Digital Asset Management News

Cutting Through The Fog With DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:00:37 +0000

In this article Nolan Jones at ProPrint examines the implications of cloud computing for printing businesses and how digital asset management may allow printers to not merely use the cloud, but to become the cloud. “This is digital asset management (DAM), which goes hand in hand with web-to-print storefront. As well as giving customers a [...]

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DAM Strategies For Audience Growth

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:56 +0000

In this article, SEO expert Terry Van Horne discusses how digital asset management strategies can develop target audiences across multiple media channels and the role of the Digital Asset Manager in achieving those organisational goals. “Yes, there is a bit of optimization of videos, news, and images to get them into Google’s search results and videos ranking higher [...]

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Henry Stewart DAM 2012 Conference Line Up

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:44:27 +0000

Henry Stewart, the first (and at one time only) DAM conference organiser have announced the dates for each of their conference venues in 2012: DAM New York – May 10th – 11th DAM Europe* – June 25th – 26th DAM Chicago – September 13th DAM Los Angeles – November 1st – 2nd * London, UK. [...]

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Cantemo Release White Label Portal DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:32:04 +0000

Following on other white label DAM offerings such as FocusOPEN which we covered last week, Swedish vendor, Cantemo have released a new version of Portal DAM which is targeted at the OEM market. Although closed source, it does offer a range of different plug-ins and is clearly aimed at the intermediary market: “As an OEM [...]

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EnterMedia 8.0 Released

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:19:44 +0000

The early 2012 surge of new DAM system releases from vendors continues this week. Entermedia have released version 8.0 of their open source DAM system. The new edition features improved layout, better handling of large scale repositories, access to recently added media and featured content: “EnterMedia 8.0 now provides quicker access to related assets, recent [...]

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FocusOPEN 3.4.2 Released

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:13 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, FocusOPEN (who now seem to have become semi-detached from Daydream – their parent company) have released a new version of their DAM system. The blog entry with the details is mercifully short – in general and on marketing spiel too, unlike some others I have read recently. The major new [...]

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Createasphere Announce 2012 DAM Conference Dates

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:22:06 +0000

Createasphere have made us aware of their 2012 conference dates. For those readers who plan to attend one or more event, the breakdown is: Los Angeles – February 22-23, 2012 New York – September 27-28, 2012 New York (including DAMMY Awards) – September 28, 2012 The Hague (Netherlands) – November 13-14, 2012 More details are [...]

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WebDAM Solutions Add REST API To SaaS DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:14 +0000

One of our Featured Digital Asset Management Vendors, WebDAM Solutions have added a REST API to their SaaS DAM solution (as as separate add-on): “With the REST API, developers can extend digital asset management functionality by repurposing metadata and assets residing in WebDAM or leveraging assets and metadata in a bevy of other systems. Integrating [...]

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North Plains Release Telescope 9.1

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:07:31 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have released version 9.1 of their flagship product, Telescope. Last year, we mentioned that North Plains (along with Media Beacon) were one of those eager to provide iPad interface for their product. The press release is a bit short on detail about what is actually new (and [...]

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Semantic Web: The Key To More Meaningful Large Scale Digital Asset Management?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:46:17 +0000

In this ReadWriteWeb article, Chris Lamb discusses how relevancy has increased significantly in importance over and above the news ‘containers’ of the past (e.g. newspapers). He considers some emerging technologies that might help people extract more meaningful content. One point he raises is that current applications are inadequate: “The dilemma is that relevant is in [...]

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SOPA And PIPA: Bad News For SaaS or Hosted DAM?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:46:26 +0000

Most readers will have heard of the two US Internet anti-piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA, being considered by the US Congress and Senate respectively. Rather less may fully understand the implications of them. The DAM book website has an excellent introduction: “The bill seeks to let the government create a naughty list. If you are on [...]

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HTML5 vs Apps: Which Side Are You On?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:47:30 +0000

In this Onlinevideo.net interview, Lauri Kivinen of Finnish TV broadcaster, YLE is interviewed and comes down on the side of HTML5 for content delivery: “Big content creators are already moving away from apps. Kivinen relates that The Financial Timeshas gone with an HTML5 format with no apps required for viewing on devices. His own company is [...]

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The History Of Classification

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:04:01 +0000

Christine Connors, writing on the TriviumRLG blog has written a brief history of classification. This paragraph about the history of taxonomies in the enterprise stood out specifically for me: “Taxonomies in the enterprise reach back further than one thinks, but became known to researchers in 1858 when the NY Times began its index to the newspaper. [...]

