Category: Vendors

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Canto, have upgraded their Cumulus DAM system to version 9.02.  The new features are:

• View and manage all relationships between files
• Metadata entry templates (defining sets of default values)
• Updated UI design
• Toolbox UI controlled by permissions

The full details (with some …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Asset Bank, presented some new features they added to their DAM solution during December 2013  on their blog.  The upgrades are:

• Zoom feature.
• Bulk update from search results.
• Additional reporting (new users plus asset usage requests).
• Email functionality to send lightboxes

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have announced an upgrade to their SmartImage simplified DAM platform.  Their marketing manager, Jake Athey, offered this:

“The flexibility and simplicity we’ve built into the product allows you to offer a unique viewing experience and user-friendly access to brand assets. …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, celum, have announced an Add-On for the Web Content Management (WCM) system, EPiServer.  This is from Harald Haghofer, Chief Services Officer:

“Central management of content used in numerous systems gets more and more important. Data Flow starting from the photographer, acceptance …

Two of our featured DAM vendors, SDL and North Plains, have announced a strategic partnership where SDL will resell North Plains various Digital Asset Management solutions along with their range of WCM and translation products.  The ‘boss quote’ from SDL CEO, Mark Lancaster, has unfortunately let the side down …

DAM vendor, Extensis (one of the few who have yet to finalise a damvendors.com profile) have announced Flow, a mobile application that integrates with their Portfolio Server DAM system.  Here is the ‘boss quote’ from Chad Slater, Director of Engineering at Extensis:

“Extensis worked in concert with our …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark announced last week that they have begun offering ‘regional cloud’ deployments of their DAM solution.  These are true locally operated DAM SaaS implementations rather than just being single customer instances hosted in a local data centre.  This is the quote from Ramon …

On Friday, one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, announced Workflow 2.0 (which is an actual upgrade from 1.0, rather than a marketing play on words).  ADAM are are firmly in the  Microsoft camp so their workflow solution uses Visio to allow users to employ visual tools to …

I gather from some of our readers that today is what they colloquially refer to as refer to as “Black Friday” and stores or other retail outlets are known to discount some items in acknowledgement.

As such, in the same spirit, I would like to draw your attention to the …

UK DAM vendor, Bright Interactive, who develop the Asset Bank system have announced a new service called Crowd Feature.  This is a website that allows their users to pledge funds for new features in order to split the cost.  Asset Bank also envisage Crowd Feature being used by …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released version 7.0 of their DAM system, Media Collective.  The key new features are as follows:

• WordPress and Drupal integration.
• iOS and Android mobile interfaces.
• Amazon Glacier interaction (Glacier is a cloud storage and archival system which is designed

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Daminion Software, have released version 2.0 of their desktop client/server DAM system of the same name.  The new features include:

• Improved export (no longer strips metadata and a preset editor)
• Administrator control over import settings
• Dropbox integration
• Export metadata to CSV

There …