DAM For Healthcare Markets Webinar, January 17th 2013, 5pm GMT (9am PST, 12pm ET)
Henry Stewart are hosting a free webinar on 17th January at 5pm GMT (9am PST, 12pm ET) about the application of DAM to the healthcare sector. […]
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North Plains ConnectR – The Integrated Future Of DAM In 2013 And Beyond?
Last month, Print Week had an interview with North Plains CEO, James Christopher where he outlines their vision for DAM and how they plan to utilise each of the three DAM technologies they now own having acquired both Xinet and Vyre last year. Normally, CEO ‘vision’ pieces are fairly turgid …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart, DAM NY, May 2-3 2013, New York City
Lucy Lincoln, Henry Stewart’s Communications Executive has sent us details of their New York conference to be held on May 2nd-3rd 2013 in New York City. They plan to cover:
- How DAM expertise and systems are becoming indispensable
- Important advances in technology and working practices
- Monetisation and gamification
- Procurement
Widen Join ADAM and OpenText By Integrating With ConceptShare
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have announced that they also have integrated their Media Collective SaaS DAM system with the ConceptShare creative review tools for annotating artwork:
“Users of the integration can send any asset to ConceptShare from Widen Media Collective’s asset details page. Once …
Continue reading »Social Media Digital Asset Distribution And The Politics Of DAM
As well hoovering up DAM vendors, it seems North Plains also have some time to pen one or two articles for the marketing trade press too. This one written for Marketing Daily by their marketing Vice President, Eric Courville caught my attention: Content, Channels, Consumers: How To Manage It …
Continue reading »North Plains Update Telescope & Xinet
One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, have recently updated their own Telescope DAM system and also Xinet who they acquired earlier this year. The stand out features from the Xinet update are:
- Allows Xinet to transfer files to Telescope
- Build contact sheets of assets
- Preview assets
FocusOPEN 3.4.4. Released
One of our Open Source Digital Asset Management vendors, FocusOPEN, have released version 3.4.4 of their flagship product. In common with many of these developer oriented DAM systems, there is lots of detail about new features, but very little narrative. To be fair, I complained about the opposite with …
Continue reading »Cloud & On-Premises DAM Compared – Will History Repeat Itself?
David Diamond, marketing director of one of the DAM News featured vendors, Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire comparing the relative merits of Cloud and On-Premises (installed) DAM: Cloud DAM vs On-site: There is No Real Contest.
The stand-out point …
Continue reading »How The Marketing Supply Chain May Become More Efficient Than Its Manufacturing Counterpart
One of the DAM News featured vendors, ADAM have an article by a guest author, David Dodd, Streamlining the Marketing Materials Supply Chain:
“…the marketing materials supply chain is a large, and largely untapped, source of cost savings and revenue-enhancing improvements. In most companies, the supply chain …
Continue reading »Why There’s Radical Change Ahead For Vendors In The Digital Asset Management Industry
Matthew Gonnering, CEO of DAM vendor, Widen has written an article for VentureBeat.com called Why there’s radical change ahead for the digital asset management industry:
“The increased demand for digital assets occurs in tandem with the rise of multiple content distribution channels. Social, web and mobile channels intensify …
Continue reading »North Plains Acquire VYRE
North Plains, have announced today that they have acquired UK based vendor, VYRE:
“This acquisition continues our rigorous focus on enabling North Plains customers to better connect and engage with their target audience by unleashing the power of their visual media,” said James Christopher, President and CEO, …
Continue reading »Gamification: Not Worthwhile For Enterprise DAM?
This post by Chirag Mehta discussed the role of Gamification with special reference to enterprise applications. For those who has unfamiliar with the term, Gamification means the application of gaming techniques to create more engaging user experiences. Chirag argues (correctly in my view) that flow and a simple, uninterrupted user …
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