Modula4 partner Picturepark announced they are now offering free 6-month Cloud DAM subscriptions to organizations actively seeking DAM solutions. Up to 10 users can participate in the evaluation. The move is intended to offer a more realistic software evaluation experience.

The accounts offered are full Picturepark Cloud subscriptions that enable users to upload and download files, edit metadata, share and publish files with anyone and more. Start-up training and technical support are also offered free of charge. To simplify the experience for users, Modula4 will assign a Picturepark “coach” to handle all questions and requests.

The free accounts are standard Picturepark Cloud accounts, so there will be no change in functionality for organizations who choose to work with Picturepark moving forward. Organizations that purchase Picturepark on-premise licenses can have their Cloud instances migrated to their local hardware.

Visit here to learn more about Picturepark.

Fill out the form below to register for your free 6-month subscription to Picturepark.

The video of the webinar “How Benefit Cosmetics Delivers Files Faster Using Amazon S3 Connector for Cumulus” is now available for online viewing. No registration is required.

Benefit Cosmetics, a global manufacturer and retailer of cosmetics needed a fast, secure and efficient way to deliver marketing and sales material, including large point of sale files to its offices, boutiques and partners around the globe. View this webinar to learn how Modula4 helped Benefit Cosmetics meet this challenge with their product, the S3 Connector for Cumulus.

Steve Kent, Digital Asset Manager at Benefit Cosmetics describes the challenges they faced and provide metrics showing how the S3 Connector for Cumulus significantly improved download speeds. Modula4 CTO Michael Gellner discusses alternative use cases and how the S3 Connector for Cumulus can be configured to support these other scenarios.

You can view the video here.

Benefit Cosmetics is a global manufacturer and retailer of cosmetics sold in over 43 markets worldwide. They were already managing their marketing assets with Cumulus at their San Francisco headquarters but needed a fast and efficient way to deliver large files managed by Cumulus to users around the globe.

In this webinar you will learn how Modula4 helped Benefit Cosmetics meet this challenge with their product, the S3 Connector for Cumulus.

June 4, 2014 @ 10 am – 10:45 am Pacific (1 pm – 1:45 pm Eastern)

Steve Kent, Digital Asset Manager at Benefit Cosmetics will discuss the challenge they faced providing marketing material to their boutiques around the world and provide metrics showing how using the S3 Connector for Cumulus significantly improved download speeds. Modula4 CTO Michael Gellner will discuss alternative use cases and how the S3 Connector for Cumulus can be configured to support these other scenarios.

Space is limited. Reserve your webinar seat now by visiting here.

Learn more about the S3 Connector for Cumulus here.

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 digital content, and less time searching, downloading, uploading, linking and relinking files.

Cumulus 9.1 also adds multiple features to address the growing needs of digital archivists and back-end digital asset management system administrators. Power users can now bulk edit categories and apply metadata templates to save time cataloging massive photo shoots, organizing live event photography and more. Customers can now easily see who has what level of access to any object in Cumulus, making highly granular file permission handling even easier. The new version of Cumulus gives power users greater control over how fields are displayed to everyday users, such as the ability to specify a different number of digits that should display for currencies versus GPS coordinates from geotagged images.

Cumulus 9.1 now includes items that were previously sold as separate add-ons, specifically the PDF Extended Pack, Office Extended Pack, InDesign Extended Pack and Sites Community, thus simplifying installation and improving user experience.

To learn more about Cumulus visit here or contact Modula4.

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 and the Picturepark excerpt of DAM Survival Guide. All future titles will also be available without download forms.

As a matter of policy, Picturepark has never treated downloaders as sales prospects, so the company expects no operational changes as a result of the decision. The few forms that remain on the company’s website are required for requests for which personal contact information is required for contact reasons, such as Picturepark demo account requests and DAM Guru Program memberships.

Picturepark webinar recordings have been available without sign-up forms since 2012.

You can learn more about Picturepark by visit here.

Download Picturepark’s eBooks here.

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 less time searching, downloading, uploading, linking and relinking files.

The webinar is on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern. Click here to register.

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 and files and setting them to the next Workflow Status and new keyboard shortcuts and menu commands.

To learn more about WoodWing visit here.

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 of our clients.

Feedback from customers is the single most important factor that helps us improve our products and services. We make every effort to ensure that the surveys we send are as brief as possible while still comprehensive enough to capture the information we need to better server our clients. If you are our client, please take the time to complete the survey when it arrives so we can get your valuable feedback.

If you want to be sure the survey is sent to you or you want to provide immediate feedback, please visit here and let us know.

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 and university programs and certificates.

You can view the article directly on the CMS Wire site here.