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Webinar: Avoiding The Invisible Dangers of DAM, Tue Jan 24th 2012, 10am (PT)

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:42:31 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto are hosting a one hour webinar presentation on “The Invisible Dangers of DAM”. The webinar will cover these major topics Managing expectations and delivering successfully at a level that can be achieved and maintained over time. Monitoring and improving DAM systems so it continues to provide functionality that [...]

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Cloud: Good Concept But Bad Clients

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:15:49 +0000

Danny Ayers writing on his personal blog discusses his take on Cloud with this article: “The Emperor’s New Client“. In the article, Danny describes how he agrees with and likes many of the building blocks of the cloud such as the http protocol but dislikes the clients used to access data upon it. If you’re [...]

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Digital Asset Management Technology Predictions For 2012

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:30:36 +0000

Yesterday we analysed the prospects for the DAM industry in 2012. Today we look more closely at our DAM technology predictions for 2012 and consider a number of themes as, such as: How the novelty factor of DAM systems is ending and end users are demanding more sophistication and power Why DAM system will increasingly [...]

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Predictions For Digital Asset Management In 2012: The DAM Industry

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:07:44 +0000

In this the first of a two part piece, we have written an article where we outline our predictions for the Digital Asset Management industry in 2012. The key themes to emerge from our discussion are the impact of the wider economic environment and the increased competition in in the DAM sector. Some of the [...]

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Introduction To SharePoint 2010 Seminars: UK (Reading, Basingstoke and London), Jan-Mar 2012

Nick Brookes — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:26:12 +0000

ICS are hosting three seminars with an introduction to SharePoint 2010. The seminars are on January 24th (Basingstoke), 14th February (Reading) and 13th March (London) – all in the UK in 2012: “The SharePoint 2010 Overview Seminar provides a quick start guide to everything you need to know to make SharePoint a success in your [...]

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Enterprise Metadata & Taxonomies

Nick Brookes — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:19:14 +0000

Earley and Associates have published a blog post last week on Metadata and Taxonomies: “Business makes extensive use of taxonomy and metadata in a variety of scenarios including accounting, databases and inter/intra-net based applications to provide structure and organize information. All this is normal and straightforward. Chaos arises, however, when a business manager or executive [...]

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DAM Implementations And The Risk Of Scope Creep

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:41:03 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, WAVE Corporation have written a blog post which definitely resonates with my own consulting experience when working with clients who are interested in implementing Digital Asset Management. They discuss how when they get enquiries, sales prospects can tend to expand the scope of the system to encompass more wide-ranging requirements [...]

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Portfolio Server 10.1 Released

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:13:51 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis have released version 10.1 of their Portfolio Digital Asset Management System. The point release has a variety of new features and bug fixes, including: OS X Lion support Support for Apple ProRes video codec Improved Web Client login and folder navigation performance Support for preview clips in the [...]

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WCM And DAM: Increasingly Competing For The Same Budget?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:43:55 +0000

In “Despite its allure, digital asset management not always the right fit“ Jonathan Gourlay writing on the Search Content Management section of TechTarget.com suggests that organisations may not necessarily require a DAM system if they have WCM (Web Content Management). He refers to Forrester research and other consultants (in WCM and some in ECM also): “You [...]

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The Embedded Metadata Manifesto: Proper Industry Recognition For The Value Of Embedded Metadata At Last?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:34:38 +0000

This was covered on David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary group. The Embedded Metadata Manifesto discusses 5 key principles for using and creating embedded metadata and is aimed at both intellectual property originators (creators of assets like photographers, film makers etc), tool developers (i.e. DAM vendors) and end users. The following is a rough summary: Anyone involved [...]

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Xinet Release New Version Of WebNative

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:11:45 +0000

DAM vendor, Xinet have released version 17 of their Web Native DAM system, the new release includes: More robust asset timer (expiration feature) New triggers and actions based on workflow events Simplified creation of custom sites Updated GUI More details in the Xinet press release. Xinet Release New Version Of WebNative is a post from: [...]

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The State Of Semantic Web Tools: Open Source Still Dominates And Tool Growth Forecast To Level Off

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:42:02 +0000

The AI3 blog has an article that reviews the state of Semantic Web tools. The key findings are: There are now over 1000 tools available. The number of tools has increased by 17% in the last 6 months. 75 tools have been abandoned or retired: the highest figure since the figures were first compiled. Over [...]

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ECM/DAM Standards: Choosing Those That Are Important For Your Implementation

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:59:04 +0000

This Content Geeks article (which is written by Nuxeo staff) considers various types of ECM standards: “Standards Matter, but Don’t Be Blind“. This article reviews the main types and related technologies by sub-dividing them into 3 broad categorisations: Interoperability: CMIS specifically but also WSS (SharePoint), WebDAV and CIFS Metadata: XML, IKS, Dublin Core and RDF [...]

