Category: Vendors

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Asset Bank (who are owned by UK firm, Bright Interactive) have announced some new features for their DAM system in their October release:

• Embed slideshows using HTML5 code snippets
• Duplicate checking using perceptual hashes
• Improved asset selection options for news and home page

One of our featured DAM Vendors, WebDAM Solutions, have announced details of an iOS (iPhone and iPad) client for their SaaS DAM system:

“Supporting the rapid adoption of mobile devices in enterprise work environments, teams will never be disconnected from marketing files and workflows again. From the …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, today launched version 6 of their flagship brand management oriented DAM solution.  The update is entirely about usability enhancements and mobile device support, hence the quip about how they ‘proudly announce no new features’ in their PR.  There are a …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains have released an updated edition of Xinet 17.6.  The new features are somewhat light:

• Archive aware API that will enable integration between Xinet and third party archival solutions
• Xinet Pilot “which enhances and expands asset browsing functionality so designers and artists

Another week in Digital Asset Management, another partnership between an ancillary vendor and DAM system OEM.  This time it’s North Plains (who are about the closest the DAM industry gets to ‘large’ currently in terms of the pure players) and Equilibrium who develop media processing servers.   NP have got their …

ECM mega-vendor, OpenText have announced a partnership with ExactTarget (who are owned by SalesForce).  The PR is typically sketchy, but the basics seems to be that it’s a way for ExactTarget to access repositories of digital assets and use them to deliver content to different segments.  This quote seems to …

My co-contributor has dealt more than I have with the subject of DAM ROI illustrations that sections of the industry insist on pedalling to end-users.  When vendors reach a certain size, they get new marketing people involved who (unless they are from a DAM background) often don’t understand the …

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” …

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 …

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 …

Open source DAM vendor, FocusOPEN Software, have  released version 3.4.6 of their Digital Asset Manager product.  The new features are:

• Batch append or replace
• Text replace
• Advanced filtering
• Metadata export supports Unicode and UTF-8
• New import features
• Updated filtering

FocusOPEN target their product at sys admins and software …

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, …