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VSN Updates VSNARCHIVE 5

April 19, 2012 Vendors

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?

April 19, 2012 Digital Asset Management Definitions

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

April 12, 2012 Vendors

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

April 12, 2012 Industry News

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”

April 12, 2012 Cloud Computing

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?

April 11, 2012 Opinion

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?

April 5, 2012 Digital Asset Management Definitions

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)

March 30, 2012 Industry Events

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

March 30, 2012 Industry Events

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

March 29, 2012 Industry Events

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

March 28, 2012 Vendors

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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