A couple of weeks ago, Northplains released a new DAM platform called NEXT (not to be confused with similarly named competitor, NetX). This replaces their Telescope and OnBrand products, the former their original platform first developed 20 or more years ago and the latter dating from their acquisition of …
Continue reading »This feature article has been contributed by Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News and is the second article in a series of items with the title Finding Signs Of Life In DAM. See also the previous article about digital asset supply chains.
In the first part …
Continue reading »This feature article has been contributed by Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News.
Recently, among some who have been involved in the DAM industry for a long period of time, there has been what can only be termed despair at the lack of progress the market has made …
Continue reading »Last week, CMSWire published an article by Mohan Taylor, from North Plains: DAM Goes to Market(ing). This is one of the better argued pieces I’ve read about handling the marketing use-case in DAM:
“I fundamentally believe that the software solution is only as good as the …
Continue reading »Last week, Daminion announced an upgrade to version 4.0 of their client/server desktop DAM solution. As seems to be the convention currently, none of the updates are likely to have anyone falling off their chair in shock and amazement, but there are a decent number and some of their peers …
Continue reading »It is a month since we published the What’s Holding DAM Back? series of article which was written by Jeff Lawrence, David Diamond and myself. Previous to that we published, our critique of current DAM innovation which used Jeff’s CMSWire article as a primary source. There have been a some …
Continue reading »In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …
Continue reading »This feature article by DAM News editor, Ralph Windsor first appeared on DAM Coalition in July 2013.
Scaling Enterprise Digital Asset Management Implementations
In this article, I am going to analyse the various pressures on DAM implementations that can create a need for scalable systems and attempt to offer …
Continue reading »According to VentureBeat yesterday, Adobe have acquired stock photo library, Fotolia for US $800m. They cite the following statement from the official Adobe announcement:
“Adobe today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for stock content. Fotolia will be …
Continue reading »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 »UK DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have updated version 6.2.1 of their self-named brand-oriented DAM software solution. The key new features are:
The updates appear to be mostly UI-related enhancements, but with a focus on asset presentation. The general …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and marketing director of Picturepark, has contributed an article for CMSWire: Reinventing Digital Asset Management. He covers a number of the themes which we have discussed on DAM News for the past few years (and David is gracious enough to …
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