Category: Vendors

CMS Critic has a breakdown of 10 Content Management Systems for photo galleries.  The products covered include:

• Coppermine
• Tiny Web Gallery
• Plogger
• Pixelpost
• phpAlbum
• Zenphoto
• 4images
• LinPHA
• Piwigo
• Gallery (also featured on our Open Source Digital Asset Management tool round-up)

“When it comes to sharing your images on your …

One of our featured DAM vendors, NetXposure have released version 6 of their DAM solution.  The new features include:

• Enhanced InDesign integration
• Automated QR code generation
• Expanded social media integration including support for publishing to YouTube, Flickr and WordPress
• Enhanced REST interface
• Team collaboration and workflow enhancements
• Transcoding engine

Edward Smith, writing on the Extensis DAM Learning Centre discusses 3 benefits of using Digital Asset Management consultants to help with a DAM system implementation project:

• The delivery process is composed of 3 elements: people, processes, and technology.  The technology is only one of these and good DAM consultants will

One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, are holding a webinar: “Next steps in efficient DAM usage” on Thursday 30 June 2011, 4pm (CT).  The 30 minute presentation is being lead by DAM consultant, Michael Moon of Gistics and will cover:

• Structuring workflows linked to business process management

Alfresco, who often appear to have a semi-detached take on the Digital Asset Management market yesterday released ‘Alfresco Team’ which is touted by them as a “Content Collaboration Platform” – or a DAM system to use an alternative term more familiar to readers of sites like this one.  The basic …

Modula4, developers of add-ons for Canto’s Cumulus DAM system have announced the release of Web Module 3.1 today:

“In addition to improvements in design and performance, new file sharing links offer easy access to any file or group of files, and watermarking and other image processing instructions are …

One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have released an update to their flagship Telescope Digital Asset Management system.  Now on version 9, the new edition includes the following main upgrades:

• New HTML5 interface
• Drag and drop files from Telescope to other applications
• User friendly visual workflow

Earlier this year, we reported that Leala Abbot was compiling a technically oriented spreadsheet listing all known Digital Asset Management Vendors (no easy task).  An updated copy is now available, please visit Leala’s blog to contact her and request access.

“To try and make sense out of the …

Phase One, who acquired Expression Media from Microsoft last year have released an updated version and renamed it ‘Media Pro’ (which was the original name when Microsoft first bought it from iView Multimedia).  The new edition resolves a number of issues with Expression Media and is being offered at a …

One of our featured Open Source DAM Vendors, Nuxeo, have released version 1.3 of their DAM solution.  Nuxeo DAM now includes closer integration with their core ECM platform and is able to support three new features as a result:

• An installation wizard
• Java-Based Launcher with Embedded Shell
• Shared

San Francisco based vendor, Stipple have introduced a range of products to help connect photo buyers and sellers by automating the tagging and monetization process.  They offer four integrated tools for photo rights holders, brands, publishers and consumers:

• Lens (for photo rights holders):  licenses more than 100,000 editorial images per

Web Content Management (WCM) and translation technology vendor, SDL has acquired DAM SaaS provider, Calamares:

“With the acquisition of Calamares, SDL extends its customer engagement offering to include video and rich media management. The Calamares media management and enrichment solution will be fully and seamlessly integrated into SDL’s Global …