Mega-vendor, Oracle have acquired content storage and distribution provider, Front Porch Digital earlier this week: “Front Porch Digital’s unique capabilities complement Oracle’s high performance and scalable engineered storage […]
Continue reading »All this week, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) have given over their Strictly Business blog to members of the DAM Guru Program (DGP), who are posting a series of information articles to explain more about the benefits of DAM for photographers. Ben Smidt, who manages DGP sent …
Continue reading »IntelligenceBank, have announced support for embedding digital assets into social media platforms and third party websites. The press release is short, but this quote from their CEO, Tessa Court covers the key points:
“Not only can you distribute images and video across several channels at once, but …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »Picturepark, have announced the release of a Sitecore connector for their DAM of the same name. Sitecore is a .NET based WCM (Web Content Management) platform. Since the term ‘website’ has acquired a bit of an old-fashioned tinge to it these days and the medium might equally be something …
Continue reading »Deborah Fanslow and Emily Kolvitz have put together a DAM Directory under the auspices of DAM Foundation with a lot of useful links to various DAM information, reference guides and sites, including: resources, organisations, publications, vendors, consultants and case studies. The directory is sub-divided into Corporate DAM and Jobs sections …
Continue reading »Last week, CMSWire ran an article with the title DAM Confusion in the Marketplace by Elizabeth Keathley of Atlanta Metadata Authority and author of the book Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. This prompted a fair amount of interest, mainly because …
Continue reading »Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News has provided a feature article: The Broken IT Analyst Market And Evaluation Options For Cost-Conscious DAM Buyers. He assesses the impact of the NetScout lawsuit against Gartner, considers some alternative perspectives on the role played by them both and discusses the wider implications. …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Picturepark, have announced updated support for video via partnership with Sorenson Media today:
“In addition to making audio and video available in many more formats than were previously available in Picturepark, the new Video Converter also enables Picturepark to accept …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »One of our featured open source DAM vendors, Southpaw Technologies, have developed a series of app that are designed to run on top of their TACTIC DAM platform. The three apps are:
CMSWire are running another series of DAM-related articles this week (and next, I believe). The focus this time around is more practical stuff about how to get more out of the technology, as opposed to the comment and opinion feature series they have run. There have been a few good …
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