DAM Or Another Jargon Dustbin To Dump End User Requirements Into?

May 11, 2012 Opinion

Anjali Yakkundi, writing a guest post for Stephen Powers’ Forrester blog discusses the increasing role of CXM in DAM: “DAM is moving away from traditional ECM towards CXM. DAM has long been thought of as a niche component of ECM suites that supports heavy production-oriented needs. However, as DAM breaks out of its niche status, it [...]

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ConceptShare Creative Review Component Integrated With Both ADAM and OpenText

May 8, 2012 Vendors

ConceptShare, a tool to enable users to annotate media such as artwork, video and web pages have announced two separate partnership agreements with ECM vendor, OpenText and one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM.  This from the ConceptShare/OpenText tie up: “The ConceptShare integration with OpenText Media Management will provide annotation and markup capability for documents, [...]

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iStock Releases Plug-In For Adobe CS6

May 8, 2012 Vendors

Getty images owned photo microstock agency, iStockphoto have announced a plug-in to enable users of Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 6 applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to access their range of stock images: “With the iStockphoto Plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite®, you can browse, download and edit photos and illustrations without ever leaving Photoshop®, Illustrator® [...]

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Picturepark Integrates With Dropbox

April 25, 2012 Vendors

One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark announced yesterday that they have released a connector module to enable their DAM system to integrate with the Dropbox file sharing system: “Picturepark files are synchronized to Dropbox for Teams accounts from where they can be shared with all or selected Dropbox users, regardless of whether those users [...]

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Google Drive – DAM To Go Mainstream?

April 24, 2012 Vendors

We have predicted it for some time and if the BBC start reporting about Google with headings like ‘Digital Assets’ then it’s a fair bet that Google are on the cusp of entering the DAM market: “Cloud services have become hugely popular as people seek to access content from a variety of places and devices. Reports [...]

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