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Guido Van der Schueren becomes director and key shareholder, ARKAFUND extends investment.
Ghent, January 20, 2010 – ADAM Software closes 2009 with double-digit growth. In 2009, ADAM Software built a strong management team and secured a number of highly visible customer contracts. To continue this accelerated growth over the next three years and strengthen the enterprise for its customers, ADAM is raising its capital by securing a private placement. PARANA, the investment company of Guido Van der Schueren, will make up a major part of this placement, and ARKAFUND will invest in ADAM for a second time to enhance its shareholder's position.
ADAM Software is growing fast in the digital asset management (DAM) space at the mid and top end of the market. As DAM technology grows in importance globally, ADAM Software is well-positioned to develop into an international market leader. The capital raised by this investment round will solidify the working capital of the company, and allow for faster scaling of ADAM Software’s operations worldwide, including the opening of US offices.
The nomination of Guido Van der Schueren to the board of directors broadens ADAM Software’s strategic market knowledge to a global level. Guido’s thorough understanding of market needs in the graphic arts industry will be a substantial asset to ADAM Software as their market share grows and they expand in the US and elsewhere.
Guido also brings global experience with strategic and worldwide industry contacts to the board. Although from a different market sector, Guido has extended experience in the industry - over 34 years - and built Artwork Systems into a global leader in graphic arts software with a turnover of over 50 million USD (43 million Euro). ADAM will benefit greatly from the strategic industry contacts Guido brings, and future company development will be driven accordingly.
With sustainable, global growth ADAM Software’s number one goal for 2010, ADAM Software is also thrilled to receive a strong vote of confidence from an existing investor, ARKAFUND.
Speaking on behalf of ARKAFUND, Thierry Geerts, Business Development Director, states: “ADAM Software is one of our key internationally focused investments. The arrival of Guido Van der Schueren to ADAM’s board will bring a high level of experience in global software sales that will help boost ADAM’s international presence. We are confident that ADAM’s rapid growth in the market is sustainable and for this reason we were eager to participate in this second round of investment.”
On accepting his nomination to the board of directors, Guido stated: “I have been following DAM in general, and ADAM Software more specifically in recent years. ADAM’s technology and development platform is world class and opens new opportunities for everyone who is in marketing technologies, graphical solutions and media processes. Their business model creates the opportunity for a lot of ADAM Business Partners to generate added value in their specific markets.”
Luc De Vos, president of the board confirms: “Having Guido on board at ADAM Software strengthens our expertise in all three major segments of our market: brandowners, manufacturing and retail, and graphical production. His understanding of customers’ needs on strategic issues and his international experience will bring to the board the knowledge we require to take strategic decisions.”
Pieter Casneuf, General Manager, sees opportunities to develop ADAM Software’s market in the US more rapidly with Guido’s expertise. “We have been growing fast in Europe and demonstrated our willingness to tackle the US market in 2009. With customers such as Rapp Collins (Omnicom Group), Microsoft (Redmond) and Stanley, our footprint in the US market has jump started. It is our belief that the US market will become as important for us as Europe is today. Guido’s global sales and software experience in the US will obviously be a great asset.”
About ADAM
ADAM is a global provider of media workflow and marketing supply chain software. We offer enterprises the ability to manage, structure and deliver media between people, processes and systems. Working with our partners enables us to implement our software globally while providing workflow solutions to all types of enterprises. What drives us is a passion to organize media intelligently, making it easier and more accessible to everyone.
ADAM - Media Intelligent
Contact – Pieter Casneuf: pieter@adamsoftware.net - tel : +32 9 381 63 36
ADAM digital asset management system drives Elopak PakTrack solution
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Faster and more efficient time-to-market for Elopak packaging with ADAM Software
Elopak, listed in the top three packaging companies worldwide, supports clients who are producing tens of different types of packages in at least as many countries. To manage this smoothly image and media management are an absolute necessity. ADAM offers a flexible digital asset management system to manage all possible content. ADAM’s solution can be easily adapted to the customer’s needs and can be seamlessly integrated into existing IT infrastructure.
Faster time-to-market for Elopak packaging
For Elopak the implementation of ADAM Software represents the last link in a graphical automation process that started in 2000 with the set up of the company’s in-house prepress department. This development was stimulated by a KPMG research report, indicating that the time-to-market for Elopak packages was too long because too much time was lost in prepress. Niels Goossen, prepress development manager at the packaging giant from Terneuzen, the Netherlands, who was involved in this process from the outset, sees this as the basis of the powerful prepress and media management system distinguishing Elopak from its competitors today.
