This post by Chirag Mehta discussed the role of Gamification with special reference to enterprise applications. For those who has unfamiliar with the term, Gamification means the application of gaming techniques to create more engaging user experiences. Chirag argues (correctly in my view) that flow and a simple, uninterrupted user …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions have written an article: The Battle Between Cloud & On-Premise: 5 Things to Consider. The 5 points raised are:
Metadata guru, David Riecks, whose Controlled Vocabulary site and associated Yahoo group is often featured on DAM News has written an article: The Building Blocks of DAM. He outlines six major areas that are common to nearly all DAM systems and also some that are not. These include:
Publisher O’Reilly are hosting their 2013 ‘Tools of Change conference in NYC between 12th and 14th February. The event covers five major themes:
“This unique, full-day event is oriented …
Continue reading »DAM conferences organise, Henry Stewart are hosting a free webinar about the challenges of using DAM for creative ‘work in progress’ on 6th December at : 9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm UK, or 6pm Europe (note to other webinar organisers: this is the optimum time slot to get a full …
Continue reading »One of our featured Open Source DAM vendors, Canadian company, Southpaw Technology, developers of the TACTIC Open Source DAM system have released Southpaw Solutions. This appears to be a series of add-ons built on top of their platform. They include:
One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released an updated edition of their Teamwork artwork annotation tool. The new features include:
Integration has been discussed quite a lot on DAM News before. This article by William Vambenepe describes how integration will be an important competitive battleground as more traditional larger enterprise application vendors need to replace their on-premise based integration components with ones that can work on a Cloud platform:…
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Asset Bank have written a blog post: The life of a digital asset
“Follow the story from photography of an image, application of the photographer’s metadata, purchase and upload into a Digital Asset Management system. See how it is licensed, managed and …
Continue reading »ICS Solutions are offering seminars on the new SharePoint 2013 edition next month. The events are being held on 4th December 2012 at Microsoft’s offices in Reading (United Kingdom)
“We’ll explore the features and benefits of the platform through in-depth discussions, demonstrations and usage scenarios. We’ll help you plan …
Continue reading »Last week, I was fairly disparaging about ADAM owned publishing software vendor, Van Gennep and their press release about PublishingNOW! 1.2. The copy made it sound more like they were planning to blow up a roundabout near the offices of some publishing company rather than release an updated version …
Continue reading »On Fierce Content Management, Ron Miller speculates that Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is more of a name than a real solution:
“I’ve been thinking lately that no company can truly claim to be an enterprise content management vendor because there are so many types of content out there …
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