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Tuesday, May 27 2008

At the EMC World conference in Vegas, EMC unveiled their latest plans and roadmap for content management and collaboration including tighter integration of new products with the Documentum platform and a new SaaS model designed for SMBs. It sounds like a very busy year ahead for these folks, almost too busy.

Tuesday, May 20 2008

Busy group of analysts over at CMS Watch these days, releasing reports like crazy. They must be getting ready for a hot summer hiatus.

The latest report to come out is called The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008. It reviews 10 of the leading DAM vendors in the market today as well as 8 specialty and up-and-coming vendors.

Thursday, May 8 2008

Ahh, our insatiable need to spend hours viewing online video, whether it be our favorite episode of The Family Guy, or that hilarious commercial on YouTube. Yes we definitely are a world of watchers. And organizations are getting smarter everyday figuring how to use this vice to their advantage.

Online video search engine provider, blinkx, aims to help those organizations by providing the blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a video content management solution that will “unlock the potential of video assets and maximize their monetization”.

Tuesday, Apr 1 2008

Kodak — yes, the camera and film company — took home the 2008 ECM Connection ACE Award at AIIM On Demand in this year’s go around for their work helping customers achieve impressive levels of productivity and time management with their selection of production capture scanners and solutions.

Friday, Dec 21 2007

Let’s conclude 2007 with a pleasant tale: Nirvanix gleans investment capital from Intel! Hurrah!

With the monies from its new Tier 1 investor, Nirvanix plans to further the conquests of its storage delivery network, which recently took on the chimerical challenges of college funding and rich media (talk about pressure!).

But onto the new. Fresh financing “enables us to build-out the world-wide network to meet growing demand,” said CEO Patrick Harr.

(Let’s hope some of that funding is used to help pump up the benefits for existing clients, too.)

Nirvanix currently purveys hosted storage services, focusing specifically on the storage issues incurred by digital media and user-generated content.

Its storage delivery network is powered by the Internet Media File System (patent pending).

Thursday, Dec 13 2007

Document management and workflow purveyor SpringCM is partnering with EchoSign, which provides electronic signature automation.

EchoSign is availing its signature system to SpringCM clientele, as well as the Contract Accelerator for Salesforce.com, with which SpringCM fully integrates.

One nifty thing about EchoSign is it lets users “sign” documents electronically from any browser. This means you don’t have to run to FedEx Kinko’s to use that oldfangled fax machine-a-majig.

Wednesday, Dec 12 2007

Gotta love conference season. Catch Content Convergence and Integration 2008 this March 12-14 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The three-day event covers mobile, digital asset management, forward-looking XML, and plen’y of social media stuff. Days are segmented as follows: Day one for content, day two for technology, and day three for user relationships.

Friday, Dec 7 2007

Content delivery network Internap has integrated BuyDRM’s KeyOS Pay Media Platform into its proprietary offering.

The benefits of this integration will be most evident to users of MediaConsole, a component of the Internap Content Delivery Network. The MediaConsole is a workflow management toolset that supports streaming formats like Flash and Windows Media.

Tuesday, Dec 4 2007

Programming and software development is a thankless task, and you need all the help you can get, right?

Rubbish. You get paid a fortune and can stroll in at midday in a ZZ Top beard and pyjamas, and nobody in a suit ever talks to you because they have no idea what you actually do.

What the suits should do, of course, is ship you all off to a military barber for a #1, and then off to Qatar for six weeks of basic military training. That’d take the wind out of your sails. And while you’re at it, stop off in Hong Kong on the way back for some tailored suits. It wouldn’t kill you to look respectable once in a while.

Life is far too easy for you developers. Unfortunately, if you are in the business of coding for the Vignette suite of Enterprise CMS (and other) products, it’s just gotten even easier.

Friday, Nov 30 2007

…and they’re darn deserving of their own online management tools.

Coming December 1st, Widen Enterprises will debut Media Collective 5.0 and Backdrop, a photography approval tool.

Widen provides digital asset management solutions in a manner most SaaSy. (Work remotely! Awesoooome.)

The v5 release of Media Collective sports:

• Advanced asset versioning tools
• Conflict resolution for duplicate assets (YES!)
• Shared multi-page reviews in Adobe
• Ad and brochure-building options
• Backdrop, a tool that routs and approves photos

With Backdrop, photographers can upload images directly onto the platform for comments and approval — you know, like a document. Admins can also build automated actions for typical events in the approval process, making image publishing, review and storage less time-consuming.

Visit the Widen website for more info. (Turn down your volume unless you dig the idea of a Widen testimonial deluge.)

Monday, Nov 26 2007

Global CMS and infrastructure purveyor Day Software has announced plans to air its suite of Web 2.0 offerings at Gilbane Boston from 27-29 November.

You can catch it all at the Westin Copley, where the Gilbane Boston conference has oft been held.

Friday, Nov 16 2007

Back in the bad old days, when you sent an email somewhere containing some vital, time sensitive information, you just assumed that it got there, and that it would not ‘conveniently’ get lost or delayed somewhere along the line.

Yes, you laugh, but it’s true.

When you sent a registered or notarized letter through either the mail or a courier service, you only certified the damn envelope, and not what was in it. Back in the day, you could send someone a contract to sign, and they could send it back to you with a crucial page missing, and claim that that page in question was not included in the original document. And then you might find yourself in a good old-fashioned mess.

For you, that day might have been today. But, at the risk of sounding like a corny advert, maybe tomorrow will be different.