Open Text announced today plans to acquire fellow Canadian digital content management vendor, Nstein Technologies Inc. The deal, valued at approximately CND $35 million, is expected to close in the second calendar quarter.
“‘This agreement helps Nstein take its next major step into the future,’ said Luc Filiatreault, President and …
Continue reading »Matthew Gonnering looks at the benefits that digital asset management can bring an organisation and the need to select a system that provides the level of control that your organisation requires.
“In the midst of a digital asset management breakdown, you may wonder why you went to a DAM system …
Continue reading »In a recent poll conducted by CMS Wire, usability was rated the top challenge in digital asset management. This article discusses why usability is such a key concern for DAM and how to overcome it.
“Now maybe you are sitting back asking just how complicated can a digital asset …
Continue reading »Open Text announced today that it will be extending its already long term reseller collaboration with SAP by adding digital asset management solutions to the range of Open Text products resold under the SAP brand.
“Open Text DAM for SAP, one of the components of the Open Text ECM Suite, …
Continue reading »Today, 16th Feb 2010 at 1pm (EST), Earley Associates are holding a webinar about optimising the quality of results obtained from companies that use the Google Search Appliance. Speakers include Toby Conrad from Smartlogic and Jim Orris of Adhere Solutions.
Subjects covered will include:
The Createasphere Digital Asset Management Conference runs from 17th – 18th February this week at Universal City in Hollywood. This event is dedicated to the uses of DAM in the entertainment and media sectors.
Speakers include Peter Krogh (author of the The DAM Book), Garret Smith of Paramount Pictures, …
Continue reading »Content Management Integration Services (CMIS) is rapidly becoming a hot topic in both DAM and ECM. When released earlier this year, Open Source vendor, Nuxeo made a point of their solution’s CMIS compliance.
CMIS aims to provide integration across ECM solutions by enabling data movement between CMIS compliant systems …
Continue reading »AMR Research and WCM vendor Sitecore, will present a webinar entitled, “Beyond Web Content Management: 4 Essential Strategies for Advancing Your Website’s Business Impact” on 17th Feburary 2010 at 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST. The webinar, which is free to attend, will look at trends and technologies that will …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced support for version control for assets which will allow users of their S3 Cloud based storage facility to retrieve overwritten or deleted files.
Versioning provides an additional layer of protection for your S3 objects. You can easily recover from unintended user errors …
Continue reading »Document management vendor, KnowledgeTree, recently announced a deal with Tech Data to distribute their open source software via Tech Data’s Open Tech channel. The Open Tech channel is designed to support ISVs like KnowledgeTree by enabling them to reach a wider global market.
” Interest in open source will continue …
Continue reading »Jeremy Wilker of TWEAKDigital outlines the hidden costs of DAM system in this article. In summary, he assess 6 areas
The point relating to Quality is very relevant and a number of industry commentators have also been drawing attention to the …
Continue reading »Extensis, in collaboration with advertising agency Dalziel and Pow, will present a session at this year’s Technology For Marketing & Advertising 2010 trade show. The session, entitled, “Dalziel and Pow’s deployment of Extensis Portfolio Server; a powerful solution for efficiently tracking, accessing and sharing digital marketing assets,” will focus on …
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