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WeVideo Review

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:22:40 +0000

OnlineVideo,net features a review of Flash based on-line vide editor, WeVideo.net. Apart from the issues inherent in using Flash (lack of iPhone/iPad support mainly), the review seems broadly favourable: “We’re in the baby steps phase of the online video editing market. WeVideo has a solid interface and is the closest I’ve seen to a desktop [...]

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W3C Recommends Ontology For Media Resources 1.0

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:12:50 +0000

The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has recommended Ontology For Media Resources 1.0. The aim is to connect many media resource descriptions together and provide a core set of properties that can be to used to express them. This ontology also defines their mappings to elements from a number of other metadata formats also: “This document [...]

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Open Source, SaaS Or On Premise: Facts Or Vendor Fiction?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:29:49 +0000

One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, Widen, have written an article where they compare different types of DAM platform delivery models. Since Widen are a SaaS vendor, the article is skewed towards SaaS and basically trashes the on-premise and open source options. For example: “The third main category for digital asset management systems [...]

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SKOSsy Dynamically Generates Thesauri: Automated Controlled Vocabularies A Real Possibility?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:51:16 +0000

SKOSsy is a SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) which generates thesauri dynamically in English and German. SKOSsy uses DBPedia which is an independent project to extract structured data from Wikipedia. It’s important to point out that SKOSsy produces ‘seed’ thesauri which still will need some clearing up using a thesaurus editing tool like PoolParty. Setting aside the [...]

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Vyre Launches Creative Workflow For On Brand

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:38:34 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Vyre, have launched their ‘third module’ for their On Brand solution which relates to creative workflow. Unfortunately, Vyre’s press release is big on marketing hyperbole but short on detail. Note to DAM software marketing people: just tell us what it is, your users can decide whether it’s “a no [...]

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Video Search And Timeline Metadata Seminar, December 14, NYC

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:41:24 +0000

The New York Enterprise Search Group is holding a ‘meetup’ seminar that will discuss ”Video Search and the Rise of Time-coded Metadata”. Timecode or timeline metadata is one of these subject areas that offers currently untapped potential for DAM systems, so this event looks well worth attending if you either add video to DAMs or are [...]

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Elvis DAM 2.6 Released

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:15:36 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Dutch Software, have released version 2.6 of their Elvis DAM System. The key extension is their own plug-in architecture which they release as open source modules, although it should be stressed that the Elvis core itself is not an open source app. The full list of updates are: Major [...]

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DAM Hosting: On The Cloud Or Your Server?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:15:49 +0000

CMSWire.com features an article by Edward Smith from Extensis with the title: “Does Digital Asset Management Belong On Your Server or in the Cloud?” Despite the disclaimer about his background (Extensis being renowned as ‘on premise’ rather than a Cloud vendor), Edward presents a fairly even handed summary of the pros and cons. He covers [...]

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Mobile DAM “Completes The DAM Value Chain” Or Excites The Interest Of DAM Software Marketers?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:33:41 +0000

Last week, we posted about one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains and their release of an iPad interface for their DAM system, Telescope. Yesterday, they published a post “Mobile Digital Asset Management Completes the DAM Value Chain” where they have discussed the role of mobile DAM: “Companies that use DAM to manage large [...]

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OpenText Up The Tempo On Cloud Document Management

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:58:29 +0000

ECM vendor, OpenText have released a new product called ‘Tempo’ which they describe as ”a fast, easy and secure document sharing solution that allows enterprise users to share and manage content in secure folders on smartphones, tablets, and PCs or laptops”. The document management solution appears to be an attempt to defray the impact of [...]

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Razuna 1.4.7. Released

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:24:29 +0000

One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Razuna, have released version 1.4.7 of their DAM system. The main addition seems to be a labelling feature: “The concept of Labels in Razuna is very similar to, say to the way how Labels work in Gmail. Labels are dynamic and can be assigned to any asset. [...]

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Creatasphere DAM Europe Conference Summary

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:22:57 +0000

Kashyap Kompella from consultants, Real Story Group has written up a summary of the Creatasphere DAM Europe conference which was held in the Hague (Netherlands) recently. Kashyap has done a great job of distilling the material from the conference into this piece and covers 10 key areas: DAM is (finally) being acknowledged as relevant and useful [...]

