Digital Asset Management News & Articles

With all the talk of new solutions, new technologies and new versions of technologies, it would be hard to imagine that a considerable number of companies are still having problems with the basics of digital asset management (DAM).

That would appear to be one of the primary conclusions of a new report released by the Aberdeen Group (news, site) for Widen, a provider of web-based digital asset management applications. The report says that only half of Best-in-Class organizations (53%) indicated they currently have searchable access to content.

Earlier this year in an interview, George Grippo, VP Media Asset Management at North Plains, indicated that many Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendors are struggling to cope with the special requirements of video asset management.

While he didn’t explicitly say in the interview that North Plains (news, site), a rich media and DAM solution vendor, was working on a solution to do just this, this week’s release of their latest version of Telescope Video Manager shows that they were.

Available as an on-site or SaaS solution, the Telescope Video Manager provides a relatively inexpensive solution that even novices can use in the creation, editing and distribution of short and long form video across multiple platforms like YouTube and other social networks.

It's been a busy few months for Autonomy Interwoven (news, site).Last week, it unveiled a new solution that provides analytics for social media.

This week, it's turn for MediaBin -- their Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution -- to get a once-over, which comes in the form of meaning-based Virage MediaBin 7, a solution that automatically retrieves, analyzes and processes audio, video and graphic content.

Equilibrium (news, site) is a company pushing for a slice of the rich media ecosystem developing around SharePoint. They are just one of many companies finding both innovative and obvious ways to leverage SharePoint as a platform. Let's have a gander at their approach.

When Autonomy (news, site) announced its acquisition of Interwoven in late January there were many in the web content management industry who believed it was the beginning of the end for Interwoven TeamSite -- this despite Autonomy's commitment at the time that all Interwoven products would live on according to their existing roadmaps.

Well Interwoven does live on, but the roadmap? It's not quite the same. The existing roadmaps for TeamSite and the other products have been accelerated and the capabilities within TeamSite have taken on new meaning -- meaning based marketing.

CMSWire had the opportunity to talk with Autonomy execs to get a better understanding of what is happening since the acquisition was finalized -- there's been a whirlwind of announcements -- and what it means for the future of Interwoven's TeamSite web content management solution.

A new software product that provides content and visual management for the retail industry has just been released by Arigo as part of its Product Information Management (PIM) suite.

Arigo Collective untangles jumbled content in email, spreadsheet and file servers. Combined with with two other embedded solutions -- Concept and Flow -- that create product records and real-time resource and logistics management respectively, you get an end-to-end PIM solution.

Equilibrium (news, site) is making big waves in the DAM segment with its MediaRich for SharePoint solution. The product allows enterprise users to manage massive amounts of video, images and other rich media. Adding a thumbnail view and metadata search to SharePoint, with batch processing and web connectivity, creates a productive system for managing a company's digital assets.

Last month, when ADAM software (news, site) released its v4.4 of its enterprise Digital Assets Management(DAM) platform it had its eye on a bigger piece of the content management pie.

With the announcement today that its newest release is to be integrated with SDL Tridion’s (news, site) Web Content Management System, it appears to have done what it set out to do.

In a content management world obsessed with the dual goals of cutting costs and maintaining -- or improving -- quality in an ever tightening marketplace, the latest partnership between Open Text (news, site) and Endeca (news, site) should help achieve both.

Announced during the week, the two have teamed up to deliver Endeca’s Digital Asset Navigator solution on Open Text’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform.

Everyone wants to be in the movies – but not everyone has the cash to break in.

With this basic thought in mind, Qumu, a California-based provider of rich-media solutions for enterprises, came up with Qumu Kodiak.

The new suite, which has just been released, provides global enterprises with the ability to create, manage and distribute video communications without straining financial or network resources.

Extend Media (site) -- a provider of software for managing digital media and high-volume commercial video services -- is about to take off with a new offering based on their OpenCASE CMS that should make flying much more entertaining.

Riding the CQ 5 and CRX momentum waves, Day Software (site, news) just released CQ 5.2 featuring new Social Collaboration (SoCo) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications.

While marrying web content management with social media, web 2.0 and DAM is hardly revolutionary -- nowadays, it’s more about execution than the idea itself.

A new Embedded Content Tool (ECT) that will allow users with little or no website-building abilities to create sophisticated web pages in real-time has just come onto the market.

Developed by Platformic, an end-to-end web development and SaaS web content management systems company, this new ECT is targeted at non-web-based media companies that need to better enable their content managers and more simply bring disparate media assets into their web content.

To enable users of their digital publishing solution the ability to conduct faster, more accurate image searches, enterprise content management provider, Nstein (news, site), will integrate the Imprezzeo image-based search engine with its Text Mining and search products.

ADAM Software has been busy working on a new set of features for its .NET-based Digital Asset Management platform. Finally released, ADAM 4.4 offers a set of data source controls in ASP.NET, automated standardized classification and more.