In 2000, digital asset management was still in its infancy and packaging printers entrusted their prepress work to specialist companies, hosting image archives comprising hundreds of directories with films. Elopak therefore decided to manage prepress in-house but also to work towards a fully online system which would offer Elopak sales offices and their customers an online insight into every phase of an order. As a result the new PakTrack system was created.
PakTrack keeps track of the history of an order and regulates the creation and approval of files. The system will be entirely based on ADAM, an innovative digital asset management system that connects the various prepress and image production systems to each other. Hereby it is also important to exchange data with the company’s internally developed ERP and Management Information System.
“The concept, possibilities and vision of ADAM perfectly fit Elopak’s strategy. We are striving for technological innovation and development in packaging and workflow processes in order to serve our customers as effectively as possible.” says Niels Goossen.
Willie Caldow (left) and Niels Goossen of Elopak, driving forces behind PakTrack
Flexibility and scalability
ADAM software will direct all processes between development and production. This is why ADAM is linked to the Elopak design and prepress systems which not only operate in Adobe PDF but also in ARTpro and other formats. Elopak uses this flexibility and scalability to allow programmers to add functionality to ADAM Software or to build a completely new user interface which makes it even easier for customers to work with PakTrack.
According to Goossen this is a feature he has not found with any other product and which saves a lot of money and time for Elopak. The company now determines priorities and budgets for these applications and does not have to wait until a software provider translates its wishes into a standard product. The ADAM characteristics are useful for the next phase of the development of PakTrack. As such, now that customers have become used to PakTrack’s options, they are coming with a list of requests for characteristics suited to their own needs. This means they no longer have to invest in hardware and software themselves and Elopak becomes their dedicated partner.
ADAM Software reduces make-overs to 30%
Goossens explains the advantages of ADAM media management for Elopak and its customers: “the time-to-market for a packaging item is normally weeks instead of months, all communication from the design to the production of packaging items goes online via a standard web browser without special software and customers see the status of all of their assignments in real time. The gain in time we want to achieve with ADAM Software will not be limited to the 70% saving in lead time. A substantial gain is also reached by reducing make-overs, an expensive and time consuming feature in packaging.”
Goossen concludes: “after introducing ADAM Software we can reduce make-overs to 30%. One important step is the further development of the remote proofing controlled by ADAM Software which we now offer in all of our sales offices worldwide. This allows customers not only to go online but also to approve their packaging order based on a ‘tangible’ proof. We are this way placing automation at the service of our customers and they can reap the benefits of our investments.”
About Elopak
Elopak is one of the world’s leading suppliers of packaging systems for liquid food products and develops, manufactures and sells complete systems for packaging of non-carbonated liquid food products. In 2008, the company, employing 2,500 staff excluding joint ventures, had a turnover of NOK 5878 million (=ca. € 715 Mio.). Elopak is well known as supplier of gable top cartons through its Pure-Pak® system. In 2008, Elopak sold 12 billion cartons to customers in the dairy, juice and liquid food markets. As a full systems supplier with organizations and associates in more than 40 countries and customers in over 100, the Elopak Group seeks to bring its international expertise and product technology to new markets and applications.
Our software has an intelligent open architecture that allows customization and rapid application development using our ADAM SDK.
We understand our clients' needs to share, collaborate and automate mundane tasks while controlling quality.
We are passionate in providing our clients with intuitive and easy to use software, helping them organize media and distribute assets quick and secure.
We have the knowledge and proven experience of how media flows between people, the workflow and the common goal to publish and distribute quality content.
Global brands relying on ADAM software are Anheuser-Busch InBev, Britvic, Microsoft, LEGO, McCann Erickson, Sanoma Magazines, etc…
www.adamsoftware.net – Contact – Pieter Canseuf: pieter@adamsoftware.net - tel : +32 9 381 63 36
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Targeted production of graphical files driven by Adobe InDesign Server & ADAM V4.3
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DEINZE, December 18th, 2008 – ADAM Software (www.adamsoftware.net) launches ADAM DocMaker V.2.0, the ADAM web-to-print application that helps companies to reduce document costs and to manage their document localization workflows more efficiently. Register for the free webinars or have the ADAM DocMaker presented in a short movie at www.adamsoftware.net/docmaker
“ADAM DocMaker-users can easily switch from document mass production to highly targeted, customized marketing collateral. This boosts print marketing effectiveness significantly while ensuring brand consistency”, explains Pieter Casneuf from ADAM Software. “With our actual customer base, we see a need for highly controlled workflows for the localization of marketing materials. When a master document is produced in a creative setup, brand owners need several versions of the same master: by language, by region, by channel, ... DocMaker is the best way to have an easy setup of a local version.”
