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Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Apr-2012
My UK colleague Matt Mullen and I will be hosting three sessions at the upcoming Internet World conference in London, April 24 - 26. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Mar-2012
Today we release version 4.2 of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report, which includes 25+ new pages of detailed evaluations of four very different vendors in the DAM & MAM markets. ... Continue Reading
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
Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Sep-2010
If there is anything I follow just as closely if not more closely than the world of content management, it is the world of food. If I'm not talking to customers about DAM vendors or watching demos of the latest software, you can safely bet I'm either shopping for food, cooking, hosting friends for a lavish multi-course meal ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Aug-2010
I'll be hosting a webinar next week, talking about Digital Asset Management ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Aug-2010
I'll be attending and speaking at the two Henry Steward Conferences on Digital Asset Management this fall in Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition to a presentation on what's new in DAM technology (with an updated focus on mobile), I'll be ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 2-Aug-2010
As a digital asset management analyst, one of the most common questions I get is, "Why doesn't Adobe have its own DAM?" ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 27-May-2010
Every time the last Thursday of the month rolls around, I'm reminded of the fun and interesting crowd that gathers at the Hoxton Hotel in London for the Last Thursday CMS social events ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-May-2010
Today I'm excited to announce the release of a major update to our Digital Asset Management evaluation research stream ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-May-2010
I've recently been using the analogy of selecting wine to describe the challenges of selecting software. To my delight, the analogy is catching on - to the point that within the Twitterverse, I've been dubbed a ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-May-2010
My colleague Alan Pelz-Sharpe and I frequently engage in friendly debate. Recently, we've been discussing the pros and cons of using scoring spreadsheets in the vendor evaluation process ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Apr-2010
In a little less than a month, I'll be doing a half-day workshop in New York City as part of the annual Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Apr-2010
One of my favorite parts of my job is the educational aspect - helping people new to content technology understand what it does and how it works. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Apr-2010
A question often asked by people learning about search technology is the difference between enterprise and federated search. It is not the simplest question to answer ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Mar-2010
I've noticed while acting as an advisor on several recent digital asset management procurements that there is often confusion on the part of buyers as to the difference among what I call the "three tiers" of DAM end-user applications ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Mar-2010
The annual Internet World UK event in London is always one of my favorite shows to attend each year. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Mar-2010
This week, we've updated all 20+ of our search vendor evaluations. My colleague Adriaan Bloem, who obsessively tests search tools and interviews end-users of search systems ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Mar-2010
Apparently Wednesday, March 24th was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women's contributions to technology. I confess complete blindness to this fact, until I was kindly mentioned ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Feb-2010
The net-wide discussion over the Apple iPad's lack of Adobe Flash support has brought back a few memories for me: ones in which DAM tools with sexy Flash interfaces can't run in large, corporate locked-down environments ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 27-Jan-2010
Earlier this week I had an advisory call with one of our gold subscribers who's in the process of creating a short list of vendors for Web Content Management. A US-based health care company ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Jan-2010
Today we release an update to our Search & Information Access subscription service. (You can download a free sample here.) ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Dec-2009
I was first given a preview of Open Text's new Flash-based DAM user interface over a year ago, in the fall of 2008. The release, at the time, was "imminent"; I even put a preview screen shot of the new version in the 2009 edition of our Digital & Media Asset Management research. Fourteen months later, customers of the product formerly known as Artesia are still waiting for v7.0 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Nov-2009
Earlier this year I caused quite a stir when I predicted the death of taxonomies. Taxonomists worldwide told me I was an idiot, nuts, completely delusional. Some were deeply concerned that their jobs were threatened, as if employers would change org charts based on my prediction. Others secretly told me they agreed ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Nov-2009
Last week I attended J. Boye's 5th annual conference in Aarhus, Denmark, which always attracts a high quality of speakers, and (unlike many other conferences) focuses on case studies and end-user implementation challenges ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Oct-2009
Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Sep-2009
I'm currently advising two Fortune Global 1000 companies on a vendor short list for their upcoming digital asset management procurement ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jul-2009
This week we released an update of our Search & Information Access Report 2009 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 22-Jul-2009
