Category: Vendors

House & Co (who used to be known as ‘DigiEyeZ’) have announced the release of Media Manager, which is part of their DigiZuite range.  The major features are:

• Sharing of media and collaboration on assets and distribution via social media
• Uploading, editing, cropping from all clients (i.e. functional equivalence across

UK newspaper, the Guardian recently announced that they had released their new in-house image management system as an open source application.  There is an article about this by one of their developers, Sébastien Cevey:

“For about a year, a small dedicated team has been building the Guardian’s new …

Last week, Canto, released an upgraded ‘X’ edition of their long-standing Cumulus DAM application.  There are three major new features:

• “Portals” for sharing Cumulus assets via externally accessible websites
• iOS mobile client
• Updated REST API

As should be clear to those with some experience of the DAM software market, …

Last week, Daminion announced an upgrade to version 4.0 of their client/server desktop DAM solution.  As seems to be the convention currently, none of the updates are likely to have anyone falling off their chair in shock and amazement, but there are a decent number and some of their peers …

Earlier this week, Bynder, announced some updates to their SaaS DAM platform.  As is the case with this kind of vendor news currently, the level of innovation is not exactly sending the graph into a frenzied state, but these features may hold more interest for some people:

• Arabic language

Earlier this week, Adobe officially consolidated their stock media ambitions with the launch of Adobe Stock.  As reported on The Verge, this is the culmination of several manoeuvres and acquisitions in the last twelve months., in particular, the fact that you do not need to leave Adobe Creative …

The open source DAM application, ResourceSpace (developed and maintained by UK vendor, Montala) has recently been upgraded to version 7.2. The new features can be summarised as follows:

• Custom links (‘dash tiles’) linking to searches, collections, statistics etc – what I would guess are arbitrary URLs.  These can be

Legacy DAM vendor, Extensis, have announced a recent partnership with workflow vendor, Workfront (who were formerly known as AtTask).  Workfront is essentially a project management tool for keeping track of various types of work packages, with a focus on specific business activities, one of which is marketing, which is presumably …

Australian DAM Vendor, IntelligenceBank have announced the availability of a connector for their DAM to the SiteCore CMS:

“We are pleased to announce the launch of a connector for Sitecore – a leading CMS and CX software provider.With this new connector, web content managers can seamlessly browse and search …

Vendor, Daminion Software, have announced version 3.7 of their desktop client/server DAM system of the same name.  The key new feature is Active Directory (AD) integration so users can login with the same credentials as their corporate workstation:

“Integration with the Windows Active Directory allows the Daminion Server …

Last week, Adobe’s PR people sent us a variety of links in relation to their summit which were demonstrations of technologies from their ‘labs’ research division.  One example which is specifically about DAM is called SmartPic.  There is a quote below, but to understand the first issue I will discuss, …

DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have recently released an updated edition of their flagship Brand Asset Management software.  As per the current theme of early 2015, the release is mostly oriented towards tweaks and general maintenance updates rather than brimming with new innovations:

• Asset alerting – emails with details of new