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I love it, when customers embrace new features….

By on May 15, 2013 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

As you probably know, we are in the finishing stages of testing Razuna 1.6 before releasing it to the public. It contains more than 250 bug fixes, enhancements and new features. I know Nitai and the team has been hard at it and some of the new features are really impressive. I almost can’t wait for it to hit the streets.

One small feature, which I personally faught hard to get released before time is the ability to add thumbnail images to folders. I may not sound like a big deal to you, but the reality is that it has huge impact on what you can do with shared folders.

Shared folder icons

So far – a shared folder would show a traditional folder icons, like this folder-icon It looks nice enough, but imagine you want to share all sorts of images tugged into any number of subfolders. Then – it doesn’t immediately give you a good overview as all the folders look alike and online the folder name separates them.

With the new folder thumbnail feature, you can choose any image as the folder icon. It could be an image you upload or you can quickly choose between any of the images in the folder.

Danish furniture design brand, GlobeZero4, jumped right in

I was talking to one of our customers about this feature, since they rely havily on sharing folders with their customers, the press and dealers. It’s the famous Danish furniture brand, GlobeZero4. They embed Razuna directly on their website in order to provide access to images and video of all their designs. And to avoid updating all these digital assets in multiple locations, they keep everything  in Razuna and share on their website using the shared folder widget.

So – a couple of minutes after talking about it, their marketing manager sent me a link and the following short message

All folder icons uploaded. That just improved the clarity by a couple of hundred percent. Thanks.

Take a look at judge for yourself here. I just love it, when customers embrace our new features and like them. I’m sure with the full release of 1.6 I will be a very happy man indeed.

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Razuna at cfObjective 2013 – Razuna talk, Razuna MuraCMS plugin and Razuna booth

By on May 9, 2013 in CFML, Digital Asset Management, Razuna

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We are happy to announce that Razuna – the famous open source Digital Asset Management solution – will be a Gold sponsor of the cfObjective 2013 conference taking place in Bloomington, MN from Mai 15th – 18th.

At cfObjective our fellow developers will have a change to see why many worldwide renowned corporations like EMC, Plantronics, Vaynermedia, Riversand, BBC, WorldNow, Unilever and many more  have taken to Razuna and use it on a daily basis to centralize their files and leverage the API to integrate seamlessly with their own software stack.

Furthermore, we will release the official Razuna plugin for MuraCMS! Just as with our WordPress, Typo3 and Drupal plugin we now extend the reach of having a centralized Razuna server to the MuraCMS community and customer base. We are very excited about offering this enhancement and becoming part of the MuraCMS ecosystem.

We invite you to attend the talk of our very own CTO Nitai Aventaggiato. He will be talking on Razuna, how it has taken the Digital Asset Management world by storm and how easy it can be to leverage Razuna in your next project in his “Razuna DAM – why you want it and how to use it in your next project” talk.

cfObjective is the only Enterprise Conference for Coldfusion and attracts many developers and customers worldwide. We are looking forward to meeting many of our fellow developers in person. Don’t forget to come by our booth and say hello.

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Razuna 1.6 Beta 1 available – major enhancements to the Open Source Digital Asset Management platform

By on April 17, 2013 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

It gives us great pleasure to announce the immediate release of Razuna 1.6 Beta 1 today. Though, labeled as “Beta 1″ this version has been in production with many of our customers for the last couple of months. We are releasing this as “Beta” in order for you to give the new features a whirl. Many of the new features have been sponsored by some of our customers. No wonder, that Razuna 1.6 comes with major enhancements.

Here is a short list of the main enhancements for Razuna 1.6:

Workflow

The new Workflow plugin is a huge production boost for your media management. Some of our early adapters love how easy it is to put together a workflow and assign actions to it. With the workflow you can, for example, apply actions to files being uploaded such as; notify a group or user, move the uploaded file(s) to another folder, assign labels and metadata (also custom metadata) to the file or even call an external URL to let your other systems in the workflow know about the new additions. Additionally, you can execute Rendition Templates within a workflow. The Workflow plugin is now available and is a plugin which you can obtain from Razuna for a price.

White-Label Razuna

Ever wanted to have your own DAM system? With the new White-Labeling option you can now embed Razuna into your own system and customize Razuna like you want. The White-Labeling option gives you all the tools needed to tweak each link, change the look and feel, add your own news and many more branding options to Razuna.

Akamai Support

Another addition to our ever expanding cloud and streaming options is the new Akamai support. With it, you can now integrate Razuna with Akamai and keep files in sync between Razuna and Akamai’s NetStorage allowing you to use Akamai’s CDN as your content store (just like with the existing Amazon S3, Nirvanix and Eucalyptus options).

