David Diamond, Marketing Director for Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: It’s Time to Kill the Competition. The basis of the article is what we have discussed on DAM News quite a lot, that vendors spend too much time copying each …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technology announced yesterday that they have made their TACTIC Open Source Digital Asset Management solution available via the Amazon AWS market place. This is the quote from Southpaw boss, Gary Mundell:
“TACTIC has always been available via browsers as an internally …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, published a series of resources about enterprise marketing software earlier this month. They refer to them as ‘Propositions’ rather than whitepapers, but that is essentially what they are. These days, ADAM prefer to call themselves as an “Enterprise Marketing Software Developer” …
Continue reading »Following last week’s discussion about more DAM vendors either bringing out ‘lite’ versions of their products or asset portal add-ons designed to provide some simpler methods to gain access to assets, yesterday, one our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, announced a new feature called “Ports” to their DAM …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, released SmartImage 2.0 earlier this week. This is a kind ‘DAM Lite’ which is aimed at users who need a less sophisticated solution than a full Digital Asset Management product with a learning curve that is not as steep. The main …
Continue reading »DAM integrator, IO Integration are hosting a webinar about ‘Aproove’ – an approvals and collaboration tool they resell (and presumably integrate with the other DAM solutions they offer). The webinar sounds like a general introduction:
“Ideal for agencies, brand managers, marketing departments, and printers as well as centralized service …
Continue reading »Jeff Lawrence, of consultants, Celerity who we featured in June has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Asset Management: Finding the Right Fit for Your Company. The item is an introductory primer on the various factors you will need to think about, including:
Over the last few months we have been looking at the flawed nature of classic ROI calculations as applied to DAM and how these nearly always contain misconceptions embedded within the calculations which can invalidate the conclusions of any study. A few people have contacted me about these articles and …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have recently re-vamped their website and added a number of information oriented articles. We have fairly robust editorial guidelines (as some might have noticed!) and covering website revamps would typically get filed under the ‘no chance’ classification. What they have done, …
Continue reading ».NET tool vendor, Telerik yesterday announced the release of a new 6.1 edition of their WCM platform, Sitefinity with Digital Asset Management capabilities added:
“Analysts are seeing a nearly 60 percent year-over-year increase in DAM-related client inquiries. These users require the ability to quickly and easily do their job, …
Continue reading »DAM SaaS vendor, WebDAM solutions, have announced an updated version of their platform with a particular focus on the User Interface – or ‘User Experience’ as these things now get referred to. The stand-out items are:
WoodWing Software have released an updated version 4.1 of the Elvis DAM system they acquired last year. The key features seem to be:
The update doesn’t sound much, but while the three bullet points given …
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