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Digital Asset Management blog posts

Apoorv Durga

Adobe To Acquire Day - First Take - ECM Perspective

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

Tony Byrne

How to get the right vendors to respond to your RFP

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Jul-2010

Many of our enterprise research customers are reporting an interesting trend: fewer responses to their RFPs (a.k.a., "tenders"). Even vendors they had at the top of their lists may decline to bid. This puzzles them ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Don't ogle search if you really want content management

Added By Tony Byrne on 8-Jul-2010

I'll agree with mega-vendor Autonomy on one key point: Search technology is really important. But is it so important that search functionality should dominate your choice in a content management system? ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

UK Budget Cuts and Public Sector IT

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jun-2010

In the UK today, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne will announce his emergency budget details. The one thing we know in advance is that this will contain some of the most severe cuts in recent history ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Get your updated vendor subway map

Added By Tony Byrne on 15-Jun-2010

Here's our latest take on the marketplaces we cover. We still can't fit all the vendors we evaluate, but we're getting closer ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Video: Meeting the System Integrator

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Jun-2010

I was myself once a systems integrator, and many of my friends still work for systems integrators. This is my roundabout way of saying sorry in advance for the following video ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM evaluation update - adding Fedora, Nuxeo, plus new versions from Autonomy and Open Text

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

Theresa Regli

Ask the software sommelier

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

Theresa Regli

Scoring spreadsheets, the bane of my life

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

Theresa Regli

Workshop in NYC - Selecting the best DAM for you

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

Theresa Regli

The willful ignorance of business users

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

Jarrod Gingras

Pardon the ECM Interruption

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 7-Apr-2010

This session will be a fast-paced debate exploring a variety of controversial ECM-related issues and trends ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Think you can you stump these consultants?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 1-Apr-2010

For the last several years, I've had the honor of hosting our Stump the Consultant panel at the info360: AIIM Expo ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Pathbreaking research focuses on Human Cloud

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Apr-2010

I'm delighted to announce today that we have just released new research on emerging technologies that will transfer live human beings to the Cloud ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Hiring a UK/Europe Account Executive

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010

As we continue to grow globally, we're looking for a motivated account exec in the UK or Europe ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Selecting Wine and Software

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 31-Mar-2010

Theresa Regli recently recorded this video using one of her favorite analogies: selecting the right enterprise software is a lot like selecting the right wine to have with dinner ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Core application versus corollary applications in DAM

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

Theresa Regli

Join me at Internet World in London

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

Theresa Regli

Girl Power

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

Tony Byrne

Finding the best vendor means treating bidders right

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Mar-2010

Is it a buyers' market for content technologies? Some enterprises believe that technology suppliers are so hungry for business that they will line up for kilometers to respond to an RFP. ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

What makes your project successful in the real world

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 19-Mar-2010

There are many ways to measure success of an information management project. Project leaders typically want to "help" your colleagues, but how do they know they're successful? ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Holistic Information Management

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 17-Mar-2010

Whilst recently working on a change management initiative for one of our multinational clients, I had a bit of an "aha!" moment. I was in the midst of explaining to the assembled team members how their future information management system ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What to look for when evaluating WCM and DAM workflow services

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Mar-2010

Yesterday we released a new advisory paper on workflow. The briefing focusses in particular on what you need to look for (and what you can dispense with) in Web CMS and Digital Asset Management environments ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Evaluating vendor proposals - Kill your spreadsheets

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 15-Mar-2010

As you may know, a lot of our work at the Real Story Group involves helping people make the right information management buying decisions. Not surprisingly, one of the most common areas where our customers seek our counsel is with vendor scoring and assessment methodologies ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Two new Advisory Papers for enterprise technology selection teams

Added By Tony Byrne on 1-Mar-2010

My colleague Alan has produced two short briefings of special interest to content technology selection teams ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

What is Content Management?

