Widen Release SmartImage 2.0 – The Ongoing Segmentation Of DAM Solutions
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, released SmartImage 2.0 earlier this week. This is a kind ‘DAM Lite’ which is aimed at users who need […]
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Using DAM To Distribute Digital Assets To Social Media Platforms
DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written the second part of his feature article on Social Media and how it can integrate with DAM through the DAM Value Chain:
Ralph considers some of the main issues with the use of an organisation’s digital assets:
- Verifying asset suitability and
Aproove Collaboration & Proofing Webinar, Aug 14, 9am ET (2pm UK, 3pm Europe)
DAM integrator, IO Integration are hosting a webinar about ‘Aproove’ – an approvals and collaboration tool they resell (and presumably integrate with the other DAM solutions they offer). The webinar sounds like a general introduction:
“Ideal for agencies, brand managers, marketing departments, and printers as well as centralized service …
Continue reading »DAM Interoperability – The Answer To The Orphan Works Problem For Asset Intellectual Property Owners?
My co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has written an article for CMSWire which they published yesterday: The Building Blocks Of Digital Asset Management Interoperability. He has a slightly unconventional take on the interoperability subject which those with an IT/systems perspective might not have considered (but which is no less valid for …
Continue reading »FocusOPEN 3.4.6 Released
Open source DAM vendor, FocusOPEN Software, have released version 3.4.6 of their Digital Asset Manager product. The new features are:
- Batch append or replace
- Text replace
- Advanced filtering
- Metadata export supports Unicode and UTF-8
- New import features
- Updated filtering
FocusOPEN target their product at sys admins and software …
Continue reading »DAM Hosting And Integration Decisions
On the ADAM blog, my co-contributor and fellow author of the DAM News whitepaper Digital Asset Management Hosting: Making The Right Decision For Your Organisation has written the “missing chapter” of our original report DAM Hosting & Enterprise Application Integration. The blog post includes integration topics which we …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management – Finding The Right Fit (And The People To Run It For You Too)
Jeff Lawrence, of consultants, Celerity who we featured in June has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Asset Management: Finding the Right Fit for Your Company. The item is an introductory primer on the various factors you will need to think about, including:
- Establishing goals and objectives
- Buying custom
ROI: Making A Better Business Case To Demonstrate The Value Of DAM
Over the last few months we have been looking at the flawed nature of classic ROI calculations as applied to DAM and how these nearly always contain misconceptions embedded within the calculations which can invalidate the conclusions of any study. A few people have contacted me about these articles and …
Continue reading »DAM News Content: Polite Notice About Copyright
It has come to our attention that a DAM vendor has being making wholesale copies of sections of the DAM News website to use for their own marketing efforts. Although imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery, if you duplicate our content and have not obtained prior …
Continue reading »Createasphere DAM Conference, New York, 7th-8th October 2013
DAM conference organiser, Createasphere are holding their New York conference between 7th-8th October 2013. The speakers include: Fran Alexander, Steve Saunder and Rob Schuman among others. Not shown as a featured speaker, nor even listed as one at all is Henrik de Gyor, who is, however, apparently presenting what looks …
Continue reading »Selling DAM Systems – It’s All About Trust And Understanding
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have recently re-vamped their website and added a number of information oriented articles. We have fairly robust editorial guidelines (as some might have noticed!) and covering website revamps would typically get filed under the ‘no chance’ classification. What they have done, …
Continue reading »Telerik Add Digital Asset Management To Sitefinity
.NET tool vendor, Telerik yesterday announced the release of a new 6.1 edition of their WCM platform, Sitefinity with Digital Asset Management capabilities added:
“Analysts are seeing a nearly 60 percent year-over-year increase in DAM-related client inquiries. These users require the ability to quickly and easily do their job, …
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