WebDAM Updates SaaS Platform
DAM SaaS vendor, WebDAM solutions, have announced an updated version of their platform with a particular focus on the User Interface – or ‘User Experience’ […]
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Asset Liability And Accessibility Trade-Offs In DAM
David Diamond, Marketing Director of Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Liability Management. The item is about dealing with the complexity of asset licences when storing digital assets inside DAM systems, especially when using media from third party sources that …
Continue reading »WoodWing Release Elvis DAM 4.1
WoodWing Software have released an updated version 4.1 of the Elvis DAM system they acquired last year. The key features seem to be:
- Distributed storage
- Linux server support
- Support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Korean
The update doesn’t sound much, but while the three bullet points given …
Continue reading »New Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory
Last week, we soft-launched a completely revised Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory. This is replacing our existing simplistic A-Z list, which with close to 90 entries had grown rather unwieldy. I am pleased to report that our new directory is now fully live.
On the new DAMVendors.com site, you …
Continue reading »ROI Thresholds In DAM And Marketing Technology Investments
G.David Dodd has written a guest post on the ADAM blog where he follows up some of the observations I have made about ROI. The analysis piece covers the wider discussion area of marketing technology investments in general, not just DAM. His article handles the ROI subject more skilfully …
Continue reading »DAM And The Not For Profit Sector
This article by Kristy Smith on iMedia Connection: 5 Ways Nonprofits Can Leverage Digital Asset Management has been picked up by a few people I follow on Twitter, notably @widenenterprises and @davidriecks (maybe some others I’ve missed too). Kristy works for Nationwide Children’s Hospital and she explains some of the …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management And Social Media
DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written a special feature following on the DAM Value Chain subject which we have been examining this year: DAM Value Chain: Social Media. The article is split into two parts. The first of these deals with the use of Social Media techniques …
Continue reading »Locking Up Your Metadata And The Role Of Image Registrars – Time For A Linked Data Solution?
David Riecks has written an article for DAM Coalition: Why Can’t I Lock Up My Photo Metadata? where he discusses various options for preventing the modification of metadata. He also explains why it will be difficult to achieve with currently available image formats and the tools to manipulate them without …
Continue reading »Daminion 1.0 Released
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Russia-based Daminion, have released version 1.0 of their flagship workgroup DAM. The main new features are:
- User roles
- Auto-sync folders to monitor for changes and update without user intervention
- Improved RAW image handling (faster imports and more versatile colour management)
- New tags
German Translation Of “An Introduction To DAM Findability Techniques” – Eine Einführung in DAM Auffindbarkeitstechniken
Back in March this year, I wrote an article for DAM News: An Introduction To DAM Findability Techniques. Ilka Martin of Xenario GmbH has kindly provided us with a translated German language edition which those whose first language is not English might find easier to read. Eine Einführung in …
Continue reading »Nuxeo Platform 5.7.1 Released
One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo have released a major update to their open source platform. The update includes:
- Re-factored user interface for the DAM module
- Improvements for Nuxeo Drive
- Enhanced user experience
- Full OSGi compliance for the Content Automation client
- New authentication plug-ins
They have released this …
Continue reading »celum Update IMAGINE With 2013.3 Release
One of our featured DAM vendors, celum, have released a new version of their DAM system, IMAGINE. This release, 2013.3 includes the following updates:
- SE version (essentially a ‘lite’ edition of the enterprise product)
- New look and feel
- Social media content management for controlling distribution to social media