Digital Asset Management News

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

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:40:09 +0000

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)

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:28:19 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:29:02 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:01:17 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:29:59 +0000

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?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:16:01 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:40:40 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:21:36 +0000

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

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:54:53 +0000

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?

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:04:59 +0000

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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Digital Asset Management: An Overview For IT Managers

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:35:31 +0000

Rick Cook writing on the HP sponsored Input/Output blog does a good job of explaining the basics of DAM from the perspective of IT managers. The article, titled, It’s In Here SOMEplace: Digital Asset Management For IT is at an introductory level, so it does gloss over a certain amount of more in-depth detail, however, it covers the [...]

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VSN Updates VSNARCHIVE 5

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:02:45 +0000

VSN, one of our new featured DAM vendors (although one could argue you should call them MAM vendors :) have released an updated edition of their VSNARCHIVE system. Being more MAM-centric it appears more suitable for broadcast use, which is presumably why they’ve gone for a launch to coincide with NAB in Las Vegas. Here is an excerpt [...]

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DAM vs CXM: Time For New Terminology?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:14:05 +0000

Over on CMSWire.com this month they are running a series of articles about Digital Asset Management. This one was of some interest to me (after the post a few weeks ago about the lack of formalisation of the term: “Digital Asset Management”). Anjali Yakkundi discusses why CXM (Customer Experience Management) would be a better term [...]

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North Plains Acquires Xinet

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:03:09 +0000

DAM vendor consolidation at the enterprise end of the market continues with today’s announcement from one of our featured vendors, North Plains that they are acquiring competitor, Xinet: “Through this acquisition, North Plains leverages Xinet’s best-in-class technology for file-based management of WIP assets as well as its success serving departments and creative work groups, and its [...]

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Createasphere Announces 3rd Annual DAMMY Awards

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:18:58 +0000

Createasphere have announced that entries are open for their 3rd annual DAMMY awards. The award categories are: Best Storage, Archive, and/or Preservation Solution Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management during the Acquisition of Content Best Example of Asset & Media Re-purposing Best Strategy Ease of Use for End-User Interface DAMMY of the Year The [...]

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Amazon Announce “CloudSearch”

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:05:34 +0000

We’ve done the topic of Amazon’s development of core DAM services to death in various previous posts. The latest update “CloudSearch” is further encroachment by Amazon on the services which many of their customers are already offering: “Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed search service in the cloud. You can set it up and start [...]

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Big User Behaviour Data: DAM’s Only Remaining Business Model?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:05:46 +0000

This Forbes article by Shomit Ghose discusses how ‘Big Data’ might become the only viable business model left for tech entrepreneurs as the commoditisation of software and hardware progresses. Ghose uses physics analogies to explain his point and the conclusions are difficult to argue with: “So if maximum entropy has made hardware, software and networks [...]

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Digital Asset Management Definitions: Time For The Terminology To Be Formalised?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:12:56 +0000

Writing last week on the Real Story Group blog, Kashyap Kompella considers the difference between MAM (Media Asset Management) and DAM (Digital Asset Management). He proposes this definition: “To keep things straight, let me clarify the terminology a bit here. Broadly speaking, we refer to digital asset management (DAM) solutions when talking about general purpose software [...]

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Photo Metadata Conference, 17 May 2012, London (UK)

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:24 +0000

The Photo Metadata Conference is being held in conjunction with the CEPIC conference in East London (UK) on 17th May 2012. The event costs 120 UK Pounds and will cover both applying metadata to help photos get found in searches and a rights presentation on preventing images from becoming ‘orphaned works’ (i.e. where the copyright [...]

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Cross Media World 2012, 3-4 September 2012, London, UK

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:33:14 +0000

The Cross Media World Expo takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London (UK) between September 3rd – 4th. The event is targeted at print-focussed marketers but covers a wide range of other technologies also, including digital asset management: “Cross Media 2012 is a brand new, highly relevant and focused event that brings [...]

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Digital Asset Management World Summit: 26-27 June 2012, The Okura, Amsterdam

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:52:26 +0000

Another DAM-specific conference, the ambitiously titled “Digital Asset Management World Summit” takes place in Amsterdam this June on 26-27th June this year (2012). The key issues to be addressed are described as: “IP Based workflows, rights and royalties of digital assets, workflow in the cloud, business process management, collaborative broadcast infrastructure products, digital file optimization, the [...]