Rolling out a master document to localized or targeted versions can be a very cumbersome process: the complexity of nearly identical versions, with all different validations and approval cycles, typically generate a lot of manual work and heavy workload on a central level. With a controlled workflow, starting from DAM as the unique version of truth, and with easy to use browser interfaces on top of complex InDesign documents, ADAM DocMaker allows you to localize version without any specific knowledge of the graphical process, nor any expertise on InDesign.
Using DocMaker Studio, running on ADAM Engine and combined with Workflow Studio (www.adamsoftware.net/workflow) allows you to fully master the process, reduce the costs to a strict minimum and eliminate unnecessary validation cycles in the approval processes. Users will be able to only changes that information, needed to localize and allowed to be changed in a local version.
With ADAM DocMaker V2.0, the Master Documents and Master Templates are centrally controlled by the marketing and communication management. Localized interactions with the master document are managed through the ADAM security system, embedded in ADAM Engine 4.3. Management can follow up on all the parameters of executions by simple online dashboard control, using ADAM Workflow milestone blocks.
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One of the world’s leading developers of gaming software, Eidos Interactive Ltd., has selected ADAM to organize their worldwide art development asset library facilitating exchange of the most wide variety of assets including 2D, 3D, Audio, Video etc... Eidos selected ADAM Software out of other DAM-vendors for “ADAM’s powerful but simple and intuitive search engine, and its extensive support for metadata, including taxonomy, extracted metadata, and custom metadata…"
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Deinze, March 10th, 2009 – ADAM Software (www.adamsoftware.net) released ADAM 4.4 – the latest version of its enterprise Digital Asset Management platform. Next to known strengths such as infinite taxonomy, robust media workflows, all format support, flexibility, scalability, ADAM offers even faster search options, improved logging, rich metadata, data source controls and the introduction of automatically assigned standardized classification structures.
Both customers and system integrators benefit from:
Introduction of Classification Mappings automatically catalog records in standardized classification structures, such as UNSPSC or eCl@ss, based on your internal classification structure. Using a single global classification system offers company-wide visibility of spend analysis, cost-effective procurement optimization and full exploitation of electronic commerce capabilities. ADAM Classification Mappings offers a semantic Web environment by means of formalizations into ontologies.
Introduction of HTML Fields for storing rich metadata, supporting formatted text as well as all common HTML tags. Users can freely create and edit rich content without requiring any knowledge of HTML. This rich content formatting creates a consistent look and feel for feeding e-commerce websites or online catalogues.
Up to 300% performance improvements in complex searching, loading images and retrieving record and classification information
The Maintenance Job Log framework has been redesigned and its user interface greatly improved for easier and more efficient troubleshooting. Administrators will benefit from a centralized overview of the maintenance and ordering log and the easy method to analyze and filter the log.
Introducing ADAM Data Source Controls for ASP.NET allowing developers to use standard ASP.NET or even third party web controls to build custom websites on ADAM. This greatly minimizes the need for code behind when developing custom websites and studios that interact with the ADAM Engine for retrieving, displaying, updating and creating data.
The benefits of this new approach are
“The introduction of the ADAM Data Source controls for an established platform as Microsoft ASP.NET secures our client’s investment and offers system integrators an error free rapid development environment. Next to drastically reducing the amount of code writing it gives clients the ability to choose for intuitive interfaces fed by rich media on top of ADAM.” concludes Pieter Casneuf, partner of ADAM Software.
Microsoft published a case about the use of Microsoft Team Foundation Server at Adam Software. We've been using this product for several years now, but a little over a year ago Pieter Gheysens from Compuware (now from Sparkles) helped us to improve the way in which we use Team System. Because of this, we have been able to significantly improve the reliability of our build processes.
Pieter Gheysens is currently the only MVP Team System in Belgium. He has a blog on http://intovsts.net which specifically covers Team System.
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Since mid 2008, the developers at ADAM Software have been working with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008. Efficiency has greatly improved as a consequence, allowing them to react more swiftly to acute problems and produce new product versions faster. They no longer have to devote much time to manual, routine tasks and can therefore devote their time to the real development work. Customers also enjoy a better product and a better service, while ADAM Software can fulfil the requirements of strict SLAs – an important benefit with large brand customers such as Lego, Warner Bros and Philips.
ADAM Software is an important worldwide supplier of Digital Asset Management (DAM) software. The latter guides the management, conversion and distribution of cross-media files and processes. Customers can use it to manage their image databases, generate product catalogues or process full cycles of marketing material. Interaction with customers and the potential customization of the software is carried out via a network of local partners. ADAM Software itself devotes itself entirely to improving the technology.
