Category: Vendors

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have added two features they call “Web-To-Digital” and “Web-To-Mobile”.  They appear to be automated derivative (or surrogate) asset generation capabilities.  This from the digital one:

“Marketers responsible for digital marketing specifically have access to the web-to-digital feature which generates digital …

One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Razuna, have released version 1.6 of their flagship open source DAM system.  The key updates are:

• Workflow*
• White label branding
• Akamai support
• Rendition Templates
• Metadata Form
• Custom Metadata Fields

* The Razuna definition of workflow sounds more like hooks …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion Software, have recently announced an upgrade to their Daminion Server. The latest update enables users to stamp images with Geo coordinates and also provides a new “Compact View” mode, which allows more thumbnails to be displayed on the screen, in addition …

One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released PIMS 3.2, their Product Information Management module.  The features seem to be as follows:

• All product information is integrated at both product management and marketing levels in a centralised database.
• Simplified management of product related assets from PIMS itself

One of our featured DAM Vendors, WoodWing, have released version 4.0 of the Elvis DAM solution.  The three main upgrades seem to be:

• Tighter integration with Content Station, WoodWing’s Flex based content creation and publication platform
• Upgrades to the core Lucene search engine to enable faster performance
• Linux

One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis released Portfolio Server 11 today.  The main new features are:

• A web client that can be re-branded
• Customisable interface
• Active Directory integration
• Support for AWS and VMWare installations
• Drag and drop support (via the desktop client)
• Support for Camera Raw files
• IPTC

One of our featured DAM vendors, WoodWing, who recently acquired Elvis DAM last year, have updated their publishing system, Enterprise.  The main updates seem to be:

• Closer integration with Excel to insert tabular data into InDesign documents
• Tighter integration with Elvis DAM
• Usability enhancements like additional keyboard shortcuts

Earlier this week, Adobe released Adobe Experience Manager which also included their Digital Asset Management offering (which appears to be the Scene 7 product they bought back in 2007).

There is a data sheet about it with some more useful detail than the analyst fluff they have filled out the …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark have released version 8.4 of their Digital Asset Management solution.  The main new features include:

• Adaptive metadata
• Centralised Control Vocabulary
• Updated dashboard with social media features
• Live collections
• More versatile asset subscription notifications
• Updated search interfaces
• Enhanced API

We are spared the …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have announced an update to version 6.3 of their Media Collective SaaS DAM system.  The new features include:

• Enhanced Batch Editing
• Comments
• Asset Ratings
• Redesigned Search Results
• Enhanced Alerts and Email Notifications
• Enhanced Collections Functionality

Many of these updates appear to …

One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have released a Mac OS X edition of their TACTIC production DAM system.  The Mac version contains the same features as the Windows edition:

“Once we launched our open source system, we began receiving more and …

Flexera Software and IDC released a survey last week that revealed an ongoing gap between the perception of value between vendors and enterprises:

“The survey confirms a perception gap in the value of software that could explain some of the contentiousness between producers and their enterprise customers,” said Steve …