This special feature was contributed by Deborah Fanslow and is the final item in a series of four articles. A PDF is also available for download.
At last, we’ve reached the point where I can effectively answer David Diamond’s call for information professionals to “come …
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This is the third part of Deborah Fanslow’s article series: Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part two is also available for anyone who has not read it. Deborah is one of the editors of The DAM Directory and an MLIS qualified librarian. A PDF copy of this article can also …
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As reported on CMSWire earlier this week, stock media library, PhotoShelter have recently launched Libris, a SaaS DAM solution. This follows similar moves from other larger stock media libraries such as Shutterstock and then Adobe moving into stock media (going in the other direction). PhotoShelter appear to have …
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In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …
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DAM Vendor, Canto, have announced version 9.2 of their long-standing DAM solution, Cumulus. The key feature revisions are:
- Amazon S3 storage of assets
- Upgraded workflow with review/approval cycles
- What they call “Social DAM”
- Mandatory fields collected at the point of upload
- Duplicate asset checking
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On DAM Guru last week, there was an interesting interview with Laurel Calsoni, who you can follow on Twitter @DigitalArchivst. The item is a good one and Laura makes a number of points I would agree with. There is one, in particular, in answer to the question “what …
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Having the benefit of exposure to many different digital asset management systems, Guseva understands that success is more often measured by the value a company places on the staffing and change management with a new DAM system, as opposed to the software selected.
What companies/organizations have you worked for …
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This special feature was written by Ralph Windsor, DAM News Senior Editor and Project Director at DAM consultants, Daydream.
Recently, it was widely reported that IT industry analysts, Gartner, were being sued by NetScout, a Network Performance Management products and services provider on the grounds of …
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Open source DAM vendor, Razuna have announced version 1.6.5 of their DAM system. The main features seem to be improved PIM (Production Information Management) integration, but in common with many DAM vendor updates recently, a lot of this reads like either maintenance updates or features which other competing applications …
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As both an author and Director of DAM, Saunders makes sure things are done right when it comes to her digital asset management systems.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
I have worked for a large number of clients over …
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Project management and workflow vendor, AtTask have partnered with two DAM vendors, Widen and WebDAM. They appear to have deliberately selected both vendors as the DAM component of their strategy:
“Don’t torpedo your productivity or your creativity. AtTask has integrated with leading cloud DAM vendors, Widen and …
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One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, today announced the new version 7.1 of their Widen Media Collective SaaS DAM solution. The new features include:
- Asset level analytics (reporting on per-asset downloads etc)
- Stylized Collections (branded image galleries derived from favourites/lightboxes/collections etc)
- Video editing and frame-selection (cropping
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