Category: Vendors

One  of our featured DAM vendors, Daydream have released an update to their .NET open source DAM system, FocusOPEN.  The stand out features for me were:

• Image manipulation: cropping, flipping, and re-sizing assets
• Advanced multi-level group permissions features
• Physical asset support and delivery information
• Batch email broadcasts
• PDF contact

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released a blog post: “A shared folder is no substitute for DAM software“.  They pose several reasons why:

• Limited security
• Lack of back up (replication)
• Need to invest in IT equipment
• Lack of proper version control

“The …

One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have written a whitepaper “Why CIOs are increasingly interested in DAM”:

“New technologies have created a new world of marketing and have led to an increased importance of marketing activities within the enterprise. With these changes, comes new pressure on …

One of our featured Digital Asset Management vendors, North Plains have released recordings of a 3 part series of webinars about the foundation of DAM:

“The DAM Foundations Series is a 3-part series of DAM webinars and whitepapers designed for DAM evaluators, stakeholders and users to create shared …

Open Source Content Management (but never to be described as “DAM”) vendor, Alfresco have released version 4 of their ‘open platform for social content management’ yesterday.  The stand-out features include:

• High performance indexing
• Integrated workflow
• Enhanced clustering
• Social media integration allows publishing to: YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr and SlideShare

Adobe have released an updated Lightroom version 3.5 and also Cmera Raw 6.5 The desktop photo management tool which is very popular with photographers for metadata management tasks features support for a wide range of new cameras but also various bug fixes:

• Using the arrow keys to modify image adjustment

One of our featured DAM vendors, Dutch Software, have released a new beta version 2.6 of their Elvis DAM system.  The upgrade includes:

• Custom plug-ins for the desktop client
• Major performance improvements for RAW file format preview processing.
• Adobe Reader integrated: View original PDF in the desktop Client

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, have released a whitepaper: “Building A Better DAM”.  The report covers:

• Metadata design tips that help you ensure you’re tracking everything you need both now and in the future.
• User account configurations that simplify permissions assignments for more secure systems
• Ideas

One of our featured DAM vendors, Conecture Technologies, have announced a major new release to their Mediabox-DAM software.  The release includes features to switch between light box and list views of assets, zoom into images to view details, transform and resize images while downloading, customize proof sheet reports …

Marketing automation provider, Vyre, have recently announced the 4.6.2 release of their Unify platform.  The release includes enhanced statistics and reporting, protected content sharing, web-to-print and support for ReCAPTCHA.

“VYRE Unify 4.6.2 is a new major version release of VYRE’s marketing automation platform. This release includes greater search …

Extensis have announced the release of Portfolio Server 10, an update that includes support for streamed HD video playback and conversion for tablets, mobile devices and the web.

“Employees and clients are infinitely mobile and over 75 percent of businesses plan to deploy tablets by the end of 2013. …