Category: Vendors

One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have added what they term a Social Media Collaboration Module to their flagship brand asset focussed DAM platform of the same name:

“Comprising an internal Blog feature and Who’s Who listing of teams within a company, the Social Collaboration module …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion, who specialise in low-cost desktop single user and client/server DAM solutions, have announced version 3.0 of their solution.  Some of the major additions are:

• Permissions controls to restrict access to assets.
• Direct importing of assets from digital capture devices (e.g. cameras,

One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution.  The new features include:

• Asset level analytics (reporting on per-asset downloads etc)
• Stylized Collections (branded image galleries derived from favourites/lightboxes/collections etc)
• Video editing and frame-selection (cropping

Adobe announced the new release of their Experience Manager suite today.  There are updates across Sites, Assets, Apps, Communities and Forms elements.  For assets, they offer the following in their press release:

“Dynamic, interactive media experiences, including video, can now be authored and delivered across devices. Advanced video …

Update: As of today (26th March) Razuna report that data recovery has been 100% successful.

Open Source DAM Vendor, Razuna, announced last week that they had sustained a 39TB data loss due to failure of multiple RAID drives in their hosting environment.  Data recovery experts were required to retrieve …

Earlier this week, one of our featured DAM Vendors, NetXposure upgraded their flagship NetX DAM software to version 7.  The new features include:

• A revised HTML5 user interface.
• Auto-matching of input fields based on a CSV tagging map.
• Controlled Vocabularies.
• Auto-selection of metadata based on user category selections.
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One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia.  Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have released version 3.5 of their “DAM Lite” platform, Smartimage.  The major new features include:

• REST API for developers to access Smartimage capabilities
• Batch apply metadata
• Tag based searching and sorting
• Create “sections” upon upload*
• Large previews for admin users

One of our featured SaaS DAM vendors, Amsterdam based,  Bynder, announced the release of version 4.0 of Enterprise Cloud Brand Portal 4.0.  The update is focussed on MRM (Marketing Resource Management) modules and include:

• Workflow Management
• Publishing on Demand
• Brand Identity Guidelines

The workflow management appears to be …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, have released version 8.6 of their DAM system.  The key upgrade is the use of NoSQL to augment their indexing and searching features.  They have also included these enhancements:

• Video cue points and bookmarks to allow users to access specific sections

One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced an updated version 2.7 of the On Brand DAM system (which they now own as part of their acquisition of UK vendor, Vyre in 2012).  They have a novel take on side-stepping the ‘boss quote’ by using some …

We have recently launched a new premium account feature for our DAM Vendor Directory at damvendors.com.  These are aimed at end users as opposed to vendors (who continue to not be charged for an entry).  The new premium facilities include:

• Shortlist feature for assembling multiple lists of prospective vendors