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Added Alan Pelz-Sharpe, lead analyst for Enterprise Content Management and author of The ECM Suites Report 2008, “This isn’t only the case with DAM, but even with some ECM suites that boast workflow and business process automation as a core competency.” Adds Pelz-Sharpe, “DAM may need to take its cue from other systems by more actively embracing services-oriented architectures, which allow for better integration with major BPM tools.”
DAM customers also reported challenges with tools’ inability to manage digital rights at the level of granularity required in modern broadcast and publishing scenarios. Adds Theresa Regli, “Despite some rudimentary DRM capabilities among DAM vendors, many customers need to manage rights at the level of a segment of video or even just part of an image, whereas typically a DAM tool can only specify rights on an entire asset.”
The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008, available at http://www.cmswatch.com/DAM/Report/, provides detailed, comparative evaluations of 18 major digital asset management vendors, including:
- ADAM Software
- ClearStory Systems
- EMC
- Interwoven / MediaBin
- Open Text / Artesia
- North Plains
- IBM / Ancept Media
- WAVE Corporation
- Canto
- Widen