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Report On “DAM Best Practices”:

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:43:30 +0000

Research group, Forester have published a report on DAM Best Practices. The report contends that only three elements are needed for a best practice strategy: Develop A Taste For The Different Flavors Of DAM Apply Rich-Media-Specific Governance Make Rich Media Metadata Management A Religion “To better help C&C pros create mature and successful DAM strategies, [...]

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NorthPlains Joins MediaBeacon In Positioning For Mobile DAM: But How Long Before Real Users Catch Up?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:12:50 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, released their iPad interface in their attempts to corner the mobile DAM market: “Built to fully embrace the strengths of TeleScope as well as the strengths of the iPad, this interface brings all of the intuitive touch gestures of the iPad to TeleScope’s industry-leading interface. Swipe, pinch, [...]

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Daydream Release Version 3.4.1 Of FocusOPEN Open Source DAM System

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:53:10 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have released an update to their .NET open source DAM system, FocusOPEN. The stand out features for me were: Image manipulation: cropping, flipping, and re-sizing assets Advanced multi-level group permissions features Physical asset support and delivery information Batch email broadcasts PDF contact sheets User collaboration on lightboxes Read More [...]

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HTML5 Poised To Kill Off Flash And Silverlight: Potential Negative Impact For Innovations In DAM Interfaces?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:40:20 +0000

As described in both this article and this one by CMSWire.com, the days of proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight look numbered. From the first article about Flash: “Shunned by Apple’s iOS and Windows Phones, and offering a spotty experience on Android, Flash on mobile platforms has had a rough ride. One that may be coming to [...]

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Why Modern DAM Systems Are So Much More Than Shared Folders

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:52:08 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released a blog post: “A shared folder is no substitute for DAM software“. They pose several reasons why: Limited security Lack of back up (replication) Need to invest in IT equipment Lack of proper version control “The shared folder is a tempting, easy fix for providing widespread [...]

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Thai Floods Contributing To Hard Disk Price Rises

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:51:03 +0000

Peter Krogh, author of the “The DAM Book” writes on the The DAM Show blog about a steep increase in the cost of hard drives due to the flooding taking place at present in Thailand: “Due to flooding in Thailand, we’re seeing hard drive prices rise steeply in a matter of days. Large drives (3 TB [...]

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Visual Searching: The Next Opportunity For DAM Systems?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:49:37 +0000

Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB has written an article entitled: “Visual Information Retrieval: the Next challenge in Information Management“. Johannes discusses the reasons why non-text based search strategies are now more important than ever with the exponential rise in image or video digital content. He outlines 4 challenges for information management Electronic files [...]

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Key Themes From Taxonomy Bootcamp

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:01:22 +0000

The Taxonomy Blog covers a report of the Taxonomy Bootcamp which was apparently compiled from tweets rather than attending the event. In “What next, taxonomy?” the authors discuss 5 key themes and questions that were discussed at length during the conference: Centralised taxonomies don’t scale. Think federated and allow localised modifications. Does social media have [...]

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SoundCloud: HTML5 Player For Embedded Audio

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:11:05 +0000

Until recently, the method most DAM systems used for delivering audio assets was a SWF player that played a transcoded MP3 proxy file. That’s probably going to be the case for at least the next year (or more) but SoundCloud are aiming to hasten the demise of Flash’s role as delivery medium of choice for [...]

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Adobe Acquires Auditude: Integrated Video WCM/DAM Opportunity Or Another Potential Failed Acquisition?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:04:27 +0000

Adobe, owner of both Day Software and Scene 7 DAM/ECM vendors announced yesterday that they had bought up Auditude, developers of a video advertising platform: “Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash the power of customer insight. For example, using [...]

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Digital Media Collections: Archivists Need To “Take Control” Back From IT

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:16:24 +0000

Joshua Ranger writing on the AudioVisual Preservation Solutions blog discusses how “Digital Media Collections Are an IT Problem But Not an IT Solution”. The essence of Joshua’s post is that while archivists must collaborate with IT professionals to enable digital collections to be established, it is the archivists who should have primary control over core elements [...]

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Matroska Multimedia Container Format

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:03:12 +0000

This was posted on the Controlled Vocabulary list that metadata expert, David Riecks manages. Matroska is a new open standard container format for multimedia files. Many readers will be aware of container formats for video, like QuickTime or AVI etc. Matroska can be used to hold metadata, including ‘time line’ metadata such as DVD chapters: Fast seeking in [...]

