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Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-May-2012
As content technology analysts, we very often are asked about digital rights management by customers who are undertaking Digital Asset Management projects. Specifically, they want to know more about the depth of the DRM functionality available in DAM software products in the marketplace and whether/when they need specialist DRM solutions to meet their requirements ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 4-May-2012
At NAB, Dalet announced its release plan for Galaxy, which will be the updated version of its core MAM platform, and outlined the features to expect when the package eventually ships. Before you get excited, though, note the timeline: ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 1-May-2012
Previously, MAM was positioned as “super software” that can completely transform the processes, systems and operations of a media company. Now, Avid is more circumspect. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 30-Apr-2012
Part 1 of this series provided a quick run down of 9 MAM vendors. Here are 8 more ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 27-Apr-2012
Media Asset Management is a market that's coming out of hibernation and getting ready for prime time as media companies and broadcasters prepare themselves for a multi-platform world ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 26-Apr-2012
As they say in the ad world, "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." I'm afraid it will be a rough landing for integrated campaigns with many of the DAM products in the market. Currently, many of them ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 25-Apr-2012
As you have already heard a gazillion times, converting capital expenditure into operating expense is a key value proposition of cloud computing. Yes, but customers need to understand that cloud vendors have different payment models which can eat into any such potential benefits ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012
Recently, Jive software announced the release of Jive Gamification, an add-on to its enterprise social networking platform. Jive is OEMing the module from a vendor called Bunchball that specializes in gamification software. Jive's version and is an extension of "Nitro," Bunchball's software platform for such things ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 24-Apr-2012
Art helps us to understand the world we live in. We can in fact think of art as metadata about the world (and artists as metadata experts of the human condition). Art is also ahead in showing us the path to the future, and digital art may provide some clues to the future in the content management world ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Apr-2012
Slightly modifying what the ancient Greeks said, you cannot dip your finger twice in the same (activity) stream. There is a constant ferment of activity in the E2.0 space, and ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 16-Apr-2012
Official word is not yet out (weekends in France start early, right?) but the co-founder & ex-CEO of French social software vendor blueKiwi confirmed its acquisition by systems integrator Atos, also of French Origin ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 15-Apr-2012
Surprisingly for a field that is rich in technical and engineering talent, the media and broadcast sectors are definitely not early adopters of new IT technologies (if they adopt at all!) and models. But now as broadcasters look to boost their bottom line, they are increasingly exploring whether and how they can leverage cloud technologies and models, as media systems consultant Al Kovalick points out here. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Apr-2012
Your friendly neighborhood Walmart may perhaps be the best kept secret in the world of cloud and content management. Walmart is already the largest distributor of videos in the offline world, and now with the upcoming roll out of the disk to digital (D2D) initiative, it is turning into a content management vendor for videos in the cloud ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 12-Apr-2012
Social networking vendor Yammer is a strong contender for the "Twitter in the Enterprise" crown. However, as subscribers to our social collaboration research know, just being a micro-blogging / activity stream service (even if you are the most well-known game in town) no longer suffices. Use cases around Enterprise Conversation may seem like the low hanging fruit of the social / collaboration initiatives. As adoption and maturity of social software increases, enterprises are increasingly looking beyond these to more advanced and complex collaboration use cases ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 3-Apr-2012
There is an oft-repeated story about the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and the dancer Isadora Duncan.
Ms. Duncan suggested the exciting possibilities of their marriage: "Think of our child; with your brains and my body, what a wonder it would be."
Bernard Shaw replied, ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 30-Mar-2012
Enterprises may be just now waking up to the promise and perils of video but media and broadcast companies have always been trying to manage video (and audio) content. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 8-Mar-2012
We just released an update to our Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software Report which evaluates nineteen Enterprise 2.0 vendors. Version 4.1 includes updated reviews of three software suites (Jive, Socialtext, blueKiwi) and two specialists (MindTouch, Mediawiki).
Here’s a quick snapshot of what you’ll find in this update: ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Feb-2012
"Gamification" is the buzzword du jour. Many enterprises looking to socialize their digital workplace and consumer-facing applications are investigating whether gamification makes sense for them. A closer look at the topic suggests that both optimism and skepticism are in order ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 10-Feb-2012
Jive software announced its 2011 financial results this week. Although our 360-degree vendor evaluations dwell at length on the products and real-world customer experiences, we also keep an eye on vendor financials to understand their stability and viability, and raise red flags if required ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 2-Feb-2012
It is an understatement to say that Sharepoint has become a nearly ubiquitous platform for workplace collaboration. Yet, as our technology evaluation subscribers know, Sharepoint may be omnipresent but definitely not omnipotent. An enterprise cannot just survive on Sharepoint for all its unstructured content needs, since there are significant functionality gaps in the Sharepoint armor ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Jan-2012
We recently attended the Click Asia Summit in Mumbai, a gathering for digital and social media marketers in the region. Here are the mantras and maxims, tidbits and trivia from the event ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 20-Dec-2011
There is usually a common theme that drives M&A in the technology sector and this season it is the "cloud." For example, in the last couple of months Oracle bought RightNow (cloud-based customer service) and IBM acquired DemandTec (cloud-based retail analytics). The trend seems to be spreading to the social software space as well ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 13-Dec-2011
A recent conversation with a large global enterprise about their Digital Asset Management project reminded me of the Zen Kōan – "Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" The project in question has weathered some turbulence ... Continue Reading
Added By Kashyap Kompella on 16-Nov-2011
Amidst all the talk of gloom and doom in Europe, we present an article where the words “Europe” and “Crisis” don’t have to be uttered in the same breath...
The Europe edition of the Creatasphere Digital Asset Management conference in the Hague brought together DAM customers, vendors, and consultants for a few days. Bringing this event to Europe is fitting ... Continue Reading
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