Switching between product versions
“We often have to switch from one product version to another because we also continue to provide support for our customers on older versions of the software. In the past, that switching used to be extremely cumbersome,” tells Michael Vanhoutte, Senior Software Architect at ADAM Software. “It was therefore essential to be able to work more efficiently on the different versions.”
In addition, ADAM Software also wanted both its development teams – one for the framework and one for the user applications – to work with the same development environment and tools. That was not the case in the past, which had a negative impact on collaboration and maintenance. The organization therefore decided to install new software to better support the developers in their work: Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. “This software was our first choice from the very beginning. The only thing lacking was the expertise and time to achieve an optimal integration of the technology amongst our teams,” explains Michael Vanhoutte. “After a thorough screening of the market, we ended up at Compuware. They already had experience with similar projects and are also a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, which was an added bonus for us.”
Automatic generation of installation packages
In the first phase, ADAM Software presented its requirements to Compuware. “We then advised them with regard to the product configuration and the way in which they could best use the software,” says the .NET Team Lead at Compuware Belgium. “By mid 2008 we had installed a central development environment for both development teams. The project was completed in a couple of weeks. The development environment is now optimized for advanced version management and makes it easy to work on multiple product versions simultaneously. Moreover, the Team Foundation Server automatically generates installation packages based on the entered source code.”
These installation packages serve firstly to extensively test the ADAM software and ultimately form the basis for the package that is supplied to the customer. “In the past, there was a lot of manual work involved in these processes,” says Michael Vanhoutte. “It used to take us a whole day to produce an installation package. Now it just takes one hour. We have even automated a number of tests which also saves a considerable amount of time.”
Better customer support and shorter development cycles
Switching between product versions is now also a lot faster than before. “We used to lose a lot of time in setting up specific, older environments. That is now done in a matter of seconds,” says Michael Vanhoutte. “As a result, we are in a better position to meet our SLAs for product support. That is extremely important given that we work for large, demanding customers. Also for our partners – who are often in the firing line when problems arise, our more efficient working methods imply a massive improvement.”
Now that the developers at ADAM Software spend less time on manual processes, they can devote more of their energies to development work. The support provided by Visual Studio Team System therefore has a marked impact on the quality of the end result. At the same time, everything is a lot faster. “In the past, it took us two to five days to get from the source code to an installation-ready package. Now all we need is a day,” explains Michael Vanhoutte. “On top of that, the Team Foundation Server’s standard reports enable us to closely monitor where we are in the development process.”
Simpler, cheaper maintenance
Seeing as both development teams no longer work in separate development environments, maintenance has become simpler and cheaper. Moreover, there is now an exchange of knowledge possible between the teams regarding use of the software. “The developers are happy because they have less repetitive work. We can therefore do more with the same number of developers.”
ADAM Software can now easily maintain the development environment itself, without the intervention of Compuware, who also provided a user manual. “We have been put on the right track, so we now know very well how to work with Visual Studio Team System. And we have achieved our goal: we work faster and with greater professionalism and are able to serve our customers better. As a small player in a growing sector, it is essential that we be alert and work efficiently in order to be successful,” concludes Michael Vanhoutte.
More information
For more information about the above-mentioned Microsoft products and services, call +32 (0)2 704 30 00 or visit www.microsoft.be/cases. You will also find a list of companies who use similar applications.
For more information about Compuware, call +32 (0)2 715 99 00 or visit www.compuware.be.
For more information about ADAM Software, visit www.ADAMsoftware.net
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Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server
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Desktop Applications
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Microsoft Technologies
Microsoft Security
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A big thank you to all the attendees of the ADAM Partner Event, your enthusiasm drives us to better solutions and relations.
Special thank to the following people for contributing to this event
If you want to see this event from an attendee point of view: Gary George of Tunicca wrote on 3D & Digital Asset Management at the Tunicca blog
ADAM software products successfully passed the Intel’s SpikeSource certification, a proven platform for assembling, testing, packaging, and updating software solutions. This certification grants ADAM Software higher quality and more secure software products. ADAM Software delivers products that are enabled for Intel technologies and free of all known significant security vulnerabilities while every update is also re-certified for optimal interoperability and security issues. The fact that ADAM software meets these pre-defined standards for quality, security, and performance, gives customers a greater peace of mind in choosing to deploy our solutions.
ADAM Software ( www.adamsoftware.net ) launches the ADAM SharePoint connector which extends your familiar Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) environment with ADAM functionality. Users experience ADAM’s powerful digital asset management capabilities, together with the workflow and collaboration support provided by SharePoint, through the familiar user interface of the Microsoft Office System.
