Content Management Matters ™

pTools, an enterprise content management vendor, announced new enhancements to its Enterprise CMS software for Microsoft SharePoint. It is now integrated with Equilibrium’s digital asset management software -- MediaRich DAM for SharePoint.

Several research firms have been looking into the future of digital asset management (DAM), web content management and web 2.0. In a nutshell, the future is bright -- with all three markets experiencing high growth in the next several years. We are talking millions and billions of $US.

As expected, there are also many challenges that will affect the markets in the near future.

Most of the connectors we see for SharePoint are focused on search, content repositories and social networking. Here's one that fits a different bill - ADAM Software offers a connector for SharePoint to improve it's Digital Asset Management capabilities -- to a degree.

The sun is shining for Day Software, a company known for its global content management and content infrastructure software and who has just announced the release of its new stand-alone digital asset management solution (DAM).

Part of Day’s Communiqué (CQ DAM) line, CQ DAM is the only content application with native JCR standard-compliance available.

There's no business like show business. On the back end of all the broadcasting fun, though, lies the ubiquitous digital asset management problem -- a problem akin to having too may DVDs, nowhere to store them and nothing good enough to play them on. On a much larger scale, that is.

Artesia Digital Media Group, a DAM vendor acquired by Open Text three years ago, just got snuggly with Front Porch Digital, a global market leader in content storage management solutions for the broadcast community. Together they'll provide customers with an integrated video management and storage solution.

Innovation and standards compliance -- with a hint of improved usability thrown in -- come together as Day unwraps the latest versions of Communiqué CMS and their JCR-compliant Content Repository Extreme (CRX).

And not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent SharePoint-based Interactive Media Manager announcement, this morning the company gave us a peek under the covers of a sporting new digital asset management (DAM) solution enchantingly named Communiqué Digital Asset Management, or "CQ DAM" for those of you with less free time.

Today at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas -- our dearest little spot in the West -- Microsoft will unwrap a new media asset management offering built on their SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 platform.

The new Interactive Media Manager product is (perhaps predictably) hailed by the company as a next-generation content management solution. It combines digital work flows and media application integration in a collaborative environment built on SharePoint's core strengths.

Proximity Group, one of the leading Video asset management firms with offices in London, New York and Sydney, has been acquired by Apple, according to their website.