FocusOPEN 3.4.7 Released
.NET open source DAM vendor, FocusOPEN Software have released an updated version 3.4.7 of their DAM system of the same name. The upgrade is a […]
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CXM – Just One Facet Of Your Digital Asset Management Strategy
Late last year, there was an article written by Elliot Sedegah on business2community.com with the title: Make Digital Assets a Part of Your Marketing Growth Story in Three Steps. I usually find items with titles along the lines of ‘eat yourself thinner in 24 hours’ to be less than …
Continue reading »Maximising ROI From Your 2014 DAM Budget
DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has kicked off 2014 for us with a DAM News feature article on ROI. Last year we criticised many in the DAM industry for producing flawed infographics about this subject. To offer readers an alternative, Ralph has written an educational article where he outlines …
Continue reading »More Digital Asset Managers Or More Digital Asset Management Education?
Yesterday, DAM Foundation published an item by Elizabeth Keathley of Atlanta Metadata Authority: Staffing for a DAM: Finding Successful Digital Asset Managers.
To clarify (for anyone who might not have understood the difference) “Digital Asset Managers” is usually a reference to a real human being who has responsibility …
Continue reading »Widen Upgrade SmartImage To 3.0
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have announced an upgrade to their SmartImage simplified DAM platform. Their marketing manager, Jake Athey, offered this:
“The flexibility and simplicity we’ve built into the product allows you to offer a unique viewing experience and user-friendly access to brand assets. …
Continue reading »celum Integrate With EPiServer WCM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, celum, have announced an Add-On for the Web Content Management (WCM) system, EPiServer. This is from Harald Haghofer, Chief Services Officer:
“Central management of content used in numerous systems gets more and more important. Data Flow starting from the photographer, acceptance …
Continue reading »SDL Partner With North Plains
Two of our featured DAM vendors, SDL and North Plains, have announced a strategic partnership where SDL will resell North Plains various Digital Asset Management solutions along with their range of WCM and translation products. The ‘boss quote’ from SDL CEO, Mark Lancaster, has unfortunately let the side down …
Continue reading »Extensis Offer “Flow” Mobile DAM Client
DAM vendor, Extensis (one of the few who have yet to finalise a damvendors.com profile) have announced Flow, a mobile application that integrates with their Portfolio Server DAM system. Here is the ‘boss quote’ from Chad Slater, Director of Engineering at Extensis:
“Extensis worked in concert with our …
Continue reading »Picturepark Offer Regional Cloud Deployments
One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark announced last week that they have begun offering ‘regional cloud’ deployments of their DAM solution. These are true locally operated DAM SaaS implementations rather than just being single customer instances hosted in a local data centre. This is the quote from Ramon …
Continue reading »ADAM Release Workflow 2.0
On Friday, one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, announced Workflow 2.0 (which is an actual upgrade from 1.0, rather than a marketing play on words). ADAM are are firmly in the Microsoft camp so their workflow solution uses Visio to allow users to employ visual tools to …
Continue reading »How DAM Can Save You Money – Finally A Non-Zombie DAM Infographic
Many DAM vendors have recently been copying each other’s marketing strategies by promoting these ROI Infographics that claim to tell you exactly how much money a ‘typical’ DAM can save without any real basis in fact or plausibility. My co-contributor made the comparison with ‘zombie vendors’ a few months ago…
Continue reading »The Best of Breed vs Suites Debate
Desirae Odjick writing on the ConceptShare blog has made a comparison of Best of Breed and what she terms ‘All In One’ software. The former is an implementation strategy where multiple applications developed by different vendors are combined. The latter is an aggregated package, usually delivered through interdependent components and …
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