The ADAM SharePoint connector (www.adamsoftware.net/sharepoint ) exposes the ADAM retrieval functionality through SharePoint Web parts (SharePoint user interface elements), enabling users to retrieve assets from within ADAM through a guided search using the ADAM classification tree. This includes free text search on all the metadata available including IPTC, XMP, etc. The search works on ALL files, including audio, video, office documents. SharePoint provides the user interface through which this functionality is accessed, and complements ADAM’s powerful digital asset management capabilities with comprehensive workflow and collaboration support. The extended security from ADAM manages access control to assets, records & metadata.
With ADAM SharePoint connector you can
"We understand publishers and marketing departments require both powerful digital asset management (DAM) capabilities and collaboration support. ADAM demonstrates how these can be brought together by making DAM capabilities accessible through the familiar SharePoint user interface, so users can benefit from SharePoint's tight integration with the Microsoft Office environment", says Rainer Kellerhals, global media & entertainment solutions lead, Microsoft Communications Sector.
“With ADAM being a GOLD CERTIFIED partner of Microsoft, it is obvious for us to constantly keep up to date with the latest Microsoft technologies”, says Pieter Casneuf, executive partner, ADAM Software.
“The first .NET DAM engine, the first Windows Server 2008 compatible DAM platform, the first DAM system to run SQL 2008 and a seamless integration into Microsoft Office Suite 2007. This portfolio of ADAM - Microsoft compliant technologies is yet enhanced with the merge of ADAM into SharePoint. The strength of the 'share & collaborate' philosophy with the enterprise character of ADAM offers our customers the best of both worlds.", Pieter Casneuf concludes.
Please check the video on our website: www.adamsoftware.net/sharepointvideo demonstrating how easy it is to set up ADAM with SharePoint.
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Los Angeles – ADAM Software ( www.adamsoftware.net) is pleased to announce its partnership with BrandActive (www.brandactive.com ), a global leader in brand implementation planning and management. BrandActive has nearly a decade of experience helping global clients identify, define, and implement cost-effective and time-efficient strategies to achieving optimal, professional physical brand expression at all touchpoints.
The introduction of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Digital Asset Management (DAM) offering, with ADAM as the platform, is a natural fit for BrandActive’s clients as it will not only enhance the level of service we provide in managing physical brand transitions, but also enable us to deliver a completely customizable, highly valuable tool for on-going brand management without the complexities, limitations, and costs associated with an on-site installation,” explains Philip Guiliano, VP Client Services at BrandActive in Los Angeles, CA.
Pieter Casneuf, Executive Partner ADAM Software says: “This partnership with BrandActive, enables us to offer our North American customers the choice between on-premises services and Software-as-a-Service. The growing momentum in the market for SaaS-models, together with the expertise of BrandActive, leads us to expect major success with this partnership.”
In collaboration with ADAM and their partner network, BrandActive intends to provide two major offerings:
ADAM Software unveiled ADAM 4.3 – the latest version of their enterprise Digital Asset Management platform. With the release of 4.3 ADAM delivers all the ADAM known strengths such as infinite taxonomy, robust media workflows, all format support, flexibility, scalability, …, with even better search options, broad video support with large preview capabilities and a unique rules-concept to automatically trigger workflows.
With ADAM 4.3 customers will continue to experience the intuitive interface and Workflow capabilities found in earlier versions of ADAM, but this latest release also includes many new features that expand the product's functionality like:
“With 4.3 ADAM going all the way to meet and exceed enterprise users’ expectations by fully embracing workflow management and Digital Asset Management (DAM). By tearing down data silos we initiated this concept by offering DAM with status driven workflows. Followed by DAM with Visio-driven workflow based on a full BPM (business process management)-solution in 2007, we now complete the offering in ADAM 4.3 with a rules engine that allows enterprise users to sport their workflow with the most powerful rules and kick-off triggers. In a nutshell: in ADAM 4.3 DAM and workflow become one,” concludes Pieter Casneuf, partner of ADAM Software.
ADAM 4.3 is available for ADAM partners in the downloadcenter from now.
ADAM software is very proud to announce that ADAM is the world’s first Digital Asset Management-system that has been certified for Windows Server 2008! ADAM 4.2, which is being launched on February 15, 2008, “has been tested by VeriTest ® and meets the criteria for the Certified for Windows Server 2008 program and Vista”, Microsoft announced.
With this certification ADAM Software stays on track to build innovative enterprise digital asset management-solutions.
ADAM was the first DAM-solution
ADAM 4.2 is available for ADAM partners in the download center.
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ADAM Software becomes a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the premium accreditation awarded by Microsoft to its worldwide partners.
