Our colleagues in Daydream’s FocusOPEN division have released an updated 3.4.2 edition with a range of new features. FocusOPEN was originally developed by Daydream and was spun-off into a separate business unit at the end of 2011. More details are available on the blog of the Digital Asset Manager website.
Today we officially launched the 3.4.1 release of our .NET Open Source Digital Asset Management System, FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. It’s over 3 months since the last edition (3.3.9.5) and we took the beta updates through several strenuous testing sessions with our development team and volunteers from the FocusOPEN Developer Network. The reason for the [...]
Having recently published a report for purchasing managers that explains some best practice recommendations for reviewing digital asset management systems, we decided to devote a separate article on the role of vendor selection consultants and how external advisory service providers can be used in the vendor selection process. There has been a fair amount of [...]
Today we added to our growing range of Digital Asset Management Whitepapers a new report aimed at purchasing managers who have to review DAM systems as part of a corporate purchasing exercise. “DAM System Reviews: A Buyer’s Guide To Procurement Best Practices” describes a framework we have used in our consulting work that helps businesses [...]
Today we released a new white paper about managing and costing DAM projects. We have written the report partly in response to the narrow focus of many of the RFPs we have to review (either in a consultative capacity or when responding to them ourselves). So often we see RFPs that are merely wish-lists of [...]
We are pleased to announce the release of a major update to our open source FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager today. The 3.3.9 release not only has some great new features but also introduces some core infrastructure changes to provide greater flexibility and control for developers using the platform. Many members of our growing development community [...]
We have released a report today entitled In-Source or Outsourcing Digital Asset Management Hosting: A Guide For Marketing Managers that aims to guide marketing managers engaged in DAM projects through the often difficult process of deciding whether or not to run their DAM system in-house, on their organisation’s own hosting facilities, or whether they should [...]
We launched a new version of FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager today. Version 3.3.7 includes new features requested by our user community and some ports from the enterprise edition we use with many of our corporate clients: Shared lightboxes allowing users to collaborate more closely on lightboxes(rather than just copying them to a target account). Lightboxes [...]
UK cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, hit the nail on the head in a statement released last week where he identified that ‘for too long, Government has wasted vast amounts on ineffective and duplicate IT systems‘. While not everyone may agree with his politics, it is an observation that will no doubt resonate not only [...]
Today, 22nd December, we officially launch the stable public open source edition of FocusOPEN (v 3.3.4) which can be downloaded free of charge from the FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager product site: http://www.digitalassetmanager.com/ What we have been very surprised at is the large number of registrations from people wanting to download the deployment packages and/or source [...]
