Dam News & Articles

Nuxeo (news, site) is having a busy week with content management goodies. The company has gotten approval for its content repository, dubbed Apricot, and now it's announced a point release of its open source document assessment management (DAM) product over at the corporate blog.

After a far too brief holiday, the DAM Lowdown returns with: SDL's acquisition of Calamares, FocusOPEN launches a developer network, Createasphere hosts an open source DAM seminar, NorthPlains extends TeleScope via partnership and Quick Hits.

Irish firm pTools (news, site) has been hard at work on its new cloud WCM suite, spending three years and a million euros on the project.

SDL has previously partnered with companies in need of web content management solutions. Today, SDL acquired a digital assets management solution, and its offering just got spicier. By acquiring Calamares, a cloud-based platform that allows enterprises to centrally compose, enrich, publish and distribute video and other rich-media assets, SDL is able to extend its customer engagement solutions to include video and rich media management, which are more in demand across the enterprise than ever before.

The DAM Lowdown was off last week, but that didn’t stop the DAM news. This week we have highlights from NAB 2011, another acquisition by KIT Digital, product and people updates from ADS, a new iPad app for Hollywood production and more Quick Hits.

The quantity of digital assets we manage is going no where but up. Yet, a recent CMSWire poll revealed that almost 50% of respondents use things like "shared file servers and other less wonderful practices" to manage them. Given the state of DAM technology, this is clearly not the best approach.

What you need is a Digital Asset Management (DAM) Strategy that supports the organized creation, management and delivery of digital assets across multiple channels and devices.  And part of any good DAM strategy is a solid technology platform.

The open source services firm Rivet Logic is running a complimentary webinar explaining how to build a DAM solution with the Alfresco content management platform. The event is titled "Digital Asset Management with Alfresco" and runs this Thursday April 21st at 2pm EDT (11am PDT).

Emil Loreto, Engagement Director at Rivet Logic will walk you through:

• The compelling business drivers and use cases for Digital Asset Management (DAM)
• Key characteristics/components of a DAM solution stack
• Rivet Logic case studies and best practices implementing Digital Asset Management using Alfresco
• What to consider when planning your Digital Asset Management implementation.

Managing your digital assets has never been more complicated, and it's only going to get worse as consumers demand even more from social and mobile channels. Learn how an Alfresco-based Digital Asset Management solution can provide you a viable option. Reserve your seat here.
 

The DAM Lowdown is back with an overview of H.264, a new version of TACTIC 3.5 from Southpaw, Evolphin Zoom 2.8 fills a gap left by Adobe Version Cue, Henry Stewart announces dates for DAM conferences in Europe and Los Angeles and the debut of Quick Hits.

The DAM Lowdown returns with: A new web scraper from Helium, the second annual DAMMY awards, the Golf Channel implements IPV, Handmark chooses Unicorn Media for mobile video and Widen discusses SaaS DAM vs. installed DAM.

Is video a viable part of both your enterprise content and search strategies? If you’re like most companies, video is getting more attention in the enterprise. According to a recent Forrester study, the pervasiveness of video has become a significant consumer and corporate trend.

This week in the DAM world includes: a new version of Medialibrary, VFinity gets some attention from our friends at Forrester, celum expands its borders, WebArchives partners with Continuum and ADS warns us about the dangers of tape.

Ektron (news, site) announced their Enterprise Technology Partner Program in November of last year. Since then they've developed a number of key partnership designed to integrate the best capabilities into their web engagement management platform. Today, they add to that partner list with video asset management provider Brightcove.

We teased the idea of a weekly column on the DAM landscape last year, but, you know, we got busy, and... well... The DAM Lowdown is back with the latest news in the DAM industry.

Rebrands are often complex and dubious exercises, but there's no issue with Agility CMS's new look because it looks cool and the old one, Edentity, sounded so Web 1.0.

Browser wars are not only about market share -- they can also be about support for different technologies. This is why it was rather strange to hear that Google will remove H.264 video support in future versions of its Chrome browser.

Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) imposed by Apple on its App Store make the iconic VLC Media Player an outlaw there. Legal contradictions (DRM vs GPL) deprive Apple users of one of the best video players.