Category: Vendors

.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, …

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:

• HTML5 & JQuery admin interface with drag & drop features – what sounds

WoodWing Software have released an updated version 4.1 of the Elvis DAM system they acquired last year.  The key features seem to be:

• Distributed storage
• Linux server support
• Support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Korean

The update doesn’t sound much, but while the three bullet points given …

Last week, we soft-launched a completely revised Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory.  This is replacing our existing simplistic A-Z list, which with close to 90 entries had grown rather unwieldy.  I am pleased to report that our new directory is now fully live.

On the new DAMVendors.com site, you …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Russia-based Daminion, have released version 1.0 of their flagship workgroup DAM.  The main new features are:

• User roles
• Auto-sync folders to monitor for changes and update without user intervention
• Improved RAW image handling (faster imports and more versatile colour management)
• New tags

One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo have released a major update to their open source platform.  The update includes:

• Re-factored user interface for the DAM module
• Improvements for Nuxeo Drive
• Enhanced user experience
• Full OSGi compliance for the Content Automation client
• New authentication plug-ins

They have released this …

One of our featured DAM vendors, celum, have released a new version of their DAM system, IMAGINE.  This release, 2013.3 includes the following updates:

• SE version (essentially a ‘lite’ edition of the enterprise product)
• New look and feel
• Social media content management for controlling distribution to social media

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have released version 6.4 of their Media Collective DAM solution.  The new features are:

• Dropbox integration
• Support for writing embedded metadata in IPTC and XMP format
• InDesign file previews
• HTML5 browser upload (to replace the previous Java based upload feature)
• Search

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz have upgraded their Digital Asset Management system of the same name to 5.1.2.  The key new features include:

• Integration of ‘Showcase’ – which appears to be a kind of collaborative brand portal with some social media elements, blogging and the ability to

In addition to our own whitepapers which we featured earlier this week, there have been a few others published.  In the interests of balance, we’ll cover two from different vendors: Picturepark and Extensis.

The Picturepark “Enterprise DAM Checklist” is fairly comprehensive and covers a lot of ground, including:

• Using

One of our featured DAM vendors, evolphin, announced an update to their product, Zoom.  The new features are centred around workflow and automation in particular:

• “Auto task” feature (which sounds like what some might refer to as ‘triggers’ or ‘hooks’) where jobs like asset manipulation, email notifications can

One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, have released version 5 of their core DAM offering.  As seems to be a common theme with their press, finding out what is new is a linguistic challenge in itself, but this seems to be the summary:

• Ability to sync distributed