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Review Of Video Transcoding And Encoding Products

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:52:32 +0000

OnlineVideo.net carries a review of various video transcoding products. The post is divided into three major categories: Hardware , Software , Cloud & Hybrid Solutions and the following tools are assessed: Hardware Harmonic/Rhozet Inlet Technologies/Cisco Elemental Technologies Digital Rapids ViewCast Software Telestream Episode Sorenson Squeeze Microsoft Expression Encoder Adobe Media Encoder Cloud Encoding.com Sorenson Squeeze [...]

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Myths About Taxonomy And SharePoint

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:08:53 +0000

Jeff Carr, writing on the Earley & Associates Blog discusses 5 commonly held misconceptions about taxonomies and SharePoint: The store management tool is not really a substitute for true taxonomy management Taxonomy is an “IT Problem” Library personnel are best placed to design SharePoint taxonomies SharePoint taxonomies need to be highly granular and over-burdened with level [...]

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New Version Of Widen Media Collective

Naresh Sarwan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:31:42 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen have released an update to their SaaS DAM System, “Media Collective”. The upgrade is mostly user interface updates and includes: Search within and faceted searching allowing for a powerful refine search Revised search results display which loads the previews as you scroll and Quick View All new concept [...]

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CIOs “Increasingly Interested In DAM”

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:39:24 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have written a whitepaper “Why CIOs are increasingly interested in DAM”: “New technologies have created a new world of marketing and have led to an increased importance of marketing activities within the enterprise. With these changes, comes new pressure on CMOs to show greater responsibility and results in [...]

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DAM Foundations Recorded Webinar

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:28:22 +0000

One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, North Plains have released recordings of a 3 part series of webinars about the foundation of DAM: “The DAM Foundations Series is a 3-part series of DAM webinars and whitepapers designed for DAM evaluators, stakeholders and users to create shared understanding and lay a value-based roadmap for [...]

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DAM Vendor Selection – Time For A Change?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:17:52 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream, have written a blog post where they consider the role of Digital Asset Management selection consultancies and offer some advice to purchasing managers. They consider 5 areas where vendor selection consultants can potentially arrive at decisions that are not necessarily to the benefit of their clients: Charging vendors [...]

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Box.net Secures More Funding – Serious Discount Cloud DAM/ECM Competition Imminent?

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:29:43 +0000

Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors. We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than many realise. Their “Inside the Box” [...]

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Metadata Strategies Used By The BBC: Are Asset Value Judgements A Potential Source Of Conflict For DAM End Users?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:59:44 +0000

SearchDataManagement.co.uk has an interview with Mike Gunton, Executive Director of The BBC’s Natural History Unit where he describes the rationale behind the corporation’s Digital Media Initiative (DMI) which is at the core of its Digital Asset Management strategy. Unsurprisingly, the natural history unit’s metadata and archival requirements are ‘at the extreme end’ (i.e. demanding) and have lead the [...]

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The Popularisation Of Taxonomies

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:51:12 +0000

Darin Stewart, writing on the Gartner blog discusses the ongoing rise in the popularity of taxonomies, in “It’s time for taxonomy“: “In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments. I considered myself lucky if there were a dozen people in the room. Last week I [...]

Chrome Beta Includes C/C++ Engine: The Impending Transformation Of Web Digital Asset Management Systems?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:18:15 +0000

This Google blog article discusses the inclusion in their Chrome browser of a C/C++ engine using the same ‘sandbox’ security techniques as JavaScript. The feature is called “NativeClient” and uses Google’s ‘Pepper’ API to allow interaction between the C/C++ and HTML5: “First, we’re pleased to announce the integration of Native Client into Chrome. Native Client [...]

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Video DAM: Advice And Recommendations

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:26:53 +0000

Edward Smith, writing on the Extensis sponsored “DAM Learning Center” explains some of the basics of video terminology and offers some best practice tips for including it in your DAM. The main advice is: Select a common, accessible video asset format* Use proxy clips (previews) Be prepared for cataloguing and processing to take longer than stills [...]

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Tips For Buying Corporate DAM Systems

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:15:09 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream, have released a whitepaper with some recommendations for corporate purchasing managers who are considering buying DAM Systems. The report is called “DAM System Reviews: A Buyer’s Guide To Procurement Best Practices”. Daydream structure the paper around a number of key questions which we have paraphrased below: Who are [...]

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Amazon Announce Server-Side S3 REST Encryption: The Building Blocks Of Commodity DAM Systems?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:00:25 +0000

On Tuesday, Amazon, announced they were releasing a “Server Side Encryption” module for users of their S3 storage facility. For less technical users, this means they created a method for software developers to encrypt or ‘scramble’ data when it gets stored on their Cloud servers so unauthorised users (aka ‘hackers’) can’t access potentially sensitive data. “In [...]

