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 […]
Continue reading »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 …
Continue reading »I gather from some of our readers that today is what they colloquially refer to as refer to as “Black Friday” and stores or other retail outlets are known to discount some items in acknowledgement.
As such, in the same spirit, I would like to draw your attention to the …
Continue reading »Last month, we ran an item about the Digital Asset Management For Museums Conference which was held earlier this week in London (UK) on 27th November. Ian Matzen, whose Tame Your Assets blog is one of our featured DAM resources, has a summary write up of the event:…
Continue reading »UK DAM vendor, Bright Interactive, who develop the Asset Bank system have announced a new service called Crowd Feature. This is a website that allows their users to pledge funds for new features in order to split the cost. Asset Bank also envisage Crowd Feature being used by …
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