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Sharpening the dull Digital Asset Management functionality in SharePoint

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

Updated Technology Vendor Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 30-Jan-2012

We've just updated our longstanding "subway map" for 2012.

Biggest changes have come around acquisitions (e.g., HP), and ... Continue Reading

New evaluations of Avid Interplay MAM and MerlinOne DAM

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

2012 DAM and MAM Market Overview - WAVE, Avid, and North Plains making the biggest changes

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

Can MediaBeacon keep up?

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

Digital marketing making inroads in India

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

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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

2012 Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Dec-2011

It's that time of year for our team of Real Story Group analysts to reveal our 2012 predictions, where we try to predict what the future holds in the technology world ... Continue Reading

How accurate were our 2011 predictions?

Added By Tony Byrne on 5-Dec-2011

Like all analyst firms, every year-end we make predictions. I think we're fairly unique, though, in going back to see how our earlier predictions fared. Let's see whether our predictions for 2011 actually panned out. These were the twelve predictions we made in December, 2010 ... Continue Reading

Storage Wars in the Cloud

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 17-Nov-2011

OK, I'll admit it. One of my guilty pleasures in recent years has been the American television show, Storage Wars ... Continue Reading

Talking Digital Asset Management in Europe

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

Elvis DAM: Handsome resident of the Dutch software belt - with room for gezelligheid

Added By Irina Guseva on 26-Oct-2011

And the second new entrant to our DAM/MAM research I want to introduce you to is Elvis DAM by Dutchsoftware. Random fact: I collect KLM Blue Delft miniature houses. Elvis joins my “Dutch vendors I review” collection. ... Continue Reading

Adobe Scene7 and CQ DAM - sibling rivalry or happy marriage?

Added By Irina Guseva on 24-Oct-2011

In our recently updated Digital & Media Asset Management Report version 4.0, you'll find several new entrants to our research that I want to introduce to you. Let's start with Adobe Scene7 ... Continue Reading

Welcome Kashyap

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Oct-2011

I'm delighted to announce that we've added a new technology analyst, Kashyap Kompella, to our team.  Kashyap has deep experience in many of the technologies we cover, and brings a broad mix of industry, architectural, and usability perspectives ... Continue Reading

Adobe MAX 2011 impressions: WEM and DAM out of focus

Added By Irina Guseva on 13-Oct-2011

Last week I attended the Adobe MAX annual customer conference in Los Angeles. My primary interest revolved around WCM/WEM and DAM, and checking out how the acquisitions of Day Software and Omniture are getting integrated. To remind you, we cover Adobe’s CQ5 product in our WCM evaluations, and CQ DAM and Scene7 in our DAM report. ... Continue Reading

Mobile-Enabling Enterprise Applications

Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Oct-2011

Once you decide to mobile-enable your enterprise information systems, the key question you need to address is whether to provide mobile access via Mobile Web (browser-based interfaces) or by offering downloadable applications ("apps").

This is a longstanding debate and proponents of both approaches will point to numerous benefits ... Continue Reading

Major DAM / MAM Research Update: Elvis, Scene7, North Plains, Extensis, Widen

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

Microsoft SharePoint in 2011 - 2012: State of the Nation Webinar

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 28-Sep-2011

Next Wednesday I will be hosting a free SharePoint-themed webinar. My intent is to look at SharePoint in 2011, its victories to date and its challenges ahead. ... Continue Reading

HP and Autonomy - a marriage made in hell?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Sep-2011

This past week HP fired their CEO Leo Apotheker, making him the third CEO in a row to part with HP prematurely. But of all the departures this one one is the least surprising by far. His announcement that he was to buy Autonomy for a staggering $10.3 Billion -- far more than anyone else figured the firm was worth -- and spin of its market leading PC division was surely the most spectacular act of self-immolation in a long time ... Continue Reading

Understanding Autonomy's Family Tree

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 9-Sep-2011

Since HP decided to buy Autonomy for just over $10 Billion dollars, there has been a lot of discussion over the acquisitions that Autonomy itself made over the years to expand its portfolio of products and grow its revenues. ... Continue Reading

Epic floods, covered bridges, and the importance of archiving

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

Helping you avoid the mistakes of others

Added By Sanjeev Gupta on 22-Aug-2011

Having worked with a broad spectrum of technology customers over the years, I've come to see broad common patterns in the mistakes that most large enterprises make -- be it during the technology selection process, RFI/RFP process, or project execution itself ... Continue Reading