Today I took part in a lively panel about enterprise search at ACM's SIGIR (Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval) conference in Boston ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 2-Jul-2009
As Murraymania swept the UK, I settled into my seat on Court No. 2 last week, on Wimbledon's always-action-packed middle Saturday ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Jun-2009
Today we release a major update to our Digital & Media Asset Management research, in tandem with the Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York City ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Apr-2009
When I think of Earls Court, London, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the many Led Zeppelin concerts I grew up listening to that were recorded in this hallowed venue ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Apr-2009
WCM and DAM systems have historically been on two separate sides of the dance floor ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Apr-2009
The golf fans among us have already tuned into The Masters -- but not on our televisions... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Feb-2009
Today we release our 2009 Cross-Checktm chart for enterprise search and information access ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Feb-2009
In a little less than a month's time, I'll be teaching a half-day course on Enterprise Search Technology in London ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Jan-2009
I've heard too many people say DAM is "kind of like WCM" or "just like document management, but for pictures." ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Jan-2009
Today we release our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. In this new edition, we've greatly expanded our coverage of Minnesota, USA-based MediaBeacon... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 18-Dec-2008
I recently had the great fortune of taking a holiday trip around the diverse and beautiful country of South Africa ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 18-Dec-2008
Today we release our half-day education course about Digital & Media Asset Management, or DAM... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Dec-2008
Digital Asset Management vendor ClearStory announced last week that they've been acquired by The FeedRoom, a web video management software and services provider ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Dec-2008
This week, my colleagues Jarrod, Alan and I will be at the Online Information Conference in London... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 5-Nov-2008
Recently a buyer of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report contacted me with a few questions about vendors they're considering ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Oct-2008
At CMS Watch we love Italy and many things Italian.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 8-Oct-2008
A former colleague of mine, one of the smartest engineers I have ever had the pleasure of working with, recently attended "developer training" for WCM vendor ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Sep-2008
There's a number of reasons SharePoint doesn't cut it for enterprise Digital Asset Management... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 15-Aug-2008
In collaboration with our partner, KM World, my colleague Tony Byrne will lead a free webinar, How to Evaluate SharePoint for the Enterprise, on the 28th of August at 2 p.m. US ET / 11 a.m. PT. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Aug-2008
I'm thrilled to invite you to two seminars and a full-day conference on enterprise search, findability and information architecture, taking place next month in the wonderful cities of Copenhagen and London ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 29-Jul-2008
Today we release a new edition of our Web Analytics Report 2008, a Basic Edition. This new edition focuses on the smaller players in the web analytics space ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 24-Jul-2008
A few weeks ago, I was having drinks with a friend of mine who'd recently separated from her husband. She hadn't told many people the news as of a week before we met up, but then she changed her relationship status on Facebook ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Jul-2008
I recently wrote an article for DOCUMENT Magazine summarizing the state of the digital asset management industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2008
Last week I wrote about Open Text's acquisition of eMotion, and may have added to the confusion over the alphabet soup of DAM, MAM, and MOM ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Jul-2008
On the heels of my colleague Alan's report of Open Text's purchase of Spicer, the next sign along the company's acquisition trail was posted yesterday with the acquisition of media asset management vendor eMotion ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-Jul-2008
Late last month I had the pleasure of attending the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium in London, UK, where I presented a summary of our research recently ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Jun-2008
As the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management Symposium kicks off in London, we comment in today's press release on a few areas where DAM vendors are coming up short ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jun-2008
Software-as-a-Service has an especially strong case in the area of Digital Asset Management, where the buyer is often a marketing manager or creative team with a fixed monthly budget and little to no IT support. But not all SaaS is created equal ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-May-2008
As the Henry Stewart DAM Conference kicks off in New York City today, CMS Watch has quite a bit to say about the state of the DAM industry ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 9-May-2008
The worlds of SEO and enterprise search are not as far apart as you might think. Let me explain. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 7-May-2008
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 11-Apr-2008
