Category: Vendors

The timing of this update from Widen regarding their Media Collective SaaS DAM might not be entirely ideal (from their perspective) as a segue to our recent item about DAM innovation (or lack thereof).  I would imagine they might prefer to take an alternative view.  Here are the highlights:

• Targeted

DAM Vendor, Canto, have announced version 9.2 of their long-standing DAM solution, Cumulus.  The key feature revisions are:

• Amazon S3 storage of assets
• Upgraded workflow with review/approval cycles
• What they call “Social DAM”
• Mandatory fields collected at the point of upload
• Duplicate asset checking

This is the quote …

Cloud DAM Vendor, WebDAM have recently sent us a copy of a paper they have written about how to measure DAM ROI.  I must admit, I normally fear getting issued with these documents and asked for an opinion on them, perhaps only slightly less than that other tool …

Over on DAM Projects we have posted details of an RFP for a DAM Solution sent to us by Brand USA who promote travel and tourism to the United States.  The project post contains a link to a PDF with all the details.  Any questions must be asked before 3rd …

Australian DAM vendor, IntelligenceBank , have  added some UI customisation features to their DAM solution.  Mainly this is branding related updates that let users add logos and background images:

“IntelligenceBank Marketing continues to innovate in the areas of user-centric branding. Recently IntelligenceBank launched the new Background Image feature, …

Widen have updated their SmartImage ‘DAM Lite’ SaaS product to a new version 4.0.  The new features include:

• Public and custom portals – links to collections of assets
• Batch editing of assets
• Quick search using file type and keyword filters.
• Performance enhancements
• Increased storage capacity subscription options

There is also …

Extensis announced an upgraded edition of their Portfolio DAM system today.  The highlights are:

• Updated User Interface
• Increased in capacity to 10m assets
• Live ‘as you type’ searches for assets, or ‘Guided Search’ as Extensis call it
• Faster search results (i.e. more efficient indexing)
• Faster metadata extraction for generating automated

Open source DAM vendor, Southpaw Technology, who develop the TACTIC DAM platform, have announced two additional products: Media Library and Brand Manager, to compliment the three others they announced in August.  Up until now, TACTIC has been a production-oriented DAM platform which might typically be used to automate …

UK DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have updated version 6.2.1 of their self-named brand-oriented DAM software solution.  The key new features are:

• Asset detail preview
• Multi-page documents
• Pinned asset bar
• Larger video uploads

The updates appear to be mostly UI-related enhancements, but with a focus on asset presentation.  The general …

Mega-vendor, Oracle have acquired content storage and distribution provider, Front Porch Digital earlier this week:

“Front Porch Digital’s unique capabilities complement Oracle’s high performance and scalable engineered storage solutions. The combination of Oracle with Front Porch Digital is expected to create the most comprehensive enterprise-grade cloud and on-premise content …

IntelligenceBank, have announced support for embedding digital assets into social media platforms and third party websites.  The press release is short, but this quote from their CEO, Tessa Court covers the key points:

“Not only can you distribute images and video across several channels at once, but …

Picturepark, have announced the release of a Sitecore connector for their DAM of the same name.  Sitecore is a .NET based WCM (Web Content Management) platform.  Since the term ‘website’ has acquired a bit of an old-fashioned tinge to it these days and the medium might equally be something …