DAM – The Software Industry With A Market Identity Crisis
DAMMY award winner and author of the DAM Survival Guide, David Diamond, has written an article on his own DAM Survival blog with the arresting […]
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The Role Of DAM In Customer Experience Management, Webinar, 11 December 2013, 7pm (Europe), 1pm (ET), 10am (PT)
One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM are hosting a webinar: The Role Of DAM In Customer Experience Management with two consultants from Cognizant and Accenture on 11 December 2013 at 7pm European time (1pm ET and 10am PT for US attendees). The speakers are Gordon Walsh (Accenture) and …
Continue reading »H.265 Encoders Start To Appear
Andrew Reid, writing on his EOSHD blog discusses CineMartin’s release of CINEC v2.7 which allows H.265 encoding:
“This low data rate and file size makes all kinds of magic possible, because at the same data rate as the old codec you get a massive leap in image quality and …
Continue reading »The DAM Specialisation Debate
My fellow DAM News co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has written a new feature article: The Digital Asset Management Specialisation Debate. The item was inspired by some of the subjects considered during the CMSWire DAM Tweet Jam held last month. He examines three specialisation discussion points:
- Horizontal specialisation
- Vertical market specialisation
Widen Release Media Collective Version 7.0
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released version 7.0 of their DAM system, Media Collective. The key new features are as follows:
- WordPress and Drupal integration.
- iOS and Android mobile interfaces.
- Amazon Glacier interaction (Glacier is a cloud storage and archival system which is designed
Daminion 2.0 Released
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Daminion Software, have released version 2.0 of their desktop client/server DAM system of the same name. The new features include:
- Improved export (no longer strips metadata and a preset editor)
- Administrator control over import settings
- Dropbox integration
- Export metadata to CSV
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Continue reading »DAM Glossary Update
It’s nearly two months since we launched the updated DAM Glossary with a dedicated website: http://damglossary.org. As promised, I will report back on any updates. To date, these include:
- New feature to request an editor account (more about this below).
- Proper workflow approval controls for new terms.
- Editor and
Southpaw Technologies Update TACTIC Open Source DAM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technologies have announced an updated edition of their open source DAM solution, TACTIC. The new features include:
- Support for noSQL database: MongoDB
- Perforce integration: Perforce is is a software configuration management system
- Drag and drop upload from file system
- Automated messaging
Introduction To The PLUS Image Registry And Its Potential Benefits For DAM Interoperability
What’s up with PLUS and Why you Should Care appeared on the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) site last month and is an introduction to the work of PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) and their image registry in particular. This is an area that anyone involved in …
Continue reading »Using Metrics In DAM And Related Technologies To Optimise Marketing Operations
ConceptShare, who have been busy signing up swathes of DAM vendors to re-sell their approvals system by integrating it into their DAM solutions, have provided a case study written by their boss, Nish Patel, Improve Process and Performance with Creative Operations Metrics. Case studies can often be turgid …
Continue reading »The Future Of Marketing Automation And The Parallels With DAM
David Dodd who you can follow on Twitter @GDavidDodd sent us a link to an interesting article by Scott Brinker about Marketing Automation: The emerging third-party era of marketing automation. which has some parallels with our on-going discussion about the future of Digital Asset Management and the DAM Value …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart DAM LA Conference, November 14-15 2013, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Henry Stewart’s LA leg of their DAM conference schedule is on this year (2013) between November 14th-15th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Beverly Hills. The conference will cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Building DAM capabilities
- Overcoming Change Management challenges
- Successfully integrating and sustaining DAM
- Rights Management and