Category: Vendors

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released version 6.1 of their Widen Media Collective DAM system.  The main new features seem to be as follows:

• Improved upload workflow
• Enhanced collections* presentation
• Updated metadata editing controls
• Dynamic media building

* I think this is a reference to …

Open Source .NET Web Content Management specialists, EPi Server have partnered with inRiver to add a Product Information Management (PIM) module to their popular WCM platform:

“Product management can be a real headache for online marketers and merchandizers with complex product assortments that are sold through multiple channels in …

One of our featured vendors, Picture Park have updated their flagship DAM solution to version 8.3.  The new edition has improved derivative file support, these are what some users and vendors used to call ‘surrogate’ files and might typically include alternative resolutions or some other modifications such as colour space …

The number of vendors linking their DAM systems to SharePoint continues to increase as the platform consolidates its position as ECM platform of choice amongst corporate IT managers.  One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark are the latest to participate in this trend.  Today, they have announced a SharePoint connector …

ConceptShare, a tool to enable users to annotate media such as artwork, video and web pages have announced two separate partnership agreements with ECM vendor, OpenText and one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM.  This from the ConceptShare/OpenText tie up:

“The ConceptShare integration with OpenText Media Management …

Getty images owned photo microstock agency, iStockphoto have announced a plug-in to enable users of Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 6 applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to access their range of stock images:

“With the iStockphoto Plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite®, you can browse, download and edit photos and …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark announced yesterday that they have released a connector module to enable their DAM system to integrate with the Dropbox file sharing system:

“Picturepark files are synchronized to Dropbox for Teams accounts from where they can be shared with all or selected Dropbox …

We have predicted it for some time and if the BBC start reporting about Google with headings like ‘Digital Assets’ then it’s a fair bet that Google are on the cusp of entering the DAM market:

“Cloud services have become hugely popular as people seek to access content from …

VSN, one of our new featured DAM vendors (although one could argue you should call them MAM vendors :) have released an updated edition of their VSNARCHIVE system.  Being more MAM-centric it appears more suitable  for broadcast use, which is presumably why they’ve gone for a launch to coincide with …

DAM vendor consolidation at the enterprise end of the market continues with today’s announcement from one of our featured vendors, North Plains that they are acquiring competitor, Xinet:

“Through this acquisition, North Plains leverages Xinet’s best-in-class technology for file-based management of WIP assets as well as its success serving …

We missed this blog post last week from one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM.  It covers a number of themes we have described in our predictions for the Digital Asset Management sector, in particular the transformation of DAM systems from being merely libraries of content to …

One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions have launched DAMSuccess.com:

“DAMSuccess.com is a premium website offering a wide range of educational resources for marketing and creative teams, including free video webinars, best practices and templates, digital asset management trends and an interactive DAM Answers forum. Most notably, …