• •,, announced the 2016 edition of their DAM solution, Portfolio yesterday. The new features are described below: • Version control • Asset check out and check in • File locking • Secure, Centralized Storage Asset check out and file locking read like they’re very similar features to me. I would guess the difference is that check in allows any user to lock a file whereas ‘file locking’ enables an administrator to do this without any workflow implications – but there’s no detail on this in the press. I did find which more or less confirms what I thought. I would want to know more about the ‘secure centralized storage’ and what exactly this is, apart from access to assets being mediated by user access controls (which is the case for almost every other on-line DAM system available). There is quite a long list of other features described in the press release, but ensure you read this line which precedes it: “ These new features build on the rich set of functionality Portfolio is known for” [] In other words, the second list of items were there already and were first offered in prior editions. When companies do this, it suggests they haven’t got much new to say and need to pad out the press release with filler copy.