This special feature article has been written by Ralph Windsor, a senior partner in Digital Asset Management implementation consultants, Daydream.
One of the fashionable tech trends of the moment is undoubtedly ‘Big Data’. Compared with some other terms doing the rounds right now, it has slightly more merit as an …
Continue reading »Back in April last year, we reported how various investment websites were ramping the potential of Cloud DAM vendors like KIT Digital by highlighting how they used (abused?) their contracts with clients to lock them in for 24 months to help guarantee a certain level of ‘income visibility’, as financial …
Continue reading »Henry Stewart’s DAM LA conference ‘early bird’ offer expires tomorrow (14th September 2012) so if you plan to attend and want the $200 discount, this is your last call to get it:
“From the ‘User’s Perspective’ we’ll look at what are the DAM fundamentals in 2012/13. Brand and content …
Continue reading »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 »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 »Onlinevideo.net has posted a review of various commercial transcoding and encoding tools. They cover hardware, software and cloud based tools, including the following:
Hardware
Software
Cloud
“It’s …
Continue reading »As reported on WhichStockAgency.com (and sourced from TheNextWeb.com) Snapixel, a microstock photo exchange has closed its doors and will power down their servers on 31st August 2012:
“Snapixel originally launched in October 2009 as a hybrid between a stockphoto marketplace à la iStockphoto and a photo sharing …
Continue reading »Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market:
“In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen …
Continue reading »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 »Stock media leviathan, Getty Images have recently announced the release of their ‘Connect’ API. This allows users to search their vast repository of content and integrate it with their own systems:
“Our set of APIs provides direct access to millions of images and hundreds of thousands of videos across …
Continue reading »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.
The novelty factor of having a networked system that can deliver all of an enterprise’s media from one source is …
Continue reading »As we did last year in 2011, this week we will take a look at the Digital Asset Management (DAM) industry and try to predict some of the key themes that will emerge over the forthcoming year and beyond. This article is divided into two sections: the DAM industry …
Continue reading »