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Lucene Eurocon 2011: October 19-20, Barcelona, Spain

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:00:50 +0000

A conference dedicated to the popular open source Lucene/Solr text search library (which is widely used by both open source and commercial DAM systems) is being held in Barcelona on 19-20th October. The event costs money to attend but if your business or organisation depends on Lucene or Solr either directly or as a component of a [...]

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Alfresco 4 Released

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:00:17 +0000

Open Source Content Management (but never to be described as “DAM”) vendor, Alfresco have released version 4 of their ‘open platform for social content management’ yesterday. The stand-out features include: High performance indexing Integrated workflow Enhanced clustering Social media integration allows publishing to: YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and SlideShare Drag & drop support (for HTML5 [...]

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“Disaster Porn”: Infrastructure & Hosting Nightmares That Could Be Coming To A DAM System Near You?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:33:07 +0000

The ‘Uptime’ section of Arstechnica.com features an article that reports from OmniTI Surge Conference (held last week) where some of the greatest IT failures were discussed. The keynote features Ben Fried, CIO of Google who describes a previous position he held at Morgan Stanley where a critical application failed, costing the firm millions of dollars. [...]

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Adobe Max: Big On Tablets And Mobile HTML But Short On Flash

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:22:30 +0000

The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM: Adobe announced they are acquiring Nitobi, sponsors of the open source PhoneGap system that allows end users to create mobile apps using HTML. Creative Cloud was [...]

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Another Eight Steps To DAM Success: Time For End Users To Re-Consider How They Procure DAM Software?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:55:21 +0000

Eight seems to be a popular number with DAM consultants right now, one of our featured DAM vendors, Vyre have released a two-part article on “Eight Steps to a Successful DAM/MRM Project”: “Any successful project must begin with finding a supplier and solution that can elegantly solve your problem. As obvious as this may sound, [...]

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Lightroom 3.5 and Camera Raw 6.5 Updated

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:05:13 +0000

Adobe have released an updated Lightroom version 3.5 and also Cmera Raw 6.5 The desktop photo management tool which is very popular with photographers for metadata management tasks features support for a wide range of new cameras but also various bug fixes: Using the arrow keys to modify image adjustment settings lacked responsiveness Saving metadata [...]

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“Free Your Metadata” Site Aims To Release Value From Imperfect Metadata

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:03:13 +0000

Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland of Free University Brussels (ULB) have launched a demonstration site based on Google Refine that aims to show irregular or imperfect metadata can become more valuable even if released rather than holding on to it in order to ‘perfect’ the data. They are interviewed in the “Fresh & Newer” section [...]

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IT vs End Users: The Real Debate?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:04:04 +0000

Chris Riley, writing on the AIIM blog discusses and age-old debate: end users vs IT departments. He contends that many debates about certain technologies are fundamentally about the needs of end users vs the intransigence of IT departments: “What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency of a common task. Not only that, [...]

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Understanding ECM: Whitepaper Series

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:10:31 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo, have published an introduction to ECM as a series of whitepapers. Their ContentGeeks.net site has an overview of part 1 of the paper: “In this first part, we’ve tried to provide insight into what Enterprise Content Management really is—and not based solely on our own perspective, but with [...]

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Whitepaper: A Guide To Metadata And DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:44:06 +0000

John Horodyski from one of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, has written a white paper: “Key concepts and best practices for using metadata indigital asset management systems”: “Metadata is an “asset” unto itself—and an important one, at that. It provides the structure and information neededto make your assets more accessible and, therefore, more valuable. In other [...]

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Open SaaS: Blessing Or Curse For The Digital Asset Management Industry?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:06:40 +0000

Jim Shaw, general manager of Acquia writing for UK VAR channel publication: CRN discusses the benefits of an open source solution when using SaaS or Cloud software solutions. He outlines the issues of using proprietary SaaS products, namely that if users decide they wish to move away from the vendor (e.g. because they no longer support their [...]

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Makx Dekkers Interview: The Impact Of DMCI Over The Last 10 Years

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:35:05 +0000

Makx Dekkers, outgoing Managing Director of DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) is interviewed by Friedel Grant in this piece from DublinCore.org site. It’s interesting to note how DMCI (once a relatively obscure standard only used by public sector organisations) has expanded into a much wider and more encompassing role: “In the more traditional metadata world, Dublin [...]

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Obtaining Knowledge From Corporate Information

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:32:39 +0000

Earley Associates have written a two part article for CIO Update: “Transforming Information into Knowledge“. The piece describes a 7 stage ‘recipe’ for breaking down the complex issue of converting disparate sources of corporate information into knowledge (i.e. information which can be acted upon). The stages are Choose a single process in a given department [...]

