Whitepaper

InfoTrends has just released a whitepaper detailing a "phased" DAM implementation. The whitepaper examines the advantages of basing the system on your most urgent requirements, and then growing the system to meet you future needs. Also, using references from WAVE, they provide a sample strategy for phased implementation provided.

Download A Phased DAM Approach Whitepaper

Complimentary Research

Marketing Digital Asset Management

Capturing, Storing, and Retrieving Digital Media to Deliver Strategic Value

The Aberdeen Group has just released a report titled Marketing Digital Asset Management: Capturing, Storing, and Retrieving Digital Media to Deliver Strategic Value. The report discusses the use of Marketing DAM systems among 185 Best-in-Class companies.

Description : A December 2007 survey of 185 companies revealed how Best-in-Class companies maximize the strategic value of digital assets through technology and organization capabilities. For the purpose of this research, Digital Asset Management (DAM) is viewed as a subset of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The research focuses on technologies that allow marketing departments to capture, store, retrieve, and manage digital content. This benchmark enables companies to see how Best-in-Class tactics help marketing departments maximize investments and leverage technology to improve brand effectiveness, brand consistency, and return on marketing investments, ultimately delivering strategic value from marketing asset management technologies.

Thanks to WAVE's sponsorship, you can download the report for FREE through the Aberdeen Group.

Upcoming Events

WAVE will be a featured vendor at the 2008 Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM). The 2008 ACCM will be held in Orlando, Florida - just minutes from WAVE headquarters.

WAVE Corporation is showcasing its services and products at the New York Henry Stewart Event in New York.

WAVE was also recently featured in the February 2008 Henry Stewart Newsletter. You can read more about it here.

B.media 5.5 Release

B.media version 5.5 was released the night of Friday December 7th. Along with support for Quark 7 and InDesign CS3, B.media 5.5 also include many new robust features.

Publishing Targets : Utilize powerful image transformations to generate web-ready images from hi-res print files while exporting relevant metadata as XML. These publishing targets enable digital rights management, single source of data entry, robust reporting features, and integrations with web and other external systems.

TableBuilder : The cumbersome formatting and updating tasks associated with maintaining tables are virtually eliminated with WAVE's TableBuilder. Users define columns and rules in a simple interface and then allow the software to create and populate the table accordingly. Tables are format-neutral allowing them to be distributed to both electronic and print publications.

SynchroBlock : Have a lot of data that you need to get onto pages quickly? Want to see an accurate preview of an offer without waiting for the design process? SynchroBlock puts design capabilities at the user's fingertips by re-using content and assigning templates to automatically apply layout and dynamically build pages and complete publications.

Read the Official B.media Press Release.

Go to the B.media product page or contact sales for more info about B.media 5.5

Other WAVE News

SaaS Solutions : Remotely hosted solutions are gaining popularity because of their attractive pricing structure, low associated risk, and reduced administrative efforts. Given our company's expertise, a Software as a Service model was a natural extension to WAVE’s available product suite and offers an enticing package.

You can read more about SaaS HERE >>

WAVE News Blog : Our interactive forum to discuss the latest news, best practices, and other insights concerning Asset and Content Management and publishing in general.

You can find our WAVE News Blog HERE >>

Coming Soon: MediaBank 3.5

MediaBank 3.5 will bring many exciting new features to make your digital asset management experience even BETTER!

Multi-Media Streaming and Support : MediaBank will now support multi-media file types (AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, etc...) and generate multi-page thumbnails and normalized flash preview of the assets. Streaming will be available via all 3 MediaBank client interfaces - Native Client, Java Web and MB Web.

Unlimited Metadata Fields : MediaBank will now support unlimited (extended) metadata or attribute data for all Job Jackets and Element Databases, and multiple values per extended metadata field (depth). This includes setting up locales for multiple languages, etc. MediaBank 3.5 will now support full Unicode extended field metadata. This includes creating, updating, and searching. Users will also have the ability to assign filters on extended fields. Filters can be combined to achieve almost any combination of desired rules to be enforced on metadata values.

MB Web : MediaBank Perl/cgi Web interface will have a new updated, progressive Web 2.x look and feel. Its core structure is completely redesigned to allow easy User Interface editing and configuration by abstracting away the User Interface from the core code. Thus, upgrading and bug fixes will be easier to implement along with configuration and customizations.

Image Engine Distribution : MediaBank's image generation load can now be seamlessly distributed to other defined servers resources when MediaBank image plugins are used. This would include the ability to offload image generation resources for PDF, Postscript, multi-media (mpeg), Photoshop and other plugin based file types supported by the MediaBank plugins.

You can read the entire list of new features in MediaBank 3.5 on our website.