ADAM software being labeled "Microsoft GOLD" is a token of quality awarded by Microsoft after strong evaluative testing. It strongly indicates the robustness of the solutions provided by ADAM Software, recognizes the ADAM expertise and rewards ADAM Software for his impact in the technology marketplace as an Independent Software Vendor.
The real value of the Gold Label comes from within. Microsoft Gold partnership is the confirmation that ADAM Software-customers can rely on a state of the art DAM system. Customers like Agfa, Philips Medical, InBev, EIDOS, Corporate Express, Warner Bross, Stanley Works, … are already on board. Microsoft also implemented the Digital Asset Management Software from ADAM to manage its own Microsoft global Home-Entertainment-marketingdownloadcenter. (https://www.microsoftprosource.com)
ADAM offers full integration with Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Users have Direct access to the media stored in ADAM from within Microsoft Office applications. (http://www.adam.be/officeconnector and watch the movie)
ADAM Software has been a loyal Microsoft partner for years. ADAM Software acted as a launch customer for SQL2005 & Visual-Studio2005 (http://www.microsoft.com)
And we are fully dedicated to the launch of 2008-Microsoft-products as well and will make all products 2008 compatible as of end Q1-Y2008. (SQL2008, Visual Studio2008 and WindowsServer 2008)
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ADAM Software is proud to announce full breadth XPS-functionality. Thanks to its open architecture, ADAM has again proven its capability to adopt swiftly to support a standard to come, the XPS, what stands for XML Paper Specification.
ADAM’s provider model allows third party developers to co-engineer on emerging opportunities. As for XPS , ADAM software joined forces with the Belgian company NiXPS (www.nixps.com) to build an XPS-engine for ADAM. The 'NiXPS Library v2.0' widens the scope in which ADAM can handle data. Thumbnails of XPS files are shown in ADAM, the previewing of XPS files starts here. Metadata can be read by ADAM when importing. ADAM even handles a smooth conversion of XPS files to Adobe PDF.
About NiXPS
NiXPS pioneers the XPS revolution. With a strong background in the publishing industry and extensive experience with document formats, the company is ideally positioned to offer the technology needed to make XPS usable in professional document management environments. Our NiXPS Library is an independent, cross platform, highly efficient software library to read/modify/write XPS files. One of the first third-party libraries for the XPS format in the world. Our NiXPS Edit and NiXPS View applications are built on this foundation and offer customers unparalleled capabilities to inspect, edit and optimize their XPS files.
The new Adobe Version Cue® CS3 file management suite integrates completely with the ADAM digital asset management system.
Adobe® Version Cue® CS3 is the server-based workgroup collaboration system that's part of Adobe Creative Suite® 3. With Version Cue CS3, you can check files in and out within shared projects, add comments and track file versions, perform XMP metadata searches, and host shared PDF reviews. In a world premiere Adobe Systems and ADAM Software developed a complete integration between Version Cue® CS3 and the ADAM Studios. From the Adobe comfort zone the user has complete access to all the assets stored in ADAM: Version Cue® uses all the ADAM metadata, its thumbnails, high quality previews, guided searches and ADAM Workflows. The seamlessly integration between the ADAM repository and Adobe products reduces costs and simplifies workflows of advertising agencies, editors, printers and publishers.
Pieter Casneuf of ADAM Software says: "For design and production people, it's a long awaited moment to have all the Creative Suite functionality together with world class DAM functionality. The integration of ADAM within the CS3 interface allows business and administration users to work on the same asset base as the design and production team. ADAM manages the assets, versions and access rights so that different interfaces and access points work with one central engine."
The Version Cue® integration is fully compatible with other ADAM Software products like the ADAM InDesign® connector for automated catalogue building and the ADAM Docmaker Studio for web to print creation, editing and reviewing.
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ADAM Software signs OEM-agreement with AgilePoint
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ADAM Software is a European vendor of Enterprise Digital Asset management systems (DAM Vendor). Workflow is an important element into the product management of DAM-systems. As one of the major DAM-vendors, ADAM Software wants to offer its customers full integration with a best of breed solution in workflow management. Therefore, ADAM Software has chosen Agile Point as OEM-supplier to its workflow based solutions.
Today, the trend of asset management is towards fully integrated workflows, with digital asset management becoming a complete asset live cycle management (ALCM). During the live cycle of an asset (from creation over approval, to distribution and archiving), very flexible and variable workflows are executed. Pieter Casneuf, Partner of ADAM Software: “We were looking for a BPMS/E being capable of following these highly variable workflows to offer our customers intuitive designs and allow them to execute these workflows from ADAM without any expert knowledge prior to DAM. AgilePoint was the only vendor to understand our needs and to offer flexibility combined intuitively at enterprise level. Both system are full .NET which allowed us to take full advantage of Microsoft .NET technology”.