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Feb-2010

There's a question that keeps popping up around our industry: "What is Enterprise Content Management?" ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Which is better for you - platforms or products

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Feb-2010

Today we released a new advisory paper, "How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success." Subscribers to any of our EI Watch, SharePoint Watch, and CMS Watch research streams can ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Open Source is not always cheaper

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 23-Feb-2010

On the document-management shortlist of a mid sized publishing firm this month lay four bidders: a specialist incumbent, two household name vendors (IBM & Microsoft), and an open source option ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Not Buying Into Open Text and the Power of Three

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-Feb-2010

Mega-vendor Open Text announced today that it would acquire fellow Canadian vendor, NStein. NStein was known mostly for its text-mining / text analytics tools, but over the years took a circuitous route ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

SAP, EMC, and Open Text - Who cares?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Over the last few weeks there has been a flurry of media interest in the fact that SAP is reselling EMC Documentum and Open Text products. It's a flurry (bordering on blizzard) that is of little or no relevance to actual buyers of these software products ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Keeping it Real

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group! For my colleagues and I this is an exciting time, and part of a continuing adventure that I hope you will join. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

The value of the AS IS in Information Management Change

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 21-Feb-2010

One of the founding principals of business process change is the concept of understanding and defining the current "As Is" situation, before analyzing it and then constructing an ideal "To Be" situation. ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

EMC plus Fatwire - the DAM perspective

Added By Kas Thomas on 19-Feb-2010

The other shoe has finally dropped in the EMC-FatWire saga. EMC announced in will acquire a (minority) stake in Mineola, NY-based FatWire, who will remain one of few privately held pure-play WCM vendors ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Welcome to the Real Story Group

Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Feb-2010

Welcome to the Real Story Group. Today we cut over to our new website(s) ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Big changes coming at CMS Watch

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Feb-2010

Early next week, we will be re-launching this website, adding some new sites, and at a more fundamental level, revamping the way we serve our customers. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

ROI calculations are a joke

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Feb-2010

Our colleagues over at Forrester recently undertook some interesting research regarding content management investment attitudes in 2010 (DM, RM and WCM). The overall finding was along the lines one might expect ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Non-disclosure is a non-starter

Added By Kas Thomas on 4-Feb-2010

We've mentioned this a time or two before, but in recent dealings with a well-known WCM and DAM vendor there seemed to be some confusion about it, so perhaps it bears discussing one more time. We have a policy at CMS Watch of not signing NDAs with the vendors we evaluate ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

The trouble with DAM and your corporate laptops

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Vendor Tip: perform some basic research before disqualifying prospects

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 3-Feb-2010

Our job here is to advise buyers of technology, never vendors. But today I am going to make an exception and give the vendors out there a solid tip. Do your homework before responding to RFPs ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Seeking UK/Europe Sales and Customer Supt Exec

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Jan-2010

We're looking to hire a UK- or Europe-based (with native English) sales and support executive. You can ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Performance is a requirement, too

Added By Kas Thomas on 20-Jan-2010

Performance testing is a notoriously difficult undertaking. So much so, in fact, that it is sometimes not done at all, or only done when a performance problem arises in production, making some sort of investigation unavoidable ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

DAM moves - Tata acquires BT Mosaic

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

Kas Thomas

Have you considered the V in DAM?

Added By Kas Thomas on 18-Jan-2010

Last week, I blogged about the increasing trend toward verticalization in the Search & Information Access space. As you may know if you've been reading our Digital & Media Asset Management Research ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

How did our 2009 predictions fare?

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2009

Yesterday we issued our twelve predictions for 2010. Once again, I'll look back at our 2009 predictions and see how we did ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

2010 Content Technology Predictions

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 15-Dec-2009

With only a few weeks left in 2009, it's time for our team of CMS Watch analysts to reveal our 2010 predictions, where we make our best guesses as to what the Content Technology industry will hold for you in the new year ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Open Text delays DAM v7 (again)

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

Tony Byrne

Content Technology Vendor Map - 2010

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Dec-2009

We've just updated our "Content Technology Vendor Map" for 2010 ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Day sets up shop in Boston (where tech firms go to be acquired?)

Added By Kas Thomas on 24-Nov-2009

The greater Boston area, no stranger to the Web CMS world (with companies like Percussion, PaperThin, Telerik US, and Refresh Software already based in the area), is about to add yet another content management mainstay to its denizens: Switzerland-based Day Software ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

WCM and DAM in Denmark - J. Boye conference wrap up

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Is the SharePoint bubble going to burst?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 11-Nov-2009

As subscribers who received our recent advisory paper know, there is plenty to be excited about in SP2010, especially if you are a part of the SharePoint channel of resellers, consultants, developers, and system integrators. But over the past few weeks I have been noticing something of a shadow side to this excitement ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

See CMS Watch in Denmark

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 8-Oct-2009

We are rapidly approaching the fall conference season, and this year I am particularly excited about returning to beautiful Aarhus, Denmark ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Extensis, Canto, and turbulence at Autonomy

