DAMMY award winner and author of the DAM Survival Guide, David Diamond, has written an article on his own DAM Survival blog with the arresting title: The DAM that can Cure Death. The summary of the piece is that David believes the DAM industry has attempted to abstract …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technologies have announced an updated edition of their open source DAM solution, TACTIC. The new features include:
What’s up with PLUS and Why you Should Care appeared on the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) site last month and is an introduction to the work of PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) and their image registry in particular. This is an area that anyone involved in …
Continue reading »David Dodd who you can follow on Twitter @GDavidDodd sent us a link to an interesting article by Scott Brinker about Marketing Automation: The emerging third-party era of marketing automation. which has some parallels with our on-going discussion about the future of Digital Asset Management and the DAM Value …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Extensis, announced yesterday that they have integrated their Portfolio Server DAM system with Swiss based Collection Management System (CMS) vendor, zetcom. This quote from Amanda Paull, VP of Marketing at Extensis seems to be a fair summary:
“Collections Management Systems …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have contributed a special feature article for DAM News: How To Encourage All Your Employees To Use Your Digital Asset Management System. Brandworkz, as their name might suggest, are more oriented towards the Brand Management side of DAM (or Brand …
Continue reading »This special feature has been written by DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor.
Introduction
One area that seems to have got more attention in DAM recently is User Experience (UX). It is instructive to understand what pressures have lead to this becoming a theme as they reveal both a threat …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw, who are better known by the name of their flagship system, TACTIC, have released version 4.0 of their open source DAM solution. The new features include:
This quote from CEO, Gary …
Continue reading »DAM News editors, Nick Brookes and Ralph Windsor have written a special feature exclusively for DAM News: The DAM SaaS Survival Guide – Protecting Yourself From Risks When Using Hosted DAM Systems. The feature article contains ten recommendations for those using Cloud DAM services to ensure that your data …
Continue reading »This feature article has been written by DAM News editors, Nick Brookes and Ralph Windsor (of DAM consultants, Daydream).
Introduction
Software as a Service (SaaS) or Cloud hosted applications are popular methods of deploying DAM systems which avoid the complexity of setting up and maintaining this service in-house.
Using …
Continue reading »Yesterday, WoodWing Software, developers of the ‘Enterprise’ multi-channel publishing software system acquired DAM vendor, Dutchsoftware, who develop Elvis DAM:
“Our publishing system, Enterprise, and Elvis DAM are very much complementary,” said Erik Schut, President of WoodWing Software. “Enterprise streamlines the publishing process through collaboration, an efficient workflow and easy …
Continue reading »Getty images owned photo microstock agency, iStockphoto have announced a plug-in to enable users of Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 6 applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to access their range of stock images:
“With the iStockphoto Plug-in for Adobe® Creative Suite®, you can browse, download and edit photos and …
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