ADAM Software will launch a number of workflow enabled products in the near future combining the strengths of ADAM & AgilePoint. ADAM is the only enterprise DAM system combining the latest .NET technology with a complete business process engine.
“We are very pleased to have an OEM-Partner like ADAM Software“ said Hans Hantson, Channel Manager for Ascentn EMEA, “Like us they are focused on making their customers more productive. The AgilePoint BPMS suite brings a lot of value to many of our customers in allowing them to streamline their business processes. It is based on the latest .NET technology and therefore integrates particularly well with ADAM Software.“
ADAM holds a customer portfolio of global brands, such as Microsoft, Stanley, Corporate Express, InBev, Agfa, Sanoma Magazines, Philips Medical and many others. ADAM is flexible to a variety of asset live cycle management (ACLM) flows, including packaging workflows, brand management & collateral roll out, product data management and catalogue production, online proofing & web-to-print,…
About ADAM Software
ADAM is a Digital Asset Management company that provides clients the ability to manage, structure and deliver media between people, processes and systems. Our software has an intelligent open architecture that provides the ability to customize and continuously develop new applications using our ADAM SDK. We understand our clients’ needs to share and collaborate, automate mundane tasks and control quality. We are passionate in providing our clients with intuitive and easy to use software to help them organize media and distribute assets as quickly as possible. We have the knowledge of the way the media supply chain works, its people, the workflow and the common goal to publish and distribute quality content.
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About Ascentn:
Founded in 2002, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ascentn brings more than a decade of experience in creating large scale J2EE-based enterprise-class workflow management solution to the Microsoft space. Ascentn pioneered the AgilePoint suite, an enterprise-class BPMS solution based on Microsoft's .NET framework. AgilePoint empowers business managers to realize new levels of process values by assembling reusable IT assets and common services into executable process models that serve as either a workflow or a composite application. This advancement enables business managers to innovate
more freely and to deploy, manage, and continuously improve business operations on demand. From financial services, manufacturing, communications through healthcare, companies are turning to AgilePoint to drive process excellence, reduce costs and improve business agility. Ascentn's solutions drive the BPM initiatives of many leading global organizations including Siemens, Pfizer, Chinatrust, Cellcom, Elbit Systems, DaisyBrand and most recently, for
the world's largest computer maker. Ascentn has offices in North America, Asia Pacific (Taiwan, China, Japan) and EMEA (Belgium and Spain). For more information about Ascentn, please visit our Web site at www.ascentn.com.
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KODAK Smart Review System Provides Flexible Approval Workflow for ADAM’S Digital Asset Management System in the EAMER Region
ADAM Software, the European-headquartered global vendor of Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, is integrating the KODAK Smart Review System into its own system in order to provide customers with a high resolution online approval facility.
The trend in asset management is towards a fully integrated workflow, with digital asset management systems evolving into complete Asset Life Cycle Management (ALCM) tools. During the life cycle of an asset, from creation and approval to distribution and archiving, very flexible and variable approval workflows are executed. Online proofing is an important element of this extension of DAM system functionality.
The Smart Review System integrates Kodak’s proprietary imaging and color technology into a server-based proofing engine, enabling high-resolution on-screen proofing. Because the server “streams” just the information that is needed, users can view high-resolution images quickly and easily over any internet connection.
Pieter Casneuf, Partner at ADAM Software, said: “As one of the major DAM vendors, we want to offer our customers full integration with what we consider to be the best-of-breed solution in high resolution approval workflows. Therefore, ADAM Software has chosen Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group as OEM supplier for our workflow based solutions.”
He continues, “The KODAK system gives us the ability to provide one fluid workflow to our customers, which incorporates the design, approval and distribution processes while keeping full control of the assets within the life cycle. Customers benefit from a highly technical system which is presented to them via a very simple to use, personalized user interface. This brings a reduction in errors and an increase in the speed with which the cycle is complete.”
Thierry Callot, Product Marketing Manager for Portal Products at Kodak’s GCG Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region, said, “ADAM is a well-respected supplier in its field, with a blue-chip client base and an excellent reputation. We are proud that they have chosen KODAK technology and delighted to sign this agreement with them.”
ADAM technology is used by a wide variety of global brands, including Microsoft, Stanley, Corporate Express, InBev, Sanoma Magazines, Philips Medical and many others. The company takes a flexible approach to a variety of asset life cycle management flows, including packaging workflows, brand management and collateral roll out, product data management and catalogue production, online proofing and web to print.