Added By Theresa Regli on 7-Oct-2009

Today we release an update to our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The vendor-analyst echo chamber game

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Sep-2009

Had a nice chat the other day with an old acquaintance who previously held two interesting jobs: as a practice lead at a major technology analyst firm, as well as heading up "analyst relations" for a major vendor. This is not uncommon; there's a revolving door between staff at vendors and analyst firms ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Tail wagging the ECM dog

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Sep-2009

Sometimes a secondary service or subsystem in a content management platform can gum everything up.  This came to mind when a couple of our advisory clients ran into trouble with some non-core -- but important -- services. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Making sense of ECM acronyms

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Sep-2009

One of the challenges we face at CMS Watch is the continuing need to bridge the gap between those new to ECM, and the deep industry insider knowledge that our subscribers seek ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM vendors vs. marketing agencies -- understanding the difference

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

Kas Thomas

Thoughts on the Future of Content Management

Added By Kas Thomas on 31-Aug-2009

Blogger Julian Wraith recently asked CMS pundits to comment on The Future of Content Management. This is a topic I get asked about a lot, not only by CMS Watch customers ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Adding structure to DAM and ECM

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 27-Aug-2009

"Unstructured Data" is the fancy term we use to refer to "Content." Historically we've employed this term to differentiate "structured" data (sitting in neat rows and columns in a database) from complex files that typically need attached metadata for essential context ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Cost of storage for ECM & DAM: Part 2

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 24-Aug-2009

I recently posted a piece regarding storage costs for ECM that seemed to garner some interest, so I thought I might just flesh out some of the assumptions I made in that a little further ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Storage costs for ECM and DAM Systems

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 13-Aug-2009

We have had an interesting internal discussion at CMS Watch the past few days, surrounding the cost of storage for content technology systems. It is a discussion that too few buyers have before embarking on costly ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Day reports sunny results for 1H2009

Added By Kas Thomas on 30-Jul-2009

It's always encouraging to hear that, despite the dour financial environment in which we live, there are companies making money in the WCM space ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Are we reaching the limits of UI buildout?

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jul-2009

As you can imagine, in the course of covering more than 200 software products, my colleagues and I get to see and touch a lot of different user interfaces, and one thing we've all noticed lately is the trend toward larger and larger interfaces ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

What Wimbledon and vendor selection have in common

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

Kas Thomas

The Coming Acronym Crisis

Added By Kas Thomas on 25-Jun-2009

As I talk to people in the content-technology industry (if I may call it that), I'm struck by a common thread that has begun to emerge in conversations involving roadmaps and futures ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

In DAM, Flashy does not always mean Flex

Added By Kas Thomas on 11-Jun-2009

I mentioned in an earlier post (about the recent Henry Stewart DAM Symposium) that one of the big trends right now in the DAM world is a shift toward client apps built on Adobe Flex technology ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

At Henry Stewart DAM Symposium: A Grey New World

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

Theresa Regli

DAM suppliers make big promises for H2 2009

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

Tony Byrne

When customers are unreasonable

Added By Tony Byrne on 27-May-2009

At CMS Watch, we're advocates only for you, the technology customer. But sometimes the customer is unreasonable ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Why Open Text bought Vignette -- the real story

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 7-May-2009

This morning as I awoke at an ridiculously early hour (jet lag), to find my mailbox full of questions from journalists, commentators, and CMS Watch research subscribers asking for my take on the deal. ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Adobe: an elephant in the DAM room?

Added By Kas Thomas on 4-May-2009

Usually, as an analyst, I'm on the receiving side of briefings, but yesterday I gave one to a CMS Watch subscriber wanting to know more about ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Join us at Internet World UK

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

Theresa Regli

A match made in Benelux: SDL Tridion and ADAM ink a deal

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

Kas Thomas

Open Text goes to the (eye) candy store

Added By Kas Thomas on 10-Apr-2009

Until Open Text came along and bought the company (in a deal announced earlier this week), Toronto-based Vizible Corporation was not exactly (ahem...) visible.... ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Why watch The Masters on your television?

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

Kas Thomas

We live in interesting DAM times

Added By Kas Thomas on 8-Apr-2009

We've been talking to a number of DAM vendors lately, and it's exciting to see so much new R&D and "capability buildout" going on at a time when activity in certain other spaces is (by comparison) rather slack, due to cost-cutting and other factors. ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Software versions - how strange the change from major to minor

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 18-Mar-2009

Spring is here, and, as in Autumn, this means new products released and new version numbers ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

DAM vendor Ancept under new ownership

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Mar-2009

Minnesota-based Ancept Media Server, LLC (one of the DAM ;vendors covered in our Digital and Media Asset Management Report) has been acquired by ViewCast Corporation ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Content Therapy Is Back!

