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The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 looks at... The definition of an asset

"Note that our definition also allows for physical objects such as video tapes, film canisters, costumes, and museum items to be included as 'assets.' While this may appear a stretch, consider enterprises that need to catalog physical items and provide a digital form or proxy to represent them, such as a museum cataloging its collection of Renaissance paintings. Now you have a digital image or icon representing the physical thing, so the definition of a digital asset actually includes both digital and physical things."

More about The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008

 

Below we list 18 DAM solutions. These are not the "best" DAM tools, simply -- in our judgment -- the most significant today.

You can find a longer discussion of these categories -- along with comparative evaluations of these tools -- in The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008.

Enterprise DAM

• ClearStory Systems - ActiveMedia 7.4
  - HQ: Westborough, MA USA -- Mentions: 2
• North Plains - TeleScope 8.3
  - HQ: Toronto, Canada -- Mentions: 3
• IBM - FileNet P8 4.0.1 / Ancept Media Server 3.8
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 2
• Interwoven - MediaBin
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 2
• Open Text - Artesia
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 5
• EMC - Documentum Digital Asset Manager 6.1
  - HQ: Hopkinton, MA USA -- Mentions: 1

Mid-Market Challengers

• WAVE Corporation - MediaBank 3.5
  - HQ: -- Mentions: 1
• ADAM Software - ADAM 4.2
  - HQ: Deinze, Belgium -- Mentions: 4
• Canto - Cumulus 7.5.3
  - HQ: Berlin, Germany and San Francisco, CA USA -- Mentions: 1
• Widen - Media Collective 5.0
  - HQ: Madison, WI, US -- Mentions: 2

Lightweight DAM

• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 7
• Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 4
• Day Software - Communiqué DAM
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland -- Mentions: 1

Niche Solutions

• MediaBeacon - R3volution
  - HQ: Minneapolis, MN, US -- Mentions: 1
• Chuckwalla - Chuckwalla 5.8
  - HQ: Santa Clara, CA, US -- Mentions: 1
• Xinet - WebNative Suite
  - HQ: Berkeley, CA, US

Emerging Products

• NStein - DAM
  - HQ: Montreal, Canada -- Mentions: 2
• Apple - Final Cut Server
  - HQ: Cupertino, CA ,USA -- Mentions: 1

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.