Joshua Duhl from one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains has written a great summary of the thirteen areas of cost of DAM systems. The article is well written and refreshingly spin-free for a vendor authored piece. The cost items discussed include:
More evidence of Enterprise and Cloud vendors getting friendly is the recent partnership between Box.net and EMC announced yesterday at EMC world. Given that Box.net recently managed to secure the services of former EMC CMO, Whitney Tidmarsh, this looks a lot like defensive manoeuvring on the part of EMC who …
Continue reading »San Francisco based vendor, Stipple have introduced a range of products to help connect photo buyers and sellers by automating the tagging and monetization process. They offer four integrated tools for photo rights holders, brands, publishers and consumers:
Vendor WebDAM Soutions describe the three main types of asset distribution methods available on a typical DAM system in this article on their blog:
“…digital media distribution is a …
Continue reading »Web Content Management (WCM) and translation technology vendor, SDL has acquired DAM SaaS provider, Calamares:
“With the acquisition of Calamares, SDL extends its customer engagement offering to include video and rich media management. The Calamares media management and enrichment solution will be fully and seamlessly integrated into SDL’s Global …
Continue reading »DAM events specialist, Createasphere, host an even on “Going Public With Open Source” where Barbara Taranto, Strategic Projects Manager of the New York Public Library explains the challenges faced by the New York Public Library (NYPL) when they used open source technologies to establish their digital collection:
“NYPL …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains has announced that it has integrated a range of partner solutions and services into its flagship TeleScope DAM platform. The partners and associated solutions/services include:
The investment site, The Motley Fool, has tipped Czech Digital Asset Management vendor KIT Digital as a stock to watch noting that the Video Asset Management sector is a growth area as more companies outsource their video content management facilities:
“It’s a simple thesis, really. Video content is going …
Continue reading »As most readers will be aware, last week Amazon’s AWS Cloud service had a major outage that affected a number of popular websites and services. There has been no shortage of comment from the mainstream media, websites and blogs. A number of DAM vendors (both pure play Cloud offerings and …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper, ‘Digital Asset Management Hosting For Marketing Managers’ that examines whether a DAM system should be hosted internally on the business’ own hosting equipment or if it should be out-sourced to the system vendor (or a partner supplier). The report offers a number …
Continue reading »In this BBC Internet blog article, Mo McRoberts reflects on a recent speech by the BBC’s Director of Future Media, Ralph Rivera, regarding the ways the British broadcaster is seeking to get the maximum value from its media archive and its position in the ‘digital public space’.
“The Semantic Web …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Celum, will open a new research and development centre in Linz, Austria on 17th May 2011.
“The new R&D Center, ARK 1 is located in the Linzer green belt. The architecture firm Schauer designed an ultra-low energy building with space for up to …
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