Scene7

Oct 24, 2011

24-Oct-2011 In our recently updated Digital & Media Asset Management Report version 4.0 , you'll find several new entrants to our research that I want to introduce to you. Let's start with Adobe Scene7 . Scene7 is a SaaS-based product best suited for web cataloging and print production scenarios. If you have been following Day Software (now, Adobe CQ) for as long as I have, you are probably wondering about how S7 compares to CQ DAM, and suspect there may be some similarities. And you would be correct. There is some functional overlap, as well as distinguishing features in both products, but most likely you’ll see convergence of the two going forward. The existing customer base will probably remain on either product, but in the future choices may need to be made. Scene7 – being part of the Adobe abode – works well with Flash, InDesign, and other members of the Creative Suite 5 family. S7, however, lacks *any* wokflow functionality. The majority of DAM/MAM vendors we cover are infamous for omitting this feature from their product roadmaps, so Adobe is not alone here. But this is also when Scene7’s adopted sibling CQ DAM might come to the rescue. There have been talks of CQ DAM as an alternative and/or complimentary addition to S7 to fix this gap -- though such an integration wouldn't be simple. As a pure-play DAM, Scene7 is far from ready for prime time. It may never even rise to the stars. All things DAM are a bit commotional and out of sync at Adobe, as I was just saying not long ago . Plenty more details on these two DAM/MAM products are available to our DAM subscribers .