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The Evolution Of DAM Into Digital Asset Production

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:25:19 +0000

We missed this blog post last week from one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM. It covers a number of themes we have described in our predictions for the Digital Asset Management sector, in particular the transformation of DAM systems from being merely libraries of content to active ‘media hubs’ that most end users may [...]

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WebDAM Solutions Launch “DAM Success”

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:33:20 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions have launched DAMSuccess.com: “DAMSuccess.com is a premium website offering a wide range of educational resources for marketing and creative teams, including free video webinars, best practices and templates, digital asset management trends and an interactive DAM Answers forum. Most notably, DAMSuccess.com provides people with an exciting new [...]

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Creative Cloud: Adobe Signal Their DAM Intentions But Is It Too Little, Too Late?

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:54:18 +0000

At the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit which is taking place currently, Adobe have demonstrated their “Creative Cloud” solution: “Adobe Creative Cloud is a creative hub where you can explore, create, publish, and share your work using Adobe Creative Suite desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and services together for a complete ideation-to-publishing experience. The vision of [...]

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Video DAM Webinar: 4th April, 12pm (CST)

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:34:45 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, are running a webinar devoted to Video DAM on 4th April 2012 at 12pm US Central Standard Time (CST). The presentation will be lead by their in-house video expert, Al Falaschi and (wisely on this occasion) it sounds like the Widen sales/marketing people will take a back seat [...]

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Latakoo Integrates With Box

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:05:15 +0000

Last month, we reported that one of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions had integrated with Box.net. Yesterday, Latakoo, a Cloud video management provider announced they have done the same. The press release is sketchy on detail (as they have maybe also grasped that most vendor partnership press releases compete with as paint-drying as a [...]

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OpenText Managed File Exchange

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:43:48 +0000

Enterprise ECM vendor, OpenText have launched “Managed File Exchange”. This follows their release of Tempo Express earlier this month. Essentially, the system is more secure form of FTP that intercedes to help end users work around the 10MB attachment limit that they might encounter when using a typical email system or some potentially risky external [...]

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Introduction To WebID

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:04:46 +0000

Last week, we discussed how Amazon were moving in on Cloud ISV’s territory by developing commodity building block services that could be re-used more easily by those without the inclination or budget to make the required capital investment into developing these features themselves. We proposed that something that might slow down their progress towards world [...]

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Entermedia Add Categories And Batch Editing

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:05:01 +0000

One of our featured Open Source DAM Vendors, Entermedia, have released an updated edition of their flagship DAM system with a bulk editing and categories feature now included: “The developers at EnterMedia digital asset management have built two new features that will help simplify the metadata management process and streamline advanced searching. This week we [...]

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Online Video Platform Buyer’s Guide & Enterprise Video Streaming Pitfalls

Naresh Sarwan — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:45:15 +0000

Onlinevideo.net has a buyer’s guide to Online Video Platforms (OVPs). The distinction between OVPs and DAM systems is a pretty fine one if your candidate DAM is anything but a low-end commodity solution, however, the considerations described in this article are still fairly important for anyone who will deal with a significant amount of video. [...]

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Amazon Add Access Management Services To AWS

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:03:22 +0000

If anyone in the software applications business (DAM vendors included) still doubts that AWS are moving in on their patch by providing building block services for integrators to implement, then this tutorial from Amazon about their new AWS Identity and Access Management should remove them: “In this blog post, we will walk you through an [...]

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OpenText Add Tempo Express: Further Integration Between Enterprise Content And The Cloud

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:16:37 +0000

ECM vendor, OpenText, have announced the release of ‘Tempo Express’ which are designed to improve integration between the enterprise content that typically gets managed by systems OpenText provide and Cloud services: “With OpenText Tempo and Tempo Express Edition, organizations maintain absolute control over their content. For users, the experience and functionality is similar to popular [...]

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Why Your DAM System Needs An API: Opportunities And Risks

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:26:12 +0000

APIs seem to be the fashionable must-have accessory for many DAM systems currently (not before time many of their end users might be tempted to remark). This CMSWire.com article was written by Edward Smith, one of the better writers about Digital Asset Management in our view. Edward assesses why APIs are important in a fairly [...]

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Getty Introduce Connect API: Another Key Protocol For DAM Vendors To Integrate With?

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:44:59 +0000

Stock media leviathan, Getty Images have recently announced the release of their ‘Connect’ API. This allows users to search their vast repository of content and integrate it with their own systems: “Our set of APIs provides direct access to millions of images and hundreds of thousands of videos across our collections and brands. In addition, you [...]