There's nothing like promising a Playboy centerfold to drive people (well, men mostly) to an upcoming technology conference ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 1-Apr-2008
Great theater. Awesome Indian food. Hyde Park in springtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-Mar-2008
At the AIIM Expo in Boston and Documation Paris earlier this month, I met with several enterprise search vendors, old and new. There's a growing movement afoot to de-throne the old guard ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 21-Mar-2008
My colleagues Tony Byrne and Adriaan Bloem recently wrote up a summary of pros and cons, as well as offered sound advice, regarding the Google Search Appliance ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Mar-2008
Much like "le brunch" has infiltrated the Paris restaurant scene, Anglophone phrases like le CRM, l'ERP and l'ECM were omnipresent at Documation Paris this week. So were vendors at the conference podium ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Mar-2008
Conference events and tracks are getting nichey-er and more specific, and rightly so, as every year the knowledge we accumulate about content technology gets deeper and more nuanced, which begs more specific presentations and probing questions from implementers ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 19-Feb-2008
As my scrupulous colleague Adriaan Bloem pointed out last month about Google, sometimes vendors and their marketing evolve more quickly than products themselves ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 17-Feb-2008
Kevin Kelly recently wrote a superb commentary on what adds value to digital content, called "Better Than Free." Free content is everywhere, so what compels, and will compel, people to pay for it? ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 14-Feb-2008
Today we release an update and a new edition of our Enterprise Search Report 2008.... ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 6-Feb-2008
More quiet than the news of Microsoft's acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer was the recent announcement that enterprise search vendor Endeca has received $15 million in funding from the venture arms of Intel and SAP ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 30-Jan-2008
We all have our computer time-wasters. For some it's games, for others, IM'ing with friends. For me, it's the geo-web ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 20-Jan-2008
We'd like to welcome Barbara Feldman, our new Customer Relationship Manager, who joined us on January 2nd ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 15-Jan-2008
Today we released the 2008 Web Analytics Report, evaluating 15 web analytics products. While you may have heard of ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Dec-2007
There's no time like the holidays for catching up on back issues of The Economist (don't worry, we're baking cookies, too), and this morning I found myself engrossed by a tale of pattern matching ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 12-Dec-2007
We're currently conducting research into the Digital Asset Management marketplace, and we're seeking a couple of good independent experts to help us out ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 10-Dec-2007
Last week, after giving a keynote on the current and future of Enterprise Search at the Online Information conference in London, the first question asked of me was, "Why shouldn't I just get Google? It's what my boss thinks is best." ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Aug-2007
Like great bottles of wine or legendary concert performances, there are occasional taxonomy projects I hear about after the fact that I'm very sorry I missed. Recently in The New York Times, society and science columnist John Tierney reflected on the results of a taxonomy project at the University of Texas that attempted to classify all the reasons why people have sex ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 16-Jul-2007
Recently I chatted with SchemaLogic CEO Jeff Dirks about the companys new spin in the marketplace. The software formerly known as "taxonomy management software" is now "BSM" software or "Business Semantics Management." Call it what you will, it's still about managing categories and vocabularies for your content, which we all could do a bit better ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 4-Jul-2007
At last week's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in London, a lively crowd joined my talk on vendor-neutral approaches to selecting content technologies. The themes and challenges in the DAM ("digital asset management") space aren't much different from those in the larger ECM arena: ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Jun-2007
On June 28 & 29th, join me in London for the Henry Stewart Symposium on Digital Asset Management, Workflow Automation, and Marketing Efficiency & Effectiveness. I'll be speaking about scenario-based product selection. ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 25-May-2007
Over the years we've helped many enterprises select appropriate content technologies -- be it a Web CMS, Portal, Search tool, or a larger ECM Suite. We're now also pleased to offer Web Analytics advisory services (for buyers only, of course) ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 26-Apr-2007
A couple of months ago, I got many reponses from fellow frustrated iPod owners to my post about how bad metadata in iPods makes for a bad user experience. The same was true last week at the AIIM Expo, when during my taxonomy tutorial, the audience was quick to point out the problems they endured transfering bad metadata from CDs to their online jukebox ... Continue Reading
Added By Theresa Regli on 13-Mar-2007
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Added By Theresa Regli on 28-Dec-2006
Everyone has holiday traditions, and recently we were amused to learn that one of our clients invites employees to compose variations on show tunes, telling a tale of a project that transpired at the company during the past year. One late evening, as I listened to Miles Davis and Led Zeppelin while reviewing a CMS and portal RFP, inspiration struck. ... Continue Reading
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