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 6-Mar-2009

We've put together a schedule (pdf) of when we'll be presenting and when we'll be available for office hours at Booth #320 ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

New subscription options

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 5-Mar-2009

Based on feedback from you, we've modified our subscription options a bit ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

2009 Content Technology Vendor Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Mar-2009

Today we updated our semi-famous "subway map" for 2009 ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Will Lawsuits Impact the DAM Market?

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 2-Mar-2009

At last week's Henry Stewart Briefing on Digital Asset Management last week in Toronto, there was an prevailing theme ... Continue Reading

Jarrod Gingras

Discussing DAM in Toronto and Dallas

Added By Jarrod Gingras on 23-Feb-2009

Later this week in Toronto and next month in Dallas, I'll be sharing some of our latest research from ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Software vendors need to understand how the web really works

Added By Kas Thomas on 17-Feb-2009

It's amazing to me that so many of the vendors we cover at CMS Watch (even some that claim to have deep expertise in marketing and social-web sorts of things) still haven't figured out ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

When your vendor tells you to shut up

Added By Tony Byrne on 12-Feb-2009

Fine summary in CIO Magazine's blog, about various customer "gag orders" some major ERP vendors are attempting to impose contractually ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Picking the right supplier in a recession

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 12-Feb-2009

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -- so the saying goes ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

The case against Flex-based application UIs

Added By Tony Byrne on 2-Feb-2009

We're starting to see more vendors coming out with Flex-based user interfaces, sometimes extending them as full-blown desktop applications ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Day tries pay-as-you-go licensing

Added By Kas Thomas on 28-Jan-2009

SaaS is all the rage these days. It's the one "IT& trend for 2009" no pundit has missed. But the reality is that ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Is your vendor becoming a fine young cannibal?

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jan-2009

"Channel partners" are consulting or integration firms that implement or provide supplementary services to a software vendor's technology ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

What next for Interwoven?

Added By Kas Thomas on 23-Jan-2009

The announcement yesterday that Autonomy would buy Interwoven (a deal that should close in the second quarter of this year) has a number of interesting ramifications ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

CMS Watch is hiring...

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

We're looking to hire a full-time Marketing Associate ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Autonomy acquires Interwoven - A first take

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 22-Jan-2009

Today Autonomy announced that they intend to buy Interwoven. ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM vs. WCM - do you really understand the difference?

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Web Self Service - trend in 2009?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 10-Jan-2009

Customer-driven, web self-service will surely become a dominant theme for 2009. ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

EMC celebrates banner year by slashing jobs

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 8-Jan-2009

Quarterly results have never been so closely scrutinized as they are right now. ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM in 2009: enterprise, workgroup, and nothing in between....

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Who loves the incumbent vendor?

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 18-Dec-2008

One of my favorite little phrases is "double edged sword," and I found a perfect application for it recently, in a discussion of "incumbent" vendors ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Get smart and prepare for the impending DAM explosion

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

Tony Byrne

Looking for more E in SE

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008

Sitting through countless vendor demos to clients over the past couple of years, I've noticed a trend -- at least among Web CMS and Portal vendors -- of sales engineers ("SEs") emphasizing sales over engineering ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Looking ahead to 2009 -- and evaluating 2008

Added By Tony Byrne on 16-Dec-2008

Today we released our annual predictions for 2009 ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

The FeedRoom acquires DAM vendor ClearStory

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

Tony Byrne

When public agencies select software

Added By Tony Byrne on 19-Nov-2008

I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Government Computer News ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Let's meet at AIIM Expo 2009

Added By Tony Byrne on 17-Nov-2008

You can now review the schedule for the late March AIIM Expo 2009, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Interwoven in a bullish mood

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 14-Nov-2008

Yesterday I attended the Interwoven annual Analyst Day in New York. It was an interesting day in many respects ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

DAM vendor ClearStory to be acquired?