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Box And WebDAM Solutions Announce “Technology Integration”

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:10:57 +0000

As a general rule we don’t often post articles about vendor partnerships as they’re usually very boring and of little interest to anyone apart from the parties involved (even that might be stretching it a bit in a number of cases, I suspect). This announcement from one of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM solutions is [...]

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Extensis Add API To Portfolio Server

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:54:57 +0000

One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, Extensis, have added an API to their Portfolio Server DAM system: “Portfolio Server helps groups of people manage and find all of their digital media in one location, and the new API offers the same benefits – but to other computer systems used throughout the organization. Customers [...]

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ADAM Launch Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Connector

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:36:55 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have launched a connector for Adobe Creative Suite 5.5: “With Creative Suite Connector 3.0, users of Adobe®’s design tools no longer need to leave the comfort zone of the tools they know best in order to exploit the power of ADAM’s DAM system. All the tools users need [...]

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Brandworkz 5.0 Launched

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:33:51 +0000

One of our featured vendors, Brandworkz, have released version 5.0 of their DAM platform. The new features include: Web-to-Print with Adobe InDesign Workflow & Approval Document Tracking Alerts “Brandworkz 5.0 has been developed to give marketing and brand managers the best suite of tools available to improve brand management and grow their brands. Brand consistency [...]

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Idomoo Personalised VaaS Platform Launches

Naresh Sarwan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:26:26 +0000

Israeli vendor, Idomoo launched last week and offers a personalised Video as a Service (VaaS) platform that can be adapted to each individual viewer “Idomoo automatically generates any number of highly personalized videos. Personal customer data from standard CRM systems or databases is integrated into a pre-produced master video template. Then each personalized video is [...]

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Widen Release Version 6 Of Media Collective

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, released version 6 of their ‘Media Collective’ DAM solution today. The highlight features include: Expiring media embed codes Publishing to social media sites like YouTube, Flickr as well Twitter and Facebook Watched assets (monitoring activity such as editing metadata) Streamlined metadata entry Multiple asset searches “Being able to [...]

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Amazon Simplified Workflow Service: Useful DAM Building Block Or Cloud Provider Preparing To Eat DAM Vendors’ Lunches?

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:01:26 +0000

Amazon today reported that they have introduced SWF, which despite the TLA doesn’t have anything to do with Flash but means ‘Simplified Workflow Service‘. The facility is available through their Cloud API and allows application developers to track various workflow states: “Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. [...]

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DAM In The Context Of Content Choreography Webinar, 21st March 2012, 1pm ET

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:47:54 +0000

Earley Associates have announced a one off webinar: “DAM and The Art of Content Choreography“. The event will feature Seth Maislin and Dan Taylor (both from Earley). If you’re nervously unsure about what exactly ‘Content Choreography’ means, this Earley article explains: “We like Content Choreography because it resonates. It conjures up mental images of what you’re [...]

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Speed Up Social Marketing With DAM

Naresh Sarwan — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:37 +0000

An interesting article co-written by Nicolas Jimenez at Adotas and Widen‘s Jake Athey, that examines how digital asset management can be used by marketers to significantly reduce the time taken to publish media for their social marketing campaigns. ” Perhaps the clunkiest, most time-consuming part of social media marketing is managing digital assets (images, videos, documents, etc.) and [...]

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Digital media ‘crucial for consumer brands’ in UAE

Naresh Sarwan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:00:12 +0000

With UAE residents spending at least 15 hours a week online, Steve Hamilton-Clark, CEO of TNS Mena, outlines how digital media is becoming a critical concern for brands in the Emirates. “It is not simply about being good at digital marketing. It is about the success of the whole business in a world that looks [...]

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Getting Down To Semantics

Naresh Sarwan — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:30:02 +0000

Dr James Hendler explores the basic concepts of the semantic web and the role of Indian tech companies in its future, at the Annual Techno-Management festival of IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal. “A ‘Semantic Web’ involves computers being “capable of analysing all the data on the Web – the content, links, transactions between people and computers.” This idea was laid down by one [...]

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Better Metadata For Better Government

Nick Brookes — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:55:13 +0000

In this article, Michael Daconta at Government Computer News, discusses how well structured and considered metadata can improve the mechanisms of government and therefore better protect consumers and citizens. “The key to metadata design is developing the best descriptive fields that increase the usage value of the data to the end user. By usage value, I [...]

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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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