About ADAM Software
ADAM is a Digital Asset Management company that provides clients the ability to manage, structure and deliver media between people, processes and systems. Our software has an intelligent open architecture that provides the ability to customize and continuously develop new applications using our ADAM SDK. We understand our clients’ needs to share and collaborate, automate mundane tasks and control quality. We are passionate in providing our clients with intuitive and easy to use software to help them organize media and distribute assets as quickly as possible. We have the knowledge of the way the media supply chain works, its people, the workflow and the common goal to publish and distribute quality content. More information is available at www.adam.be
About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the world’s foremost imaging innovator. With sales of $10.7 billion in 2006, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak’s system of digital and traditional products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using KODAK solutions for prepress, conventional and digital printing and document imaging; Creative Professionals rely on KODAK technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images.
For more information about Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group, visit www.graphics.kodak.com
Please follow this link to Kodak's image library: http://www.kodak.com/go/gcg_images
(Kodak is a trademark of Kodak)
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ADAM 4 is the latest and fully redesigned version of the ADAM Digital Asset Management Engine These days, digital assets are an inevitable part of every marketing process, be it brand management and distribution, packaging workflows, marketing collateral roll out on print or web, product data management or catalogue building. They are used by companies in various industries using different processes, but without exception they represent a huge intellectual and monetary value.
ADAM is a versatile digital asset management solution that helps you manage those processes from creation to distribution. It streamlines your asset’s lifecycle by letting you store, find and publish all types of assets: pictures, video, sounds, documents, presentations, page layouts, etc…. Adam Software has completely redesigned the ADAM Engine. In addition to the new streamlined and intuitive user interface, ADAM 4 is now 100% .NET and includes the ability to version, secure and manage the lifecycle and workflows of any media item in the asset library.
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Gradual Software, specialists in software solutions for automating the publishing process, extends the compatibility of its SWITCH product line with the ADAM asset management system. Advanced automation for a complete workgroup is done through PowerSWITCH. Using its comprehensive scripting and metadata tools users can build a smarter and more advanced workflow that integrates seamless with ADAM. Workflows can be made more "intelligent" by taking advantage of the metadata that increasingly is stored with documents. PowerSWITCH provides tools to read incoming metadata in various formats including XML, Adobe XMP and JDF. The contents of metadata fields can be used in ADAM to make routing decisions or to set processing parameters for automated tasks.
Examples of complex flows who integrated with ADAM are available for download at the Gradual Flow Library.
Microsoft has selected the ADAM software development framework to drive their prosource DAM solution across EMEA and in a later stage, on a global level. Microsoft selected ADAM after a competitive review of DAM solutions from numerous other providers. ADAM successfully passed Microsoft's stringent security audits, fully complying with all functionality and usage requirements. Microsoft will implement ADAM to link existing shared data and to consolidate fragmented asset distribution of processes and tools.
Prosource is a single source for all Entertainment & Devices (E&D) marketing collateral and enables internal marketing groups, media partners, retailers and the Internet community to access and download a variety of materials. Designed with a general Microsoft look and feel, prosource features an Xbox interface.
John Porcaro, Group Manager Xbox PR & Communications, Microsoft Corp., explains: “Our global marketing vendors and partners rely on us to provide instant access to hundreds of thousands of marketing assets: photographs, videos, screen shots, even huge layered files. Because we often deal with pre-release information, we needed a solution that allowed us to confidently share secure assets without worry of information leaking to competitors. In view of the shear volume of assets being managed daily, it was important to have a system that was easy to use, by our partners, our vendors, and especially our own employees. ADAM’s engine allowed us to build a global system with the features that will make it easier for our partners to work with us.”
"ADAM Software’s ADAM engine allowed us to quickly prototype and build a global Digital Asset Management solution. Their experience in this area made them a natural choice to tackle this strategic project, and their responsiveness and flexibility made the whole project easier than we imagined.” concludes Mr Porcaro.
A complete business case concerning the choice of Microsoft for the ADAM platform is available in the Download Center , register for free.
There are several DAM systems on the market and maybe you want an independent third party to be involved in your choice for ADAM. CMS-Channel® is an independent consultancy company specialising in Content Management Systems (CMS) and Online Marketing. As neutral CMS & online marketing experts they guide customers through the world of Web Content Management, Document Management Systems, Product & Catalogue Content Management Systems, Digital Asset Management Systems, Product Information Systems, Enterprise Content Management Systems, Portals, ... .
CMS Channel has targeted ADAM as one of the most important platforms today and we are delighted to add them to our growing network of consultants and system integrators . CMS-channel knows our products and our company, and will advise you in complete independence in all aspects of ADAM.
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