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Dutch Software Update Elvis DAM 2.6 With Custom Plug-Ins

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:27:02 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Dutch Software, have released a new beta version 2.6 of their Elvis DAM system. The upgrade includes: Custom plug-ins for the desktop client Major performance improvements for RAW file format preview processing. Adobe Reader integrated: View original PDF in the desktop Client Improved search engine intelligence Support for more [...]

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Whitepaper: Building A Better DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:37:14 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, have released a whitepaper: “Building A Better DAM”. The report covers: Metadata design tips that help you ensure you’re tracking everything you need both now and in the future. User account configurations that simplify permissions assignments for more secure systems Ideas for keeping metadata fresh and accurate Keeping [...]

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Box Now Supports Video: Further Evidence Of The Commoditisation Of DAM?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:54:41 +0000

Box.net recently blogged that they are now supporting video uploads with what appears to be automated transcoding also to generate proxies that can be viewed via a browser. That announcement in itself is nothing special, however, I believe it indicates evidence of a trend towards the commoditisation of DAM technologies which we have been observing for [...]

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The Drawbacks Of Cloud Pricing Models

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:07:48 +0000

David Strom writing on readwriteweb.com has written an article: “The True Cost of SaaS Apps Isn’t About the Browser“. I’m not sure about the title which I take to mean a reference to the fact that Cloud apps are often highly scalable for a very low marginal cost (for software vendors at least), but the [...]

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Costing And Planning DAM Projects

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:17:16 +0000

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Daydream, have released a whitepaper aimed at project managers which summarises the key costs and deliverables for DAM projects: The report is entitled: “The 8 Steps To DAM Success: A Manager’s Guide To Planning & Costing Digital Asset Management Projects”: Choosing DAM Software Defining the technical Infrastructure. System set-up [...]

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Using DAM Workflow To Protect Brands And Improve Cataloguing Quality

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:11:19 +0000

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Vyre, have released a blog post that discusses workflow and how it can be used to enhance metadata quality and better protect an organisation’s brand: “The use of Workflow does not need to be limited to managing the production/creation (agency artwork) or distribution (suppliers) of assets and/or artwork. It can [...]

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Metadata To Be “Taken Seriously” At IBC – But Still No Universal Standard For The Whole Video Content Lifecycle

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:56:42 +0000

Philip Hunter, writing for Broadcast Engineering yesterday, discusses how metadata is likely to be more significant at the forthcoming IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in the Netherlands in September. He notes that the majority of metadata activity is associated with Media Asset Management (or Video DAM as some of our readers would describe it). As the [...]

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Autonomy Takeover: Implications For The ECM/DAM Market

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:29:09 +0000

As was widely reported yesterday, HP simultaneously exited the PC hardware market and made a bid to purchase ECM vendor, Autonomy. Why are HP taking this step and what does it mean for DAM and the wider ECM market? Setting aside personal factors involving HP’s CEO, Leo Apotheker and his enterprise software background with SAP, [...]

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The Paradox of Choice in DAM, ECM, MAM and CMS: Vendor Fatigue Or Unrealistic User Expectations?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:35:14 +0000

In this article by one of our featured DAM Vendors, WAVE Corporation, the theory outlined by psychologist Barry Schwartz in his video ’ The Paradox of Choice’ is applied to the predicament that many consumers seeking software to manage digital information face, namely that too much choice makes procurement more complex, rather than better. “Back when people started using computers, it was [...]

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5 ECM ROI Myths

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:23:34 +0000

Brian Lincoln of DocuShare, writing on the Digital Landfill blog discusses 5 myths about the ROI that can be obtained from implementation of ECM systems. He answers each of them with very short single paragraph case study to illustrate how each of the points is false: Removing paper from business process doesn’t save much money [...]

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Createaspehere NYC: Open Source DAM Session: 23rd September, 2011

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:10:27 +0000

DAM events organiser, Createasphere have included a special session on open source DAM as part of their September New York Conference. Although just one hour long and dwarfed by the number of proprietary vendor sponsored slots, it sounds of interest to anyone considering Open Source DAM options. The topics covered will be: Myths about open [...]

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Cloud Brokerage – A Solid Foundation For Digital Asset Management Resourcing Or Just Blue Sky Thinking?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:45:35 +0000

I was interested to read Stacey Higginbottom’s article yesterday regarding her thoughts on the Forrester report ‘Cloud Broker – A New Business Model Paradigm’. Like Higginbottom, I am intrigued by the proposition that cloud providers might become one-stop shops for all computer resources, including short term human resourcing. However, I was equally struck by both the [...]

