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Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Feb-2012
This week we publish an Advisory Paper for our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers about key considerations when selecting a Content Delivery Network or an Online Video Platform. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Jan-2012
Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In addition to insights on DAM Trends for 2012, we now have an in-depth 12-page evaluation of Avid's Interplay MAM, and a first look at MerlinOne. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jan-2012
Today we publish our 2012 Digital & Media Asset Management Market Overview. Things are markedly more exciting in the DAM & MAM world as we start 2012, versus the relatively calmer 2011. Product development has picked up, in particular among mid-size and large DAM vendors, as they attempt to beef up their feature offerings to cover more of the digital & media management spectrum ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Jan-2012
MediaBeacon is one of the bright and blinking stars of the Digital Asset Management world. Led by the ebullient and opinionated Jason Bright, the Minneapolis-based company has a much larger footprint on the market than the small size of the company would suggest. MediaBeacon's DAM tool is among the industry's more flexible and standards-based, and though largely focused on brand management scenarios, the company made extensive efforts to add video management features over the last 18 months ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Dec-2011
Because I completed my university degree and started working full-time at the age of 20 (I wanted nothing more than to finish school and be out in the "real world"), I am not particularly impressed by copious degrees, professional certifications, or letters after a person's name ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Sep-2011
We just released a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report. In this update, version 4.0, we've added: ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 31-Aug-2011
As Irene crawled up the coast, we Vermonters were ready for high winds and power outages, but never expected our rivers to crest beyond historic levels. Just about every story of data, information, or historic loss starts with the phrase “we never expected.” I never expected to experience an earthquake when I was in Virginia last week, either ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Aug-2011
The most common question I get from our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers these days is, "Should I stick with OpenText?" In fact, three of our subscribers asked me this in the past week. Mega-ECM vendor OpenText are the current owners of "Media Manager" -- the product formerly known as Artesia, now dressed up in new, Flash-fronted clothes ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Aug-2011
The DAM industry will soon gather in Chicago for the annual Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management event, Sept. 12 & 13th. One of the stars of the recent HS event in London was Real Story Group customer Lisa Hayward of Shell International, who presented a case study of their recently-launched new DAM ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Jun-2011
This week, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM conference in New York, we released an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Research. New to our mid-market challengers category is the fastest growing DAM/MAM vendor in Europe, Austria-based celum. A key competitor for European players such as ADAM ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-May-2011
As I prepare my plenary session presentation for the upcoming Henry Stewart conferences in New York and London, I'm doing a lot of research on how well digital & media asset management (DAM) tools adapt to mobile environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-May-2011
In Boston, USA for most of the month of May, I've been following with interest a local story about former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi. A federal grand jury recently indicted the former Speaker and three of his associates on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud, after DiMasi allegedly wielded his power to procure multimillion-dollar contracts for a software company, Cognos ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-May-2011
You may not think that technology markets have seasons, but they do — and spring is digital asset management season in the Northern Hemisphere. There's many conferences focused on digital asset and media management during the spring, and we at Real Story Group have been in the thick of updating and expanding our DAM evaluation research ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Mar-2011
A few weeks ago, I stood transfixed by the Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre in Paris. I took in the rather sparse exhibit around the stele for at least 20 minutes, reading the French translation (no English one was provided), and closely examining the cuneiform carved into the stele. It was quiet; a few people asked me to take their picture with the object. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Feb-2011
I'll be in London in a few weeks attending the Technology for Marketing & Advertising conference and Online Advertising Expo at Earls Court Two. On day two, Wednesday March 2nd, I'll be talking about technology for brand management, highlighting some of our latest research findings in Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Feb-2011
Today we've published an advisory paper called "When will DAM 'Lite' suffice?" This analysis emerged out of discussions with subscription customers about the digital asset management services now available within web content management technology platforms. Our customers sometimes ask us if they can use their WCM or document management system for their growing DAM needs. And then there's the constant question, "Can I use SharePoint as my DAM?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 3-Feb-2011
In the nearly three years since we first began in-depth research into the Digital & Media Asset Management market, I've been nothing short of fascinated by the process of uncovering more and more details about DAM vendors and their tools. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 31-Jan-2011
Well, it's time to retire the Twitter hash tag #GuessIrinasNewJob. I'm thrilled to announce that as of today, we're doubling the girl power factor on the Real Story Group analyst team with the addition of Irina Guseva ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Dec-2010
I'm excited to wrap up the year by writing a "State of the Market" on DAM. This has been a very busy year for us here -- our DAM subscriber numbers increased substantially and our customer inquiries for personalized help in a DAM procurement were near-constant. Could it be that DAM might finally be hitting the mainstream? ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Nov-2010
At any given time, I'm in the process of helping three or four Real Story Group research subscribers through a procurement process. Oftentimes, the most complicated part of the process isn't creating an RFP, determining the short list, putting together the evaluation team or use case scenarios. It's normalizing the pricing ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 23-Nov-2010
Next week, my colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe and I will be hosting several sessions at the Online Information conference at London's Olympia. Based on recent research conducted for our enterprise search and digital asset management evaluations, I'll be speaking about ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Nov-2010
We've released a number of updated product and vendor evaluations within our enterprise search & information access research stream this week. Apoorv Durga, Adriaan Bloem, and I are seeing many search vendors broadening their capabilities. But as usual, with more complexities come more potential implementation pitfalls and challenges ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Oct-2010
I've never been a Hollywood kind of gal. I'd rather read a book than watch a movie, hardly own any makeup, shrug at the sight of of anyone famous (well, except perhaps when I almost walked into Paul McCartney in London a few years ago), and would rather wear a classic black suit than waste time and money on the latest fashion. So, it's not without a bit of hesitation and extra consideration of my wardrobe that I'll pack my bag for my first Hollywood stage appearance, at next month's Henry Stewart Conference on Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Sep-2010
If you're an end-user of Adobe's Creative Suite (CS), which includes such applications at Photoshop and Illustrator, you're likely aware of the furor over the termination of support for Version Cue that coincided with the release of CS version 5 earlier this year ... Continue Reading
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