Category: Vendors

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 …

Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News has provided a feature article: The Broken IT Analyst Market And Evaluation Options For Cost-Conscious DAM Buyers.  He assesses the impact of the NetScout lawsuit against Gartner, considers some alternative perspectives on the role played by them both and discusses the wider implications.  …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have announced updated support for video via partnership with Sorenson Media today:

“In addition to making audio and video available in many more formats than were previously available in Picturepark, the new Video Converter also enables Picturepark to accept …

On Wednesday, Adobe launched the Creative Cloud Market.  In brief, this is a stock media library that allows Creative Cloud users to access pre-built design elements like graphics etc.  The source assets are provided by selected designers from Behance, a stock design market platform Adobe bought up in …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion have upgraded their desktop app-based workgroup DAM solution of the same name.  Here are some of the key new features:

• Duplicate assets checking (and search for dupes)
• Enhancements to the built-in taxonomy
• Synonyms and tag groups
• Faster rendering (display) of large images

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen have updated their principal DAM solution, Media Collective to version 7.2.  The major alterations in relation to integration with Silicon Publishing, AtTask and ProofHQ we have already covered in previous articles.  Most of the other new stuff looks fairly maintenance oriented …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, WoodWing, have upgraded their Elvis DAM solution to version 5.0.  The key enhancements relate to scalability and the architecture of their solution to support a much larger volume of assets (up to one billion according to their press).  This is the quote …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have announced that they have agreed another partnership tie-up with an ancillary tool vendor.  This time it’s with Silicon Publishing, who produce web-to-print InDesign automation software.  The Widen plug-in essentially links digital assets held inside Media Collective (Widen’s DAM …

Open source DAM vendor, Razuna have announced version 1.6.5 of their DAM system.  The main features seem to be improved PIM (Production Information Management) integration, but in common with many DAM vendor updates recently, a lot of this reads like either maintenance updates or features which other competing applications …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Canto, have released a new product called Flight, a SaaS DAM solution:

“Flight was developed for the increasing number of organizations looking to access applications in the cloud rather than deploy on their own infrastructure. With its cloud, social and …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have announced another integration with a third party niche solution provider.  This time, it is ProofHQ who they have partnered with, who provide on-line content approval tools:

“By integrating the Widen Media Collective with the ProofHQ proofing solution, enterprise …

Project management and workflow vendor, AtTask have partnered with two DAM vendors, Widen and WebDAM.  They appear to have deliberately selected both vendors as the DAM component of their strategy:

“Don’t torpedo your productivity or your creativity. AtTask has integrated with leading cloud DAM vendors, Widen and …