Added By Tony Byrne on 10-Nov-2008

At recent Henry Stewart DAM conferences a couple of ClearStory Systems customers mentioned to me that ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Cloud computing - Ellison rants, others reap

Added By Kas Thomas on 6-Nov-2008

Cloud computing is one of those buzzphrases that, like "redistribution of income," seems to make otherwise dispassionate people hyperventilate ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM vendors engage in analyst payola, then dissemble about it, too

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

Tony Byrne

When the project honeymoon ends

Added By Tony Byrne on 24-Oct-2008

I've been advising a large enterprise in the midst of a somewhat complex Web CMS and Component Content Management implementation ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Talking about Digital Asset Management in Chicago and LA

Added By Tony Byrne on 20-Oct-2008

We've really sensed over the last year that more and more enterprises are taking a closer look at Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

In praise of user group meetings

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-Oct-2008

I have decided that I love user group meetings, and I want to go to more, so please invite me to yours... ... Continue Reading

Adriaan Bloem

Meet us in Utrecht next week

Added By Adriaan Bloem on 12-Sep-2008

If you're a regular reader of this blog -- or our various reports -- the HartmanEVENT 2008 in Utrecht, The Netherlands next week ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

A new (and wearable) Content Technologies Subway Map

Added By Tony Byrne on 23-Jul-2008

A new season brings an updated vendor map: ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM industry rollup

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

Theresa Regli

MAM by any other name: more alphabet soup

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

Tony Byrne

Narrowcasting to your feed aggregator

Added By Tony Byrne on 11-Jul-2008

We're pleased that CMS Watch now covers ten different technologies, but I suspect that many of you take an interest in only one or two families of tools ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Open Text continues acquisition trail, gobbling up MAM vendor

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

Theresa Regli

Bam, WAM, thank you, DAM!

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

Kas Thomas

PDF now has a standard home, but whither XMP?

Added By Kas Thomas on 7-Jul-2008

Until a few days ago, Adobe's Portable Document Format was an open format in name only. The specification was freely available, to be sure, but PDF's development and direction remained firmly ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM vendors coming up short

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

Theresa Regli

North Plains and Interwoven offer DAM SaaS service -- or do they?

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

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

CMS Watch Competition Winner

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 2-Jun-2008

You may remember a while back we launched our little competition to come up with a new name for our vendor positioning chart ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Open source and Digital Asset Management

Added By Tony Byrne on 22-May-2008

Joseph Bachana recently posted in these pages an excellent article on the Digital Asset Management (DAM) marketplace. I disagreed somewhat, though, ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Adobe woos Sun recruits to the Flex cause

Added By Kas Thomas on 18-May-2008

In an earlier post, I commented on the (undeclared) "VM war" that seems to be shaping up between Adobe and Sun Microsystems ... Continue Reading

Alan Pelz-Sharpe

Vendor criticism of CMS Watch

Added By Alan Pelz-Sharpe on 16-May-2008

As you know at CMS Watch we write critical product evaluations to help you avoid expensive procurement and deployment mistakes ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

DAM's growing pains

Added By Kas Thomas on 15-May-2008

Digital Asset Management may not constitute a huge slice of the ECM pie, but it's a fast-growing slice ... Continue Reading

Kas Thomas

Thoughts on how to do your DAM homework

Added By Kas Thomas on 13-May-2008

Yesterday at the Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management & Marketing Operations Symposium in New York, I sat in on a DAM "best practices" talk given by onetime independent consultant Linda Tadic ... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Now more than ever, reading is not believing

Added By Tony Byrne on 13-May-2008

As a content producer, it has been fascinating to watch the evolution of channels where technology suppliers talk to technology customers ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

DAM: Always the bridesmaid, never the bride?

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

Kas Thomas

Routing around potholes in the DAM road

Added By Kas Thomas on 8-May-2008

In an earlier post, prompted by my recent involvement as co-lead analyst on The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, I commented on a few areas in which DAM and MAM vendors seem ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Announcing The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008

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

Kas Thomas

What WCM can learn from DAM

Added By Kas Thomas on 26-Apr-2008

Having spent a great deal of time in recent weeks talking to vendors, consultants, and customers in the Digital Asset Management space (in preparing for the upcoming release of our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008) ... Continue Reading

Theresa Regli

Don't DAM the little guys

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

Theresa Regli

Should your enterprise give a DAM?

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

Tony Byrne

OpenText Buys Artesia: Mainstreaming DAM?

Added By Tony Byrne on 3-Aug-2004

... Continue Reading

Tony Byrne

Stellent buys DAM vendor

Added By Tony Byrne on 25-Aug-2003

... Continue Reading

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