Combining On-Premise And SaaS DAM Strategies
Jeff Lawrence, of DAM consultants, Celerity has written an article for CMSWire: Finding the Perfect Balance Between SaaS and In-House DAM. This is an interesting subject […]
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Razuna Update To Version 1.6.5
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 …
Continue reading »Canto Releases “Flight” DAM SaaS System
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 …
Continue reading »Developing Efficient Metadata Operations Management Strategies – Part 1
Recently, I have been looking for some new terms to go into the community DAM Glossary project which we set up last year. As to be expected, there are an ever-growing range of candidates and part of the problem is deciding how to prioritise which ones should get written up …
Continue reading »DAM Foundation: Ten Standards Badge
DAM Foundation, President, Mark Davey has written an article where he proposes 10 defining characteristics of DAM systems. The list appears to be derived from an article Elizabeth Keathley wrote which we covered last month on DAM News, but they have tightened up the list and made …
Continue reading »Planet DAM – Aggregated Feed Of DAM Related RSS And Twitter Updates
Tim Strehle, whose blog is listed as one of our featured DAM resources, has developed a useful page where he has aggregated multiple DAM-related RSS and Twitter feeds into a single river of news. He also has links to 121 (and counting) DAM products. His blog contains …
Continue reading »Does The DAM Industry Still Need DAM Trade Shows?
For various reasons, I was not able to make the New York leg of the Henry Stewart DAM trade show earlier this month. This has prompted me to consider what alternatives there are to making contact with other people in DAM and also to contemplate the value of these events …
Continue reading »Widen Integrate With ProofHQ Online Proofing Software
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 …
Continue reading »CMIS4DAM Draft Technical Committee Charter
Those readers with good memories might recall there were some moves from standards organisation, OASIS, last year to establish a DAM metadata interoperability standard which could integrate the numerous media related metadata protocols encountered in DAM under the banner of CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services). As ever with achieving consensus …
Continue reading »DAM Implementation: Key First Issues And Questions To Consider
Australian DAM integrators and consultants, DataBasics have written an article on their blog: Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Image Library Requirements Guideline which covers some key issues and questions to consider when implementing DAM. The questions include:
- Do you know what your assets are?
- Do you know where your assets
Usability And User Experience In DAM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a featured article for us: DAM Good? Yes, It Can Be! – How To Make Users Love Your Digital Asset Management System. The item was written by Neil Monahan, their Digital Marketing Manager and describes the importance of …
Continue reading »AtTask Partner With Multiple DAM Vendors
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 …
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