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

January 13, 2012 Industry Events

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

January 10, 2012 Opinion

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

January 4, 2012 Opinion

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

January 3, 2012 Opinion

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

December 23, 2011 Sharepoint

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

December 23, 2011 Taxonomy And Metadata

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

December 20, 2011 Opinion

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

December 20, 2011 Vendors

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?

December 16, 2011 Opinion

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?

December 14, 2011 Taxonomy And Metadata

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

December 14, 2011 Vendors

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.

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