Nuxeo 5.6 Released
One of our featured open source Digital Asset Management vendors, Nuxeo have released version 5.6 of their platform. The new features include: Adaptive workflow Visual workflow […]
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WebDAM Add Asset Manipulation Features
One of our featured DAM vendors, WebDAM Solutions, have added some new capabilities to their SaaS DAM platform. These include:
- Viewing of PowerPoint and PDF files in-line from the web interface
- Full-screen presentation delivery
- File conversion between various formats such as jpeg, png, tiff etc
- Resolution conversion
- Colourspace conversion
Big Pictures Photo Agency Facing ‘Cashflow Problems’
As reported in Press Gazette on Friday, paparazzi photo agency, Big Pictures, are currently undergoing ‘cashflow problems’ and have been forced to clarify their position to staff:
“An email sent to staff today said that the company was not in administration and remains under the control of current …
Continue reading »S3 Now Supports CORS – Does The Separation Of DAM Client And Server Applications Start Here?
Last week, Amazon announced they were adding support for the CORS specification (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) to the S3 storage API. This technical update may have some very wide ranging business implications (especially if other Cloud hosting platforms follow suit with their own storage capabilities). At present, if you want …
Continue reading »The Future Of DAM For Publishing, Broadcast, Media & Entertainment, Webinar, Wednesday 19th September 2012, 9am PT
Henry Stewart’s Continuing Professional Development Room division are running a webinar: “DAM and its Future for Broadcast, Publishing, Media and Entertainment” on Wednesday 19th September at 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK. The webinar is sponsored by DAM vendor, Harris, but attendees are promised that it is: ‘not a …
Continue reading »Revenue Generation Using DAM Solutions
Yesterday, CMSWire.com were good enough to publish an article I wrote about using digital asset management solutions to generate revenue rather than to enhance productivity (which is the more common use case). The piece is essentially a summary of a whitepaper I wrote in collaboration with Ralph Windsor from DAM …
Continue reading »DAM Market Reaching Maturity For End Users – But At What Cost For Vendors?
This CMO.com article was written by Nick Van Weerdenburg, Senior Product Marketing Manager from one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains. It is mercifully free of sales spin about how great NP are and explains how more demanding requirements from other industries have helped shape DAM solutions and …
Continue reading »Amazon Launches ‘Glacier’ Cloud Archival Facility
Amazon Web Services (AWS) have released a new storage system: ‘Glacier’, which is being marketed as an alternative to tape storage for anyone who needs to archive large quantities of data. The name appears to be some ironic joke about the speed with which you can get your data back …
Continue reading »Razuna 1.5 Released
Open source DAM vendor, Razuna, have released version 1.5 of their flagship DAM system. The new features include:
- HTTP distribution of files to rendering scripts on other servers for proxy/surrogate media generation
- Front-end customisation
- New caching engine
- Scheduled backups within the application
- Import/export metadata
- Login from Google or
Getty Images Acquired By Combined Bid From Hedge Fund And Leveraged Management Buy Out
As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, Getty Images, who own large swathes of the market for stock media assets have announced today that they have been acquired from former owners, Hellman & Friedman by a combined buy out consisting of The Carlyle Group, a private equity hedge fund (or ‘alternative …
Continue reading »Special DAM News Feature Article – The Inhumanity Of DRM
David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director of Picturepark has written a special feature for DAM News which we have published today: The Inhumanity Of DRM. The article discusses the value of DRM and despite the numerous DRM related features that DAM vendors add to …
Continue reading »ADAM Release Teamwork Proofing & Annotation Solution Using ConceptShare Tools
One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released ‘Teamwork’, a solution to provide annotation and workflow features:
“Teamwork is designed specifically to match the precise requirements of marketing managers handling cross-media campaigns, rather than print-related tasks. Also, the availability of ‘workflow blocks’ means that Teamwork makes it …
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