Category: Vendors

Box demonstrated a technology yesterday at their ‘BoxWorks’ convention called Box Embed.  In essence, it allows the user to take an item of Box content and all their collaboration facilities (such as tagging, comments etc) and embed it into another web application – in a similar fashion to YouTube video …

Yesterday, WoodWing Software, developers of the ‘Enterprise’ multi-channel publishing software system acquired DAM vendor, Dutchsoftware, who develop Elvis DAM:

“Our publishing system, Enterprise, and Elvis DAM are very much complementary,” said Erik Schut, President of WoodWing Software. “Enterprise streamlines the publishing process through collaboration, an efficient workflow and easy …

Adobe announced the release of Acrobat XI yesterday.  The main features of interest are all fairly predictable stuff like tablet support and cloud integration.  Of greater significance for the DAM/ECM industry (although still predictable) is the SharePoint integration features which allow PDFs to be more seamlessly shared:

“The industry …

DAM vendor, MediaBeacon announced version 5.1 of their R3volution DAM system late last week.  The new features include:

• Predictive text search
• Improved UI and branding customisation options via a ‘theme manager’
• Asset data feeds
• More API functionality

“‘I couldn’t be prouder of the grace and power behind MediaBeacon 5.1,’ …

Indian VAR and integrator, Cognosys Technologies announced the launch of CogDAM yesterday:

“Cognosys Technologies has launched an end to end CogDAM Digital Asset Management suite with single click encoding service with live streaming capabilities based on Azure Media Services. This media service allows clients to have a single integrated …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark have released a YouTube connector for their flagship DAM system.  The stand-out features appear to be as follows:

• Use Picturepark metadata fields for YouTube field values.
• Schedule video posting and take-down dates.
• Record embed links back in the DAM.
• Serve as a

One of our featured open source Digital Asset Management vendors, Nuxeo have released version 5.6 of their platform.  The new features include:

• Adaptive workflow
• Visual workflow design
• Definable action buttons
• Multi-tenant features
• Content difference highlighting
• Document templating (creation of custom documents)

One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions, have added some new capabilities to their SaaS DAM platform.  These include:

• Viewing of PowerPoint and PDF files in-line from the web interface
• Full-screen presentation delivery
• File conversion between various formats such as jpeg, png, tiff etc
• Resolution conversion
• Colourspace conversion

Open source DAM vendor, Razuna, have released version 1.5 of their flagship DAM system.  The new features include:

• HTTP distribution of files to rendering scripts on other servers for proxy/surrogate media generation
• Front-end customisation
• New caching engine
• Scheduled backups within the application
• Import/export metadata
• Login from Google or

One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released ‘Teamwork’, a solution to provide annotation and workflow features:

“Teamwork is designed specifically to match the precise requirements of marketing managers handling cross-media campaigns, rather than print-related tasks. Also, the availability of ‘workflow blocks’ means that Teamwork makes it …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released an article on auditing your existing DAM system.  They cover a number of steps, including:

• Produce a ‘snapshot’ of your current situation.
• Identify your user base.
• Examine your roles and permissions (who can do what with your assets).
• What are

Long standing DAM vendor, Canto, have recently upgraded their flagship DAM system, Cumulus to version 8.6. The new version apparently adds ‘over 50’ updates.  Of potential interest to some might also be the Google Maps visualisation of geodata embedded within media.

The new edition’s major functional enhancement, however, appears …