Digital Asset Management

SaaS vs Hosted, Part 1: The Differences are in the Design « DAM-it!.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), also known as Cloud Computing, has been a buzzword around technology circles for a few years now. We’ve seen its ease and capability in many different forms, from the popular Salesforce.com CRM application to our own WebDAM solution. However, some confusion [...]

Morphing Through Time: Cloud & SaaS Applications – Who Owns the Integration?.
I was reading Laura Ramos’ blog on marketing to buyers “in the cloud” and, while this is a great post from many perspectives, there are quite a few details that are overlooked in the paradigm shift of having marketing (and not only marketing) purchase applications [...]

According to a recent Forrester report, about one-third of all enterprises have already subscribed to software-as-a-service applications, or plan to do so within the next year.
The report surveyed nearly 2,200 IT executives and technology decision-makers from a variety of midsized and small businesses in North America and Europe.
The difficult economic climate has resulted in many [...]

news issues: Japan Software-as-a-Service Market Overview 2010.
The SaaS market in Japan has reached a major milestone, surpassing US$1 billion in 2009 as adoption of on-demand solutions spreads across all major industries, according to IT industry analysts at Springboard Research. The Springboard Research report, “Japan Software-as-a-Service Market Overview 2010″, revealed that at US$1 billion, Japan’s SaaS [...]

Don’t Get Conned – destinationCRM.com.

Criminal mastermind Frank Abagnale, Jr., successfully conned millions of dollars out of the pockets of innocent people by posing in various disguises including a Pan American pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a professor. He was so skillful that in a period of five years he stole more than [...]

fluxiom platform has been emulated by countless developers who set out to create a desktop-like experience on the web. fluxiom was one of the first applications to bring AJAX, Prototype and advanced visual JavaScript to the enterprise desktop. It also came with a standards-compliant front-end, composed of HTML and CSS to maximise portability and compatibility [...]

Widen Media Collective – Web based DAM software designed for creative and marketing workflows without dedicated internal IT resources.
Web based DAM software is the new standard for organizations on a tight budget needing to increase marketing efficiency and effectiveness. Hard drives, network folders and internally developed solutions are not an option for companies that must [...]

Rackspace, the erstwhile managed hosting provider who is pushing hard to be an open alternative to Amazon, Microsoft, etc., took a step towards putting some order in their ecosystem with the release of a new portal called Cloud Tools. Rackspace jumped into the Cloud game with an acquisition of a tool for their future ecosystem. They [...]

Digital Asset Management as Software as a Service 2.0 maps the asset lifecycle to productivity.
Digital Asset Management (DAM) has evolved tremendously and has spawned the emerging model of DAM as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). DAM as SaaS has not only capitalized on the value proposition of the overall DAM market but also brought to the table some [...]

Digital Asset Management Creates Efficiencies and Boosts Marketing Effectiveness

Widen Enterprises, a Madison, Wisconsin-based pre-media and software services provider, today announced it was named a 2009 winner in the THINKstrategies Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program. The BoSS Awards promotes measurable business benefits delivered by Software-as-a Service (SaaS) solutions providers.