Digital Asset Managment News & Articles

The latest edition of ADAM Software's (news, site) digital asset management suite aims to remove the drudgery of managing assets and improve how it plays with other software.

What recession? That must be the question asked at Vyre (news, site) who has recorded a revenue rise of 81% compared to the first half of 2008 thanks to sales of its Unify CMS.

A new survey from the folks at the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) found that among 400+ respondents, IT decision makers and influencers don't know what they don't know. 89% of respondents think effective management of electronic information is “very important” or “important” to the long-term success of their organizations. In fact, not only do they think it's important, 63% think they are “very confident” or “confident” that they could prove their electronic information is “accurate, accessible, and trustworthy.”

Sure, you know that information management is important. You might even think that all your information is legitimate and reliable. Think again.

Last week was the first face-to-face meeting of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee (TC). From my perspective, it was a very productive gathering and allowed for a number of highly constructive discussions. In the following write-up I do my best to retrace the gist of the conversations around the topics I found most interesting, which in some cases were conversations I had with just one or two people.

The outlook from these discussions, and from the scope of the spec itself, is very positive. I believe that within a year CMIS will start to actively redefine the world of content management systems, which will be an opportunity both for big vendors who will see easier adoption of their solutions by customers concerned by lock-in or interoperability issues, and for smaller vendors whose products will be able to take advantage of a much broader spectrum of connectors to third-party systems.