Chuckwalla Inc. on Monday introduced a new version of its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution for enterprises — Chuckwalla v5. While the new version leverages Microsoft technology including Windows 2000 Server and .NET, it also supports the Mac natively.
Chuckwalla organizes audio, video, text and image assets using a software development kit (SDK) for Microsoft .NET, which publishes the content as a set of Web services. The software’s “FileSmart” technology manages popular image, drawing, document, Web and multimedia formats, and indexes textual content, as well as metadata — stored using MS SQL or Oracle databases.
Of specific interest to Mac users is a new native Macintosh client that enables them to use Chuckwalla on a Mac equipped with Mac OS X or Mac OS 9.2 or higher. The software uses TCP/IP to connect to the server and supports drag & drop asset management, basic and advanced searching, viewing and editing of metadata, and more. Administrators can also use the Mac client to mange folder permissions within the system.
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