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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This special feature was written by DAM News Editor, Ralph Windsor
The topic of consolidating DAM solutions seems to come up a lot in Digital Asset Management implementations currently, usually when end users become aware that their use of DAM (both prospective and current) is wider than they initially thought. …
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Like a lot of people I know in the Digital Asset Management trade currently, my firm has been deluged with client work for a sustained period. Several times in recent weeks, I’ve been asked why I think that is. Some vendors advance the theory that it’s because their solutions have …
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Widen have updated their SmartImage ‘DAM Lite’ SaaS product to a new version 4.0. The new features include:
- Public and custom portals – links to collections of assets
- Batch editing of assets
- Quick search using file type and keyword filters.
- Performance enhancements
- Increased storage capacity subscription options
There is also …
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Extensis announced an upgraded edition of their Portfolio DAM system today. The highlights are:
- Updated User Interface
- Increased in capacity to 10m assets
- Live ‘as you type’ searches for assets, or ‘Guided Search’ as Extensis call it
- Faster search results (i.e. more efficient indexing)
- Faster metadata extraction for generating automated
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Relatively new to the industry of Digital Asset Management, Anand still understands that technology does not fix people/process problems; rather you must first educate the user to enable successful outcomes in a DAM system.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at …
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Romney Whitehead wrote an article One giant leap for DAM last week on her Borrowed Insight blog. In the piece, she talks about the need for a dedicated Digital Asset Management department, following the discussion of it at last month’s London DAM Meetup:
“More often than not the …
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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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There have been a few more articles on DAM in CMSWire over the last week or two. One which is short, but makes a very good point is this by Irina Guseva: Improve DAM Creative Workflows First, CXM Will Follow. The theme of the item is that CXM depends …
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This is the next in our series of articles on managing metadata cataloguing operations.
In part five, the subject was using outsourcing to assist with metadata cataloguing projects. In the final item in relation to human-based methods for efficiently organising metadata operations, I will consider outsourcing. This has …
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