Razuna approved as qualified DAM software vendor
Even though it may come as surprise to few, Razuna is actually a digital asset management (DAM) software. And now, it’s kind of official.
The 10 Core Characteristics of a DAM system
In May 2014, the DAM foundation finished laying the groundwork for a list of 10 core characteristics that define DAM software. The reason for agreeing on the characteristics has been that many software vendors of varying quality used the term DAM (Digital Asset Management) for their software. The work was based on an article published in April 2014 by Elisabeth Keanley.
Following the decision on the 10 characteristics that defines a DAM system, the DAM Foundation developed an evaluation process, whereby vendors, claiming to be DAM systems, could be evaluated and either approved — or rejected as such. This evaluation process has been conducted over the past few months.
Razuna passed the DAM test
The test was conducted as a blind test, whereby we were sent (only a few minutes prior to the demo) a list of assets, which we needed to import (ingest), tag, convert, index etc. in our system. The idea behind this was that with the limited time for preparation (read: no time for preparation), we couldn’t stage a demo but actually had to have a DAM application that worked.
We are not clear how many were tested, but the end result being that 16 DAM vendors passed the certification.
You can read more about the DAM Foundation and the 10 characteristics for a DAM system on their website.
Deployment Models for Razuna Digital Asset Management
I often get the question about how Razuna can be deployed, so I decided to do a short blog post to outline the options. Some of our enterprise customers, prefer to to have Razuna deployed on their own servers, sometimes even behind firewalls. Other customers prefer to have us handle…
Announcing Razuna 1.9.5
As outlined in my last post, Razuna is going strong, and we see that many customers take to Razuna, which after all is still one of the best open source alternatives to any Enterprise Digital Asset Management. Today, I’m thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Razuna 1.9.5. Razuna 1.9.5, despite…
European Patent Office (EPO) uses Razuna to handle press media
I often rant about the benefits of using the Razuna API to extend the functionality to other systems. Recently the European Patent Office went live with a DAM and CMS implementation that really uses Razuna’s DAM features and the API in an elegant way. Together with our German partner, ]init[,…
What does Open Source Mean for Digital Asset Management?
As you probably know, Razuna is an open source digital asset management software. This basically means that you can download the software and use it for free as long as you adhere to the AGPL license terms. So — the question is: Why do we do that? Why would we give our…
Razuna Digital Asset Management module for Drupal
Sometimes here at Razuna, we’re reminded of why we offer open source digital asset management to people around the world. And this week, was one of those wonderful occasions. We received an email from Mandar Harkare, who told us that he had developed a Dupal module for Razuna. He even…
A long awaited update about Razuna
It’s been a while since I have last written on here. I sincerely apologize for the radio silence. We’ve had to change some things within our company (I’ll write more about this in the future) and re-focus our efforts. That said, Razuna is going stronger than ever. Many customers are…
