Digital Asset Management News & Articles

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.

DigiTech's collection of PaperVision SharePoint Tools (news, site) has been bolstered with the addition of a document uploader to get those critical documents into the system.

As MediaCore (news, site) nears full release, the system has had a hefty refresh and added new features to round out the offering.

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.

 Granicus (news, site) recently revealed a strong Q4, increasing new client additions by 100% over Q4 2009 and exceeding sales results from Q1 and Q2 2010 combined. The surge in the company's numbers not only reflects the effectiveness of their offerings, but also the growing need for open government and transparency initiatives. 

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.

One of the biggest hurdles in implementing an effective Content Management application is to establish a usable Metadata Model. Having a repository of data that users cannot search and access information from is no better than storing data on a simple file system. Let's look at some common models, in particular Dublin Core.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) has seen a surge of elevated attention in 2010. But this is not the only year-in-review highlight we point out as we close the DAM books this year.

Amazon added support for Adobe Flash Media Server 4 (news, site) on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

The Asia Pacific region is seen as a growth market for cloud computing services, particularly starting in 2011. With business booming and competition becoming more intense, organizations will look for ways to cut costs and improve efficiency. Given the market potentials, Oracle (news, site) is launching its cloud solutions center in Beijing, meant as a development platform for its regional partners.

When people think about creating new digital assets, products like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Avid Media Composer or Sound Forge Pro are the professional’s first choice -- depending on the task at hand. Many of these products include a workflow management application which allows users to create projects, share files and apply some level of versioning to the files. Unfortunately however, not all products work together during the creation process.  

Content comes in many flavors and each type of content has its specific rules for digital asset management. For instance, among other things, video content demands fast transfers. The guys at MediaSilo know this and recently they have integrated their video content management system with FileCatalyst.

Continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific region, Brightcove (news, site) has recently announced the launch of its Australia headquarters in Sydney, citing a fast-growing market for on-demand video in the country. Brightcove also announced partnerships with clients in various industries, such as real estate, media and fashion.

Video hosting platform Vzaar gets itself some high-profile investment in the form of Oliver Stone. So what does the great director see in this company's future and its new video platform?