Modula4 is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Founded in 2004 to create customized digital assets management (DAM) solutions, Modula4 has grown over the past 10 years to become one of the leading providers of custom DAM solutions worldwide. Modula4 serves over 100 clients through offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin, Germany. More than 400 customers have used their products and services which are available directly from Modula4 and though its global network of over 20 reseller partners.

“The growth of Modula4 over the past 10 years has been truly remarkable” says Modula4 CTO and co-founder Michael Gellner. “From its earliest days our focus has been creating custom solutions and providing excellent customer service. This proved to be a winning combination.”

In addition to building solutions using third-party software from partners such as Canto, Picturepark, WoodWing, 2imagine and Adobe, Modula4 has been a leader in producing products that add innovative features to DAM systems. These products include Web Module, a flexible and highly customizable web interface, Video Module which enables video transcoding and streaming previews, ImageSearch and ImageSorter, tools that lets users find assets by their visual content and the S3 Add-on, an integration with the Amazon cloud that puts high resolution assets managed by a DAM close to the people who need them.

Services offered by Modula4 include needs assessment, system planning, installation, configuration, training and support. Modula4 also has one of the largest engineering teams specifically dedicated to creating customized DAM solutions.

“Over the years Modula4 has hired and developed a highly skilled staff” says Jon Hornstein, CEO of Modula4. “Our engineers, consultants and solution specialists are really the heart of the organization. What they all have in common is a dedication to understanding our clients’ needs and delivering solutions to meets those needs.”

The systems provided by Modula4 are used by leading high tech and consumer product companies, media & entertainment organizations, major universities, government agencies and in the healthcare industry.

From the beginning Modula4 has made customer satisfaction its top priority. The result has been an annual client retention rate of over 90%. As it enters its tenth year Modula4 continues to build on this solid foundation by increasing staff at both worldwide locations in order to continue offering exceptional solutions and services to their expanding roster of customers.

To learn about how Modula4 can help your organization visit here.

Modula4 partner Picturepark is launching a new digital asset management educational initiative. Using the hash tag #LearnDAM the initiative is intended to make it easier to find useful, unbiased information on DAM products and practices. By searching Google, Twitter or other social networks for the unique #LearnDAM hashtag, DAM professionals can now more easily spot and re-share materials assumed to be focused on digital asset management education and not commercial agendas.

“Google doesn’t always get it right when it comes to filtering out nonsense,” said Picturepark global marketing director, David Diamond, who won the 2013 “DAMMY of the Year” for his educational contributions to the DAM industry. “DAM vendors and others with established websites typically rank higher in search results, even when the content they offer isn’t the best. We’re hoping #LearnDAM helps level the playing field so those who want to find these materials can find them.”

Picturepark has several new DAM educational initiatives planned for 2014. The company has already created several DAM education programs including DAM Guru, the “Learn DAM” website resources and as well as offering copies of David Diamond’s ebook “DAM Survival Guide” at no cost, all of which provide guidance that is unbiased and non-vendor specific.

Canto has announced the release of Cumulus 9.0.2, the latest update to its market-leading digital asset management software. Cumulus 9.0.2 represents the second incremental release since version 9 debuted in late October 2013, marking a shift from historically lengthy development cycles to more frequent software releases.

Cumulus 9.0.2  includes new additions to the Cumulus Web Client which enable customers to:

• Work with asset relations – variants and alternatives can now be viewed and edited in the Cumulus Web Client as well as contained assets.
• More responsive UI elements to make full use of larger screens.
• Work with a customized toolbox that automatically adapts to user’s specific roles.
• Apply metadata templates to files.

To learn more about Cumulus 9.0.2 please visit here. 

As Modula4 continues to grow we are looking for a Front-End Developer. Are you an expert in JavaScrip, jQuery, xHTML and XML? Would you like to work for a client-focused company that provides innovative solutions for blue-chip clients in a wide range of industries? If so, we want to hear from you.

Join the Modula4 team in our San Francisco Bay Area or Berlin, Germany office. Work with other dedicated technical, consulting and client service professionals who are focused on problem solving and customer satisfaction.You can see the full job description and instructions on how to apply here.

Canto has released Cumulus 9.01. The new release is now supported under Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks), the latest Macintosh operating system. In addition, the update adds several new features to the Web Client including the ability to delete assets, receive assets from user without accounts, auto logging-off to maximize available user licenses and other fixes and enhancements.

For more information about Cumulus, visit here or contact us by visiting here.

Modula4 partner WoodWing has released Enterprise 9.1, the latest version of their collaborative publishing tool. With WoodWing Enterprise you can now publish directly to social media services Facebook and Twitter. In addition, convenient new features have been added to make it easier to organize and find Dossiers and Web articles and now multiple files can be published to one Web article.

Other enhancements include thumbnail zooming, customized target URLs and enhanced support for Drupal integration.

WoodWing Enterprise 9.1 is available now. To learn more about WoodWing visit here.

As Modula4 continues to grow we are looking for smart, dedicated problem-solvers to help us expand our staff at our Berlin, Germany and San Francisco Bay Area offices. New positions include UI / UX Designer, Senior Developer and Software Engineer. Come work for a dynamic company that provides custom digital asset management (DAM) and publishing workflow solutions to a wide range of clients, from medium size organizations to Fortune 500 companies. If you have the right skills and experience, are a good communicator and are customer-service oriented we’d like to hear from you. Follow these links to see the job descriptions, requirements and information on how to apply.

UI / UX Designer

Senior Developer

Software Engineer

Modula4 Partner Picturepark has recently posted an article that explains what a multitenant DAM system is and why your organize might benefit from having one. The article illustrates scenarios in which multitenancy makes sense and options for deploying a multitenant system. It also examines the differences between systems based solely on roles vs. multitenant systems, and multitenant vs. multiinstance deployments. The article includes a checklist to help you determine if a multitenant system might be right for your organization.

You can read the article here. To learn more about Picturepark, visit here.

The latest update to 1publish, the cross-media publishing platform from Modula4 partner 2imagine, boasts extensive new features and improvements. 1publish 3.5 supports the use of InDesign Books, including updating and importing, and can use InDesign Books as templates. It also support a wide range of new export formats including ePub, EPS, single page and Twixi.

Other enhancements include:
– support for inked text boxes
– additional support for layers
– ability to work with Easycatalog for database publishing
– a translation module for the WYSIWYG editor interface
– integration with Picturepark and other DAM systems (in addition to the existing integration with Canto Cumulus)

1publish 3.5 is available now as either a hosted solution or installed onsite. For more information or to schedule a live demo, please contact Modula4 here.

Modula4 partner Picturepark has begun releasing weekly interviews with its guru members. Each interview asks a number of questions that are designed to offer some background on the guru’s expertise, and also shed some light on their challenges and successes. With more than 300 sign-ups to date, this should provide the DAM community with interesting reading for years to come. So far, three interviews have been released: Wendy Walker from Dalet, Mars Roberge from Nomad and, most recently, Matt Shirley from Nordstrom and Disney/Pixar. Visit the Guru Talks page to read them all.