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.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Last month, an article on CMSWatch.com by Theresa Regli discussed the difficulty of assessing how a DAM system will perform on a typical corporate laptop as compared with what the vendor uses to demonstrate their product at a sales pitch. In particular the thorny subject of older browsers and devices that don’t support Flash (e.g. [...]
A number of open source DAM solutions are now being offered across all platforms now by a variety of vendors. Daydream has always used an open source model for our FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager and in general this is a positive development. Several commentators, however, have raised concerns about the nature of the solutions provided [...]
