One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have released a Mac OS X edition of their TACTIC production DAM system. The Mac version contains the same features as the Windows edition:
“Once we launched our open source system, we began receiving more and …
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David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picture Park and contributor to DAM News has written an article for CMSWire, provocatively titled: 5 Good Reasons to Avoid DAM Software. The item is partly tongue-in-cheek and uses a mix of Luddite arguments and deliberate reduction …
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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 …
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One of our featured DAM vendors, Daminion Software have released version 0.9.7b of their flagship DAM system. Apart from wining the award for more obscure product version number of the week (and they’re not even open source!) the update contains a variety of new features:
- Import Office documents like
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Chris Heilmann, who is a “principle developer evangelist” at Mozilla (why aren’t there job titles like that in the software companies I do work for?) describes some myths about HTML5, with special reference to the lack of adoption of HTML5 for mobile applications:
- HTML5 doesn’t perform
- HTML5 can not be
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On CMSwire,com, Henrik de Gyor has written an article Should I Auto-tag or Crowdsource my Metadata.
The summary of the post is that there are a combination of either automated methods and crowdsourcing techniques which can potentially be used for asset metadata cataloguing, but you need to test each …
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Edward Smith writing for CMSWire.com discusses some trends he sees in prospect for the DAM industry. They are:
- Bigger assets and more of them
- Greater integration with other business systems
- Used across the business rather than by just creative teams
- Automation and streamlining of the asset and metadata ingestion
- Increased
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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 …
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Introduction
This guest post is written by David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director of DAM vendors, Picturepark.
The Inhumanity of DRM
We DAM professionals are increasingly fascinated about digital rights management (DRM). We want to protect our content, and we’re constantly on the hunt …
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ReadWriteWeb.com covers ‘Boom Town’, an HTML5 game that has been simultaneously offered on Apple App Store, Android Google Play and Facebook. The game itself sounds pretty dull, but I’m not a massive gamer and the real point of covering this story here on DAM News is that demonstrates how the …
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Introduction
Yesterday we examined our DAM industry predictions for 2012. Today in the second part of the article, we analyse the technology predictions for the forthcoming year.
Key Themes
The novelty factor of having a networked system that can deliver all of an enterprise’s media from one source is …
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One of our featured DAM vendors, WAVE Corporation have written a blog post which definitely resonates with my own consulting experience when working with clients who are interested in implementing Digital Asset Management. They discuss how when they get enquiries, sales prospects can tend to expand the scope of …
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