Vendor Details
Contact Name
Bruno Van Den BosscheCompany Profile
With its Media Asset Management products called MediaHaven, Zeticon offers a versatile solution for Media Asset Management for customers in the broadcasting industry, corporate environments and public sector. MediaHaven helps you manage the storage, retrieval, and distribution of digital media files throughout your organization. It enables you to cope with the growing size and ever-increasing number of media files in a cost-efficient way. At the same time, it creates new possibilities to better valorise your media content.The Zeticon team consists of highly-skilled professionals who combine an extensive technological knowledge with a broad experience in software development and integrating solutions into existing and new workflows. Based on its flexibility and experience, the Zeticon team consistently delivers on schedule innovative, cost-effective, state-of-the-art solutions in its many projects
Contact Telephone
+32 (0)9 275 31 31Contact Email
bruno.vandenbossche@zeticon.comCompany Website
http://www.zeticon.comYears Trading
7Office Locations
Product Name
MediaHavenDate Of Last Release
05/05/2013Company LinkedIn URL
http://www.linkedin.com/company/zeticonLicensing
Licensing Model
This refers to the type of licence the DAM system software is supplied under. Proprietary means that the developer restricts access to the source code (the instructions used to generate the software). Open source means that the developer provides full access to the code so you can modify it yourself. Split model is hybrid and means they may offer both options with some restrictions removed (or added) depending on the model chosen. If split is selected, it is advisable to verify the differences with the vendor.
Hosting
Software Delivery Methods
Technology
Client
Client refers to the type of hardware or software device that can be used to access or control the DAM system.
Search
Search Features
This describes the search strategies that can be used to find assets. If you do not understand any of them, leave the options de-selected. Most DAM systems should support at least keyword search at a minimum.
Index/Search Text Content Of Documents
Some DAM systems can search the text content of document assets and that might be important for your DAM solution.
Metadata
Embedded metadata support (reading)
Embedded metadata refers to information stored within asset files which can be searched from the DAM system. There are different standards for this type of metadata. Some image cataloguing software like Adobe Lightroom will write this data to asset files and a device like a camera may capture details also such as GPRS coordinates where an photo was shot. XMP metadata is often used with other types of files such as InDesign or PDF. If you are unsure whether this applied to you, do not check any options.
Controlled Vocabularies
Controlled Vocabularies are predefined lists of search terms. They can be realised in many different ways but the common factor is the user picks from a restricted selection rather than enters a keyword. Most DAM systems will usually support both controlled vocabularies and keywords.
Asset Processing
Dedicated/Scalable Proxy or Derivative Asset Generation
Nearly all DAM systems will generate thumbnails and previews of media, including more dynamic types like video or audio. Some products use a separate server to do this which usually makes them more suitable for large scale asset ingestion and processing.
Asset Manipulation
Image Manipulation
Many DAM systems allow users to manipulate images by resizing, cropping etc. Choose any features which are important to your users.
Video Manipulation
Some DAM systems may allow video assets to be converted or modified. If that is a potential requirement for you, specify those features which are likely to be needed. EDL = Edit Decision List and refers to providing in/out points when editing video footage.
Integration
API
API means Application Programming Interface and allows third party software to control a DAM system. If you intend to integrate your DAM with another existing solution then you need to choose the API protocol that is compatible with that.
Authentication
Authentication Support
If you need to integrate with an existing corporate authentication service then this option will be important for you.
Multi-Lingual Options
Multilingual Application Interface Support
The interface means the controls to use the DAM system. This is different from the metadata support which is usually entered by end users when cataloguing assets.
Multilingual Metadata Support
See previous question. Most DAM systems with multi-lingual support will provide it for metadata.