Category: Open Source

One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have developed a series of app that are designed to run on top of their TACTIC DAM platform.  The three apps are:

• VFX App – a specialist workflow tool for visual effects studios
• aSync – synchronisation of multiple

.NET open source DAM vendor, FocusOPEN Software have released an updated version 3.4.7 of their DAM system of the same name.  The upgrade is a point release and looks more maintenance oriented, with few noteworthy items.  There is no ‘boss quote’ for me to pass comment on, nor even a …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technologies have announced an updated edition of their open source DAM solution, TACTIC.  The new features include:

• Support for noSQL database: MongoDB
• Perforce integration: Perforce is is a software configuration management system
• Drag and drop upload from file system
• Automated messaging

French open source DAM vendor, Alchemy, have upgraded their DAM solution, Phraseanet to version 3.8.  The new features include:

• A new login/authentication page
• Third party authentication with Google+, Viadeo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub
• Stemming support
• Sphinx Search engine support stabilised
• New database administration interface
• Various administrator and

Open source DAM vendor, Razuna, released version 1.6 of their DAM solution yesterday.  They claim 400 updates in this release, although it must be said, we have noted a tendency for this specific vendor to possibly exaggerate their numerical data with reference to download or user volumes in …

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 …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw, who are better known by the name of their flagship system, TACTIC, have released version 4.0 of their open source DAM solution.  The new features include:

• Updated Data Connection Technology
• New Plugin Architecture
• HTML5 Themes

This quote from CEO, Gary …

One of our featured DAM vendors, FocusOPEN, have released version 3.4.5 of their flagship open source DAM system.  The point release has a few new features which caught my attention:

• User group metadata
• Asset metadata export
• Google maps links in images (presumably using the longitude and latitude

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 …

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:

• Custom Data Management Solution – allows TACTIC

One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Razuna, have announced the release of an enterprise edition of their flagship DAM system of the same name:

“Following the successful launch of version 1.5 of the company’s digital asset management software, Razuna now announces the availability of Razuna …