Legacy Metadata – The Next Big DAM Problem?
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. […]
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New Feature Article – Who Needs a DAM Librarian?
Deborah Fanslow has contributed the first part in a series of DAM News feature articles in response to David Diamond’s piece for CMSWire: Library Science, Not Library Silence:
“After reading David’s article, I was inspired to do a little informal research. I was curious…when did the topic of librarians …
Continue reading »IntelligenceBank Add UI Customisation Features
Australian DAM vendor, IntelligenceBank , have added some UI customisation features to their DAM solution. Mainly this is branding related updates that let users add logos and background images:
“IntelligenceBank Marketing continues to innovate in the areas of user-centric branding. Recently IntelligenceBank launched the new Background Image feature, …
Continue reading »Where Next For Differentiation In The DAM Software Market?
In the previous article today, we covered Widen’s release of their SmartImage ‘DAM Lite’ system and yesterday, the update to Portfolio from Extensis. I would not want to do a direct comparison between SmartImage and Portfolio since I’m just basing this on some press and web pages, but an impression …
Continue reading »Widen Update SmartImage To 4.0
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 …
Continue reading »Extensis Upgrade Portfolio DAM
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
DAM Foundation Digital Asset Manager Human Resources Survey – Call For Participation
DAM Foundation are conducting a survey into human resourcing for Digital Asset Managers, especially salaries and the type of employers who most frequently hire them. They have conducted this study in previous years (since 2011) so the objective is to measure how the Digital Asset Manager HR situation has changed …
Continue reading »Southpaw Add Media Library And Brand Manager Products
Open source DAM vendor, Southpaw Technology, who develop the TACTIC DAM platform, have announced two additional products: Media Library and Brand Manager, to compliment the three others they announced in August. Up until now, TACTIC has been a production-oriented DAM platform which might typically be used to automate …
Continue reading »Brandworkz Update To 6.2.1
UK DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have updated version 6.2.1 of their self-named brand-oriented DAM software solution. The key new features are:
- Asset detail preview
- Multi-page documents
- Pinned asset bar
- Larger video uploads
The updates appear to be mostly UI-related enhancements, but with a focus on asset presentation. The general …
Continue reading »New DAM Books Site
Today, we launched a site about Digital Asset Management Books. Along similar lines to some of our other simpler description-based DAM resources, dambooks.org is a list of titles, link to where you can buy them and (where relevant) some additional resources provided by each author. There are a …
Continue reading »Widen Employees Talk DAM
Over on the Widen blog this week, they have an interview with three of their employees. As a general rule, I find these ‘meet the staff’ type of posts that some companies go in for to be a an embarrassing form of ritualised employee humiliation that manages to combine …
Continue reading »ECM And DAM – Are They Better Together Or Should You Vote For Independence?
In the UK this week, the news has been dominated by the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence where people in Scotland get to decide if they wish to become a self-governing nation state or remain united with England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I gather from those who I talk to …
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