Rendition Templates

Many of our customers love the “Rendition Templates”. This comes as no surprise, as it is an easy way to automatically convert any file to another format. Naturally, we expanded on this. In Razuna 1.6 the additional option to convert by DPI and multiple conversions per file type is available!

Moreover, Rendition Templates can now be assigned within Scheduled Tasks and within FTP uploads, also.

Metadata Form after uploading

Do you need your users to fill out required metadata fields after uploading a file? With the new Metadata Form you can now do that within Razuna.

Watermarks

In Razuna 1.6 you have the option to watermark images. Not only can you watermark each image, but you also have the option to create watermark templates. Watermark templates can be applied to renditions and to the rendition templates as well. In other words, you can stamp each image, according to size or format, with another watermark.

A watermark can be created from either an image or from text. Additionally, you can configure the alignment of the watermark within the image. Furthermore, transparency,  font type, size and color can be chosen as well.

Custom Metadata Fields

We have written about the usability of custom fields in the past and as our customers use custom fields within their projects, we are happy to bring two new features to custom fields. First is the option to order the custom fields (yeah, hard to believe that we did not have this before) and secondly, we have created a way to secure the editing of a custom field by a group and user (in order to make sure that only certain people can edit those field values that you hold so dear).

Developer Love

Many organizations adopt Razuna because it has one of the most versatile API’s available for a Digital Asset Management System. For Razuna 1.6 we have extended the API with many new methods. Additionally, you can include certain aspects of the Razuna UI in your application. In other words, simply call a dedicated page with your API key and Razuna will render the UI to you and your customers right within your application.

Moreover, Razuna 1.6 comes with a complete Plugin API. The new Razuna Plugin API will allow developers to build plugins and thus enhance Razuna in many ways. As an example our new Workflow and Akamai plugin have been completely built with the Razuna Plugin API. There are “hooks” and “events” available for you to create your own plugin.

We are very excited to open up Razuna in this way to the developer community. We are still working on documentation and examples and will publish them once ready.

Existing customers

Existing customers will be happy to know that we have continued to enhance existing features so that they can now convert images with DPI values, have multiple renditions created with Upload Templates (yes, also with DPI values), have the ability to import custom fields from XLS or CVS, have dedicated metadata fields available for renditions, within the customization tab you can set default values for shared folders/collections, included a “download metadata” for shared folders/collections, included the folder name in the search index, support for ProRes and Avid encoded videos, option to replace or append values in a batch operation and many more new options.

All in all, we’ve tackled over 240 issues in Razuna 1.6! Many that have been requested by our community and sponsored by our customers.

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server option.

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Razuna 1.5.5 allows you to include parts of Razuna in your application

By on March 4, 2013 in Digital Asset Management, Razuna

Since Razuna is being used more and more by other vendors, developers and integrators we are constantly being asked how to integrate certain parts of Razuna within an application. With the upcoming Razuna 1.5.5 release we now have an easy way that makes it a snap to integrate our uploader tool, a complete folder or search results.

A inclusion, of say the search results in your application can be done with a dedicated URL calling the custom view and in the case of the search with the same parameters that you use for the Razuna API. That’s it, you don’t need to learn anything new, all can be done with your API Key and a couple of parameters. As a result you get the search results back in the same user interface as within Razuna as shown below.

Razuna search results

The folder view alike can be brought in within your application with the same method. Additionally, you can pass the access permissions how the parts of Razuna should be shown, meaning if the user has read, read/write or full access to the files. For the folder view you can even send a list of fileid’s along and only those files will be shown in the foder view (despite having other files within the same folder). This is particularly useful for showing only certain files, e.g. images, that belong to a product or category.

As mentioned, we have already seen a wide adoption of this new feature with our partners and are now making this feature a integral part of the upcoming Razuna 1.5.5 release.

Razuna 1.5.5 is the most anticipated release bringing many new features like the new Plugin-System, along with the workflow engine, new features for custom fields, enhancements in many parts and overall over 200 major changes. Razuna is currently being deployed by over 2000 customers and is being integrated by many leading Software companies worldwide. The final release of Razuna 1.5.5 is being expected in the coming 8 weeks, with a first Release Candidate in the next 4 weeks.

How to get Razuna

Razuna is available over at http://razuna.org. You have the option to use our preconfigured Razuna Virtual Server, download the dedicated Razuna Standalone Server or deploy to your own J2EE-Server with our Razuna WAR/EAR distribution.

Razuna is also available as a Hosted Solution over at http://razuna.com. For teams and organizations we also offer a dedicated Razuna Server offering.

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