Flexera Software and IDC released a survey last week that revealed an ongoing gap between the perception of value between vendors and enterprises:
“The survey confirms a perception gap in the value of software that could explain some of the contentiousness between producers and their enterprise customers,” said Steve …
Continue reading »Lorraine Lawson, writing on IT Business Edge discusses how APIs have business implications and are therefore now very much management issues as much as ones for developers only:
“APIs can be used as a business strategy. APIs can allow you to connect with customers or partners in new ways, …
Continue reading »John Horodyski of DAM Education has written an introductory article about metadata for CMSWire. The level is relatively basic and maybe more suitable as an executive overview than for anyone who has done the rounds with a typical DAM implementation, however, the second page has some useful pointers about …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, WoodWing who recently acquired fellow Dutch DAM vendor Elvis have announced an updated version 3.6 of Elvis DAM. The main new features are:
In this special feature written by both myself and Ralph Windsor, we analyse a concept we are calling the Digital Asset Management Value Chain. We believe this will shape the future direction of the DAM sector and may address a number of the structural inefficiencies that we believe currently …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart are hosting a free webinar on 17th January at 5pm GMT (9am PST, 12pm ET) about the application of DAM to the healthcare sector. The event is being chaired by David Lipsey of Optimity Advisers:
” ‘Recent healthcare legislation means there are many new healthcare consumers shopping …
Continue reading »Lucy Lincoln, Henry Stewart’s Communications Executive has sent us details of their New York conference to be held on May 2nd-3rd 2013 in New York City. They plan to cover:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have announced that they also have integrated their Media Collective SaaS DAM system with the ConceptShare creative review tools for annotating artwork:
“Users of the integration can send any asset to ConceptShare from Widen Media Collective’s asset details page. Once …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have recently updated their own Telescope DAM system and also Xinet who they acquired earlier this year. The stand out features from the Xinet update are:
One of our Open Source Digital Asset Management vendors, FocusOPEN, have released version 3.4.4 of their flagship product. In common with many of these developer oriented DAM systems, there is lots of detail about new features, but very little narrative. To be fair, I complained about the opposite with …
Continue reading »Matthew Gonnering, CEO of DAM vendor, Widen has written an article for VentureBeat.com called Why there’s radical change ahead for the digital asset management industry:
“The increased demand for digital assets occurs in tandem with the rise of multiple content distribution channels. Social, web and mobile channels intensify …
Continue reading »North Plains, have announced today that they have acquired UK based vendor, VYRE:
“This acquisition continues our rigorous focus on enabling North Plains customers to better connect and engage with their target audience by unleashing the power of their visual media,” said James Christopher, President and CEO, …
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