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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 Apoorv Durga on 3-May-2012
The esteemed Financial Times is ready to pull the plug on its iOS native apps and instead replace them with an HTML5-based app.
Reportedly, the so called "Apple Tax" -- whereby developers pay 30% of revenues to Apple -- along with lack of access to customer data, are the main reasons prompting FT.com to follow others ... 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 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 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 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 Matt Mullen on 2-Mar-2012
CoreMedia's recent announcement that are targeting Media and Entertainment customers with set of specific -- albeit somewhat vague -- new functionalities for that segment raises an interesting question ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 27-Feb-2012
Every now and then a software company just up and dies. It doesn't happen often, and usually the tell-tale warning signs have been accumulating for years. As you the customer assess your current and potential crop of technology suppliers, it's worth reviewing autopsy reports for lessons learned.
The latest victim in the Web Content & Experience Management (WCXM) space is Refresh Software, who finally called it quits ... 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 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 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
Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2011
This question is popping up pretty frequently among our advisory subscribers. It's a subtle question in some ways, but also laden with great import for both intranet/collaboration managers and public website marketers ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 11-Jul-2011
Sitecore has acquired Pectora, an erstwhile partner that has solutions for print publishing. ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-May-2011
One of the most common questions an enterprise technology buyer will ask of a vendor or supplier is, "What do you know about our business?" It's the kind of question that one gets asked in job interviews too, and just like that personal situation, how the question gets answered can have a huge impact on the result ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 13-Apr-2011
MarkLogic is a fairly unique platform that can provide impressive infrastructural services for XML storage and processing. It's also very good at searching its own repository. So why don't we review MarkLogic in our Search & Information Access research? ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Mar-2011
What could have been a snoozefest in fact turned into a full-on attack of the value and promise of Cloud Computing ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 15-Dec-2010
Of late, many WCM as well as Portal vendors are touting their capabilities for more closely aligning content management and presentation management. Frankly, I wonder what took them so long. After all, what good is content if it cannot be delivered and consumed? In my opinion ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 8-Nov-2010
Last week, Oracle announced its acquisition of Art Technology Group (ATG) for $ 1 Billion. At this price, it might appear smaller than other, better-known acquisitions such as those of Sun Microsystems ($ 7.4 B), BEA Systems ($ 8.5 B), and PeopleSoft ($ 10.5 B in 2004), yet it's an important acquisition, nevertheless ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Sep-2010
Next week (Thursday 23rd) I will be in New York to speak at the new Creatasphere DAM conference. I must confess I am really looking forward to this particular event as it sort of kicks off my personal event season, and does so in some style ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 10-Sep-2010
Dynamic Publishing Systems manage the assembly of reusable components for publishing, along with the delivery of aggregated content to multiple personalized channels. Some examples of Dynamic Publishing are: ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 30-Aug-2010
Last week, I attended two conferences in Delhi. Coincidentally, both of them were on similar topics. The first one, organized by Indian trade body, NASSCOM was about mobile Internet and appstores, while the second one was about mobile applications (although it ended up as a conference for sales pitches by device vendors) ... 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 Apoorv Durga on 28-Jul-2010
Adobe Systems today announced their intent to acquire Day Software. We've seen Adobe featuring in many Content Management RFPs and although they had some of the necessary pieces including Adobe Contribute and LiveCycle, they were never taken seriously as a Content Management player. An OEM deal with Alfresco a few years back though well intentioned didn't help much but this announcement will surely change the situation dramatically. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 10-Jun-2010
You may have noticed Facebook "Like" buttons spring up everywhere on the web the past few months ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 9-Jun-2010
Dassault Systèmes, a major product lifecycle management (PLM) vendor, has announced the acquisition of enterprise search vendor Exalead. Which of course leads to the two usual questions with any acquisition ... Continue Reading
Added By Apoorv Durga on 27-Apr-2010
FatWire recently announced two new products -- Gadget Server and Community Server -- both aimed at website visitors ... 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 Tony Byrne on 8-Mar-2010
Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Jan-2010
Today the Indian IT services giant Tata announced that it was to acquire BT Mosaic. It's an acquisition worth examining in a little more detail, since we will likely see more of the same over the coming years. ... Continue Reading
Added By Adriaan Bloem on 31-Aug-2009
It's one of those elusive dreams of web content management: a completely metadata-driven publishing model. Especially when there's lots of content, and a variety of sites or channels targeting different audiences. Wouldn't it be great if content more or less automatically found its way to the right places? ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Aug-2009
Anyone who's been involved in a corporate-taxonomy project knows exactly how the terms "tedium," "tiresome," and "taxonomy" are related. Each derives from the other. ... Continue Reading
Added By Ann Rockley on 29-Jun-2009
UK-based SDL remains in a spending mood. The trend began with acquiring longtime ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Jun-2009
In the past week two open source portal initiatives decided to merge efforts: going forward eXo will now be a part of the Red Hat JBoss Portal ... Continue Reading
Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Jun-2009
At CMS Watch we evaluate an awful lot of products, and making sense of all this research can be a challenge. ... Continue Reading
Added By Kas Thomas on 2-Jun-2009
One of the most striking trends underway in the DAM space right now (indications of which were abundantly present in the exhibitor booths at this year's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium in New York) is the rush toward Adobe Flex-based client interfaces ... Continue Reading
Added By Tony Byrne on 6-Oct-2008
Some big news happened a couple of weeks ago that seems to have gone by without much notice ... Continue Reading
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