Canto has released Cumulus 9.1 featuring improved performance, easier permissions management, more flexible field display and an optional integration with Adobe Drive. The Adobe Drive Adapter for Cumulus allows customers to search digital assets managed by Cumulus from within InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, so creative staff can spend more time producing …  Read More >

Modula4 partner Picturepark now allows visitors to their website to download its digital asset management (DAM) white papers and eBooks without filling out forms. The company sites increasing global concerns about privacy as a primary motivator for the decision. Three titles are immediately available for direct download: Enterprise DAM Checklist, DAM Prep in 7 Steps …  Read More >

Canto is hosting a free webinar showcasing the Adobe Drive Adapter for Cumulus. This Cumulus add-on lets creative staff for search assets managed by Cumulus from within Adobe Creative Suite applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects using Adobe Bridge. This allows creative staff to spend more time producing digital content, and …  Read More >

Modula4 partner WoodWing has released an update their collaborative publishing production system. WoodWing Enterprise 9.2.1 offers several new features including enhanced form support for both Drupal and WordPress, MYSQL configuration options, and the ability to control the quality of preview and thumbnails through Image Magick. Additional new features include support for silently checking in articles …  Read More >

Last month Modula4 began sending surveys to users of our technical support service after each issue is resolved in order to get feedback on their level of satisfaction using Modula4 support. Based on the success of that program we will soon send out the first of what will be an annual general survey to all …  Read More >

David Diamond, Director of Global Marketing for Modula4 partner Picturepark, has written an article for CMS Wire titled “Getting Started with Digital Asset Management” that lists many excellent vendor-neutral digital asset management (DAM) educational resources. The resources listed in the article include books, white papers, web sites of special note, the DAM Guru mentoring program …  Read More >

Modula4 Partner WoodWing has added new abilities to the Content Station Basic user interface. Beginning with the recently released 9.2.0 Build 51 basic users are allowed to manage content to Publication Channels. Previously this functionality was only available in Content Station Pro. Basic users are now allowed to: Add and remove Publication Channels for files …  Read More >

Recently a severe vulnerability in OpenSSL known as the Heartbleed bug was announced. Modula4 has assessed the risk to the systems it has deployed of being effected by  the Heartbleed bug. We have determined the risk is extremely low. The vast majority of the systems deployed by Modula4 don’t use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol …  Read More >

Modula4 has just released the S3 Connector for Cumulus, a new product that integrates Cumulus with the Amazon S3 cloud. Now images, graphics, videos and documents managed by Cumulus can be downloaded quickly by users anywhere in the world. Put assets close to the people who need them. Reduce download times and the bandwidth costs …  Read More >

Modula4 partner Picturepark has published a new eBook that provides useful information for those planning and deploying a digital asset management system. Titled “DAM Prep in 7 Steps” the book is part of Pictureparks #learndam initiative which provides digital asset management educational materials that are neither sales-focused nor specific to any particular DAM solution. “DAM Prep …  Read More >