VSN Updates VSNARCHIVE 5
VSN, one of our new featured DAM vendors (although one could argue you should call them MAM vendors :) have released an updated edition of their VSNARCHIVE system. […]
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DAM vs CXM: Time For New Terminology?
Over on CMSWire.com this month they are running a series of articles about Digital Asset Management. This one was of some interest to me (after the post a few weeks ago about the lack of formalisation of the term: “Digital Asset Management”). Anjali Yakkundi discusses why CXM (Customer Experience …
Continue reading »North Plains Acquires Xinet
DAM vendor consolidation at the enterprise end of the market continues with today’s announcement from one of our featured vendors, North Plains that they are acquiring competitor, Xinet:
“Through this acquisition, North Plains leverages Xinet’s best-in-class technology for file-based management of WIP assets as well as its success serving …
Continue reading »Createasphere Announces 3rd Annual DAMMY Awards
Createasphere have announced that entries are open for their 3rd annual DAMMY awards. The award categories are:
- Best Storage, Archive, and/or Preservation Solution
- Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management during the Acquisition of Content
- Best Example of Asset & Media Re-purposing
- Best Strategy Ease of
Amazon Announce “CloudSearch”
We’ve done the topic of Amazon’s development of core DAM services to death in various previous posts. The latest update “CloudSearch” is further encroachment by Amazon on the services which many of their customers are already offering:
“Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed search service in the cloud. …
Continue reading »Big User Behaviour Data: DAM’s Only Remaining Business Model?
This Forbes article by Shomit Ghose discusses how ‘Big Data’ might become the only viable business model left for tech entrepreneurs as the commoditisation of software and hardware progresses. Ghose uses physics analogies to explain his point and the conclusions are difficult to argue with:
“So if maximum entropy …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management Definitions: Time For The Terminology To Be Formalised?
Writing last week on the Real Story Group blog, Kashyap Kompella considers the difference between MAM (Media Asset Management) and DAM (Digital Asset Management). He proposes this definition:
“To keep things straight, let me clarify the terminology a bit here. Broadly speaking, we refer to digital asset management (DAM) …
Continue reading »Photo Metadata Conference, 17 May 2012, London (UK)
The Photo Metadata Conference is being held in conjunction with the CEPIC conference in East London (UK) on 17th May 2012. The event costs 120 UK Pounds and will cover both applying metadata to help photos get found in searches and a rights presentation on preventing images from becoming ‘orphaned …
Continue reading »Cross Media World 2012, 3-4 September 2012, London, UK
The Cross Media World Expo takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London (UK) between September 3rd – 4th. The event is targeted at print-focussed marketers but covers a wide range of other technologies also, including digital asset management:
“Cross Media 2012 is a brand new, highly …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management World Summit: 26-27 June 2012, The Okura, Amsterdam
Another DAM-specific conference, the ambitiously titled “Digital Asset Management World Summit” takes place in Amsterdam this June on 26-27th June this year (2012). The key issues to be addressed are described as:
“IP Based workflows, rights and royalties of digital assets, workflow in the cloud, business process management, collaborative …
Continue reading »The Evolution Of DAM Into Digital Asset Production
We missed this blog post last week from one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM. It covers a number of themes we have described in our predictions for the Digital Asset Management sector, in particular the transformation of DAM systems from being merely libraries of content to …
Continue reading »WebDAM Solutions Launch “DAM Success”
One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions have launched DAMSuccess.com:
“DAMSuccess.com is a premium website offering a wide range of educational resources for marketing and creative teams, including free video webinars, best practices and templates, digital asset management trends and an interactive DAM Answers forum. Most notably, …
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