Widen Media Collective® Demo Videos

Widen Media Collective® Demo Videos
Check out Widen applications in action with these introductory videos.

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Widen Digital Asset Management (DAM)
Manage, find and distribute photos, logos, audio/video, presentations, creative files and marketing materials online.
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Manage Videos
Widen Video Asset Management
Store and retrieve video assets displaying full length previews and on-demand transcoding to a variety of [...]

Not dim at all

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With no software to download or install, Dimdim forever democratizes web- based live meetings. In seconds - right from your browser - you easily host or attend web meetings complete with audio and video conferencing, screen and application sharing. After experiencing the freedom and ease of Dimdim Web Meetings, you’ll wonder why you ever used [...]

Considerations for DAM SaaS

Case Study: Digital Asset Management; the New Opportunity for Service Providers

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When considering a DAM SaaS model, service providers need to determine whether they will make, buy, or partner with a vendor for this offering.  In any case, working with a vendor well-versed in delivering DAM as a service is an important [...]

DAM Soothes catalogue hell!

Catalogues have an extreme short lifecycle and changes must be carried out at the speed of light. They carry a vast number of items that in many cases represent a company’s revenue model. So accuracy failures and data issues are not an option.
The catchment area of a catalogue depends on numerous aspects (e.g. country [...]

Changing your marketing mindset: 12 steps to the interactive future

Changing your marketing mindset: 12 steps to the interactive future
We recently touched on the subjects of the many forms of web marketing tactics that could potentially be utilised as part of your digital marketing arsenal as well as the effectiveness and increased use of these online tools. So while we are on the topic of [...]

Full service providers - DAM, CM, CRM and more

Matthew Gonnering, VP of Sales and Marketing at Widen Enterprises, discusses the disadvantages associated with using a single source provider for multiple specialized services. He discusses how Widen uses our DAM, along with Salesforce CRM, Exact Target email, and Compendium Blogware, all integrated through Web Services.

Pain in the SaaS?

Although the SaaS (software as a service) is a viable model between open source and enterprise systems. Companies need to consider the risks associated with the model for the long term. Tony Byrne at CMS watch has some good advice.
Pain in the SaaS? When your traditional software vendor hosts your application
by Tony Byrne
I recently chatted [...]

SaaS is a no brainer for DAM

Matthew Gonnering, Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Widen Enterprises, discussing the whitepaper written by Mukul Krishna of Frost & Sullivan titled, “Realizing the Value Proposition of Hosted DAM Solutions  http://www.palgrave-journals.com/dam/journal/v3/n1/full/3650059a.html.”

In a perfect storm you need a good DAM

It looks gloomy on the financial horizons, the meme of the perfect storm is spreading faster than a tsunmani across the internet, and taking hold in traditional media. Recession is being banded/branded around now with a capital R, not a hushed lower case
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So what is a marketeer to do?
It is probably true that technology companies [...]

DAM as DaaS via Job Bag

Here is a great example of how Digital Asset Management (DAM) can be used as a Database as a Service (DaaS)

Job-bag is a secure, intelligent resource solution for sharing media and marketing assets across all platforms anywhere in the world, twenty-four hours a day. Job-Bag empowers all members of management, sales, marketing and production without [...]