David Diamond Wins DAMMY Of The Year
When he is not practising his usual hobby of trashing DAM vendors (deservedly in some cases, it should be said) my co-contributor has also been […]
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North Plains Release Xinet 17.6
One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains have released an updated edition of Xinet 17.6. The new features are somewhat light:
- Archive aware API that will enable integration between Xinet and third party archival solutions
- Xinet Pilot “which enhances and expands asset browsing functionality so designers and artists
North Plains Partner With Equilibrium
Another week in Digital Asset Management, another partnership between an ancillary vendor and DAM system OEM. This time it’s North Plains (who are about the closest the DAM industry gets to ‘large’ currently in terms of the pure players) and Equilibrium who develop media processing servers. NP have got their …
Continue reading »OASIS CMIS & DAM Interoperability Telephone Conference, October 2nd 2013, 11am ET
On 16th September, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) hosted a conference call to discuss potential need for a common DAM interoperability standard. As part of that conversation, CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) and ICOM (Integrated Collaboration Object Model) were also considered to see how they might …
Continue reading »Jennifer Neumann Webcast, 5th November 2013, 10am PT, 6pm UK, 7pm Europe
Jennifer Neumann, original founder of Canto is giving a presentation in a webinar/webcast sponsored by Picturepark. The event looks interesting as Jennifer has experience in DAM going back to 1990. She is going to discuss topics such as:
- The early growth of DAM
- Differences with her own management
- Mistakes
Updated Digital Asset Management Glossary
Earlier this year, I wrote an article about DAM Glossaries and also my employer donated an existing one to DAM News to ensure development of it would progress. At the time this wasn’t much more than a basic list of terms with some manually coded anchor links between them. Over …
Continue reading »OpenText Partner With ExactTarget
ECM mega-vendor, OpenText have announced a partnership with ExactTarget (who are owned by SalesForce). The PR is typically sketchy, but the basics seems to be that it’s a way for ExactTarget to access repositories of digital assets and use them to deliver content to different segments. This quote seems to …
Continue reading »2013 DAM Guru Pro Job Mashup Virtual Job Fair
The DAM Guru Programme (DGP – administered by vendor, Picturepark) have announced what they call ‘DAM Pro Job Mashup’ – a kind of virtual job fair:
“This virtual job fair features members of DAM Guru Program who are looking for new employment opportunities. Throughout the month of October, …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management: More Than Just A CXM Sub-Plot?
Anjali Yakkundi who is an analyst for Forrester has written an article for their blog: What’s Next For Digital Customer Experience Tools? She covers DAM along with data and content management tools:
“The technology to manage experiences is maturing, but many organizations continue to struggle. These data and content …
Continue reading »Excess Competition In The DAM Solution Market And The Consequences For Innovation
David Diamond, Marketing Director for Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: It’s Time to Kill the Competition. The basis of the article is what we have discussed on DAM News quite a lot, that vendors spend too much time copying each …
Continue reading »Zombie DAM Vendors Lying In Packs
My co-contributor has dealt more than I have with the subject of DAM ROI illustrations that sections of the industry insist on pedalling to end-users. When vendors reach a certain size, they get new marketing people involved who (unless they are from a DAM background) often don’t understand the …
Continue reading »Southpaw’s TACTIC To Be Distributed On Amazon Marketplace
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technology announced yesterday that they have made their TACTIC Open Source Digital Asset Management solution available via the Amazon AWS market place. This is the quote from Southpaw boss, Gary Mundell:
“TACTIC has always been available via browsers as an internally …
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