Category: Vendors

OpenText have released their ECM Suite 2010 today, the highlights include:

• Open Text Portal (from Vignette): Offers a powerful, standards-oriented portal capability that publishes content from the ECM Suite, from processes, from the Web, Open Text Social Communities, and other content sources.
• Open Text Web Experience Management (from Vignette): Offers

One of our featured vendors, Razuna release an updated edition of their open source DAM platform today:

“Developers and network admins will appreciate the new backup & restore, enhanced permission settings and rich API functions. As a user, you will love that Razuna feels much snappier, has the option …

Extensis have released an updated edition of  Portfolio Digital Media Archive Server:

“Today we introduced a new addition to our line of Digital Asset Management (DAM) products: Portfolio Studio™. This is image archive server was developed for small teams to allow for automatically archiving and centralized access to photos …

Charlie Minesinger of Innovative Query writing on the Digital Landfill blog considers 8 criteria for choosing an ECM solution.  As with many of the articles about selecting ECM products, many of the criteria are appropriate for DAM vendor evaluations also:

1. Metadata Maintenance (Automation).
2. Findability.
3. Total Control.
4. Total Cost of Ownership.

Bud Porter-Roth writing on the Digital Landfill blog proposed 8 areas to consider when writing ECM proposals. They are all equally relevant for DAM:

• Review and Understand the Technology.
• Your Business Needs Should Drive the RFP.
• Requirements.
• Tell Vendors How They Must Write Their Proposals.
• Establish Evaluation Criteria and Actually

Video transcoding vendor, Anystream (part of Grab Networks) has been acquired by digital video workflow and tolls vendor, Telestream:

“Telestream, the leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, today announced the execution of a definitive agreement to acquire the business operations of the Anystream division of …

As reported on The DAM Show (on Peter Krogh’s “The DAM Book” site), Phase One, the company that acquired Expression Media 2 from Microsoft in June of this year have invited users to participate in a short survey about the direction of the product.  The survey link …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Celum today announced they have launched an iPhone/iPad app that can be downloaded for free and provides access to the functionality of their DAM solution:

“celum mobile.connect enables users to access the celum IMAGINE user interface and to distribute content with iPhone, …

Open Source ECM platform vendor, Nuxeo, have introduced a correspondence management solution to compliment their existing Document Management, Case Management and DAM offerings.  Designed with busy regulatory public sector and compliance departments in mind,the solution provides a number of specialist features for this burgeoning market:

“Nuxeo Correspondence Management …

One of our featured DAM vendors, dutchsoftware.com have released a new edition of their DAM solution, Elvis.  The updates includes:

• Metadata based permissions
• Required metadata
• Permissions for metadata fields
• Improved performance & stability
• A mobile client to allow iPads, iPhones and other non-Flash supporting devices to use the

Tony Byrne of CMSWatch.com has written an article with several useful tips for getting the right vendors to pitch for RFPs.  Many of the points are generically applicable to most enterprise software projects (including DAM).  The central theme of the piece is that the number of vendors responding to RFPs …

DAM Vendor, Vyre have released a white paper on DAM usability:

“With the rapid proliferation of rich media content the interest in Digital Asset Management solutions has increased. However, increased demand also brings challenges: most notably, usability and the ‘findability’ of assets:

• The process of uploading and tagging of