Two weeks ago, I posted a summary of a telephone conference held on 16th September hosted by web standards organisation, OASIS for those with an interest in […]
Continue reading »CMSWire are running a series of articles in October with the common theme, “Do we still need DAM”. They ran one of my items earlier this week about service oriented models for DAM (following our general DAM Value Chain theme). They have followed up with another article by Widen’s Al …
Continue reading »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 less than complimentary about the DAM Award business too. Although we definitely don’t agree on everything, some of the selections of the DAMMY award …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains have released an updated edition of Xinet 17.6. The new features are somewhat light:
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 »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, 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:
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 »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 »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 »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 »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 …
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