CMS Watch Digital Asset Management Vendor List

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

• EMC – Documentum Digital Asset Manager 6.1
  – HQ: Hopkinton, MA USA — Mentions: 1
• ClearStory Systems – ActiveMedia 7.4
  – HQ: Westborough, MA USA — Mentions: 2
• North Plains – TeleScope 8.3
  – HQ: Toronto, Canada — Mentions: 2
• 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: 2

Mid-Market Challengers

• WAVE Corporation – MediaBank 3.5
  – HQ: — Mentions: 1
• ADAM Software – ADAM 4.2
  – HQ: Deinze, Belgium — Mentions: 2
• 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: 6
• Oracle – Universal Content Management 10gR3
  – HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA — Mentions: 3
• Day Software – Communiqué DAM
  – HQ: Basel, Switzerland — Mentions: 1

Niche Solutions

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

Emerging Products

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

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.