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The Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009 looks at... Canto's stretch towards enterprise status

"Canto has made progress toward enterprise-class status, but it has failed (so far) to gain a reputation as an enterprise-grade platform, largely due to its inability to integrate well with Oracle and other databases, and a failure to take advantage of the scalability and other benefits of a full J2EE architecture. Nevertheless, as a workgroup DAM offering, Cumulus can be said to combine substantial functionality in areas like metadata support, cataloging, and asset reuse, at a price point that many customers have found attractive. "

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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.

Enterprise DAM from ECM Suite Vendors

• EMC - Documentum Digital Asset Manager
  - HQ: Hopkinton, MA USA -- Mentions: 7
• IBM - FileNet / Ancept Media Server
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 8
• Autonomy - Virage MediaBin
  - HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA & Cambridge, UK -- Mentions: 7
• Open Text - Artesia
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 12

Enterprise DAM from Pure Players

• MediaBeacon - R3volution
  - HQ: Minneapolis, MN, US -- Mentions: 7
• North Plains - TeleScope
  - HQ: Toronto, Canada -- Mentions: 7
• The FeedRoom - ActiveMedia
  - HQ: -- Mentions: 7

Mid-Market Challengers

• WAVE Corporation - MediaBank
  - HQ: -- Mentions: 5
• ADAM Software - ADAM
  - HQ: Deinze, Belgium -- Mentions: 9
• Canto - Cumulus
  - HQ: Berlin, Germany and San Francisco, CA USA -- Mentions: 5
• Widen - Media Collective
  - HQ: Madison, WI, US -- Mentions: 8

Lightweight DAM

• Vyre - Unify (European Edition)
  - HQ: London, UK -- Mentions: 1
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 15
• Nstein - Digital Asset Manager
  - HQ: Montreal, Canada -- Mentions: 6
• Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 13
• Day Software - Communiqué DAM
  - HQ: Basel, Switzerland -- Mentions: 5
• Extensis - Portfolio Server
  - HQ: Portland, Oregon, USA -- Mentions: 1

Niche Solutions

• Xinet - WebNative Suite
  - HQ: Berkeley, CA, US -- Mentions: 1
• Chuckwalla - Chuckwalla
  - HQ: Santa Clara, CA, US -- Mentions: 6
• Apple - Final Cut Server
  - HQ: Cupertino, CA ,USA -- Mentions: 5

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.