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The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 looks at... WAVE's ability to scale

"Despite supporting larger implementations in recent years, some customers still express scalability concerns. One client who has used the system for three years states that while the system can scale to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of assets, you have to be careful about not putting too many in a single collection. This customer told us that when he puts more than 5,000 assets in a single collection, it "starts to wig out." (The company disagrees, saying that it has customers who store over 80,000 assets in one element-database, with no adverse effects.) You'll want to test accordingly."

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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

• Open Text - Artesia
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 5
• 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: 3
• IBM - FileNet P8 4.0.1 / Ancept Media Server 3.8
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 3
• Interwoven - MediaBin
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 2

Mid-Market Challengers

• Widen - Media Collective 5.0
  - HQ: Madison, WI, US -- Mentions: 2
• 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

Lightweight DAM

• Day Software - Communiqué DAM
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland -- Mentions: 1
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 7
• Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 5

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: 2
• Apple - Final Cut Server
  - HQ: Cupertino, CA ,USA -- Mentions: 1

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.