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Photo Stats Gets Graphic With EXIF

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:45:07 +0000

iPhone software vendor, Dear Future Astronaut AB, have recently released Photo Stats - an app that converts EXIF data from photos taken and stored on users’ iPhones. Although gimmicky, this creative use of EXIF data may perhaps have some practical, real-world uses for digital asset management or similar systems, such as providing instantly legible statistics on otherwise highly [...]

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Taxonomy – Is It Rocket Science?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:30:39 +0000

In this interview, Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., explains how taxonomy is crucial for successful digital asset management and describes the exciting range of subject matter she encounters working as a metadata consultant for NASA. “Taxonomy is fundamental to each stage of Digital Asset Management as it provides a centralized [...]

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Coping With Media Management Overload

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:45:06 +0000

In this article Jeremy Sohn explains the key challenges facing marketers in today’s media rich world and explores some solutions to media management overload. “With increased demand for high-quality content experiences, communication between companies and their customers has shifted. This shift has created both challenges and opportunities for today’s marketers that will only accelerate as the adoption [...]

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Will Adobe Provide The Edge For DAM?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:26:24 +0000

Following Adobe’s recent preview launch of Adobe Edge, their new HTML5 authoring tool, there has been much speculation as to whether this product release spells the end for Adobe Flash as an interface technology. The question for DAM vendors and their users, however, is whether this latest trend is a good or bad thing for [...]

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Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference, 22nd -23rd September 2011, New York

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:24:36 +0000

Returning to New York for a second year, the 2011 Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference will be held from 22nd – 23rd September 2011 at the New Yorker Hotel, New York. The schedule includes: Leveraging the Cloud, Storage & Disaster Recovery, Open Source, Immersive Technologies, Metadata and Branding & DAM. “If you are responsible for the [...]

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Canto Present “Image-based Searching and Sorting in Cumulus” Webinar, August 10

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:54:59 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, are hosting a webinar on 10th August to demonstrate the enhanced image search features provided by plug-ins for their Canto Cumulus software. “Modula4 demonstrates ImageSorter and Image Search, add-on products for Canto Cumulus that let you find images based on visual content such as color, brightness, saturation and shapes. ZoomA, [...]

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Mediabox-DAM 5.0 Major Upgrade Released

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:48:35 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Conecture Technologies, have announced a major new release to their Mediabox-DAM software. The release includes features to switch between light box and list views of assets, zoom into images to view details, transform and resize images while downloading, customize proof sheet reports and user and asset activity reports, create private [...]

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SharePoint Online or On-premise? Seminars From ICS Solutions

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:39:14 +0000

Microsoft SharePoint consultancy, ICS Solutions, are running a series of seminars addressing popular issues with SharePoint 2010 throughout late summer/autumn 2011. Topics include: ‘SharePoint Online or On-premise: Which is right for you?’, ‘What you need to know about Collaboration and Social Computing with SharePoint 2010′ and ‘How to get control of your content and manage compliance [...]

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Daydream Announce FocusOPEN 3.3.9: Will DAM/ECM Platforms Eventually Dominate DAM Systems?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:00:41 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have released a new version of their .net DAM platform, FocusOPEN. The new release is oriented towards customisation and re-configuration (especially for developers): JavaScript scripting engine for extending the FocusOPEN API Customisable metadata and re-configuration of advanced search using a filter mark-up Preview plug-ins: allows developers to author their [...]

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Cloud Computing World Forum 2012 – Early-Bird Discounts Available

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:30:21 +0000

The organisers of the 4th Annual Cloud Computing Forum, which will be held at Earls Court in London, UK next June, are now offering early-bird discounts on Gold and Gold + passes for the 2012 show. The highest attended cloud event in Europe, CCWF attracts some of the biggest names in the industry and covers topics from cloud in the enterprise to the mobile cloud, [...]

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Vyre Announce Unify 4.6.2 Release

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:40 +0000

Marketing automation provider, Vyre, have recently announced the 4.6.2 release of their Unify platform. The release includes enhanced statistics and reporting, protected content sharing, web-to-print and support for ReCAPTCHA. “VYRE Unify 4.6.2 is a new major version release of VYRE’s marketing automation platform. This release includes greater search recording capabilities that form the foundation of [...]

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Open Data Movement A Growing Success

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:00:21 +0000

In this article, semantic web software engineer and CEO of Smartetics, Davide Palmisano, explores the impact that the open data movement has had on the growth of open online data resources worldwide. “More than two years after President Obama’s memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands of public authorities and organizations worldwide have embraced the [...]

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