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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »Createasphere have announced that entries are open for their 3rd annual DAMMY awards. The award categories are:
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. …
Continue reading »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 …
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