Naresh Sarwan

Naresh Sarwan is senior technical writer and head of features for Digital Asset News. Prior to working for Digital Asset News, he was lead technical editor at DAMToolkit.com and worked as DAM technology consultant for a range of media organizations including The BBC, Image Source, Digital Vision, ITN, Sky, Accenture, BT and Cisco.

Asset Liability And Accessibility Trade-Offs In DAM

July 11, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Copyright And IPR

David Diamond, Marketing Director of Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Liability Management. The item is about dealing with the complexity of asset licences when storing digital assets inside DAM systems, especially when using media from third party sources that …

New Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory

July 8, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Vendors

Last week, we soft-launched a completely revised Digital Asset Management Vendor Directory. This is replacing our existing simplistic A-Z list, which with close to 90 entries had grown rather unwieldy. I am pleased to report that our new directory is now fully live.

On the new DAMVendors.com site, you …

Vendors

celum Update IMAGINE With 2013.3 Release

June 24, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Vendors

One of our featured DAM vendors, celum, have released a new version of their DAM system, IMAGINE. This release, 2013.3 includes the following updates:

SE version (essentially a ‘lite’ edition of the enterprise product)
New look and feel
Social media content management for controlling distribution to social media

Vendors

Widen Media Collective Version 6.4 Released

June 13, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Vendors

One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have released version 6.4 of their Media Collective DAM solution. The new features are:

Dropbox integration
Support for writing embedded metadata in IPTC and XMP format
InDesign file previews
HTML5 browser upload (to replace the previous Java based upload feature)
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Practical Interoperability Challenges – Why Your Digital Assets Are Still In Their DAM Silos

June 7, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Digital Asset Management Value Chains

Loraine Lawson, on IT Business Edge, wrote an article last month: Five Reasons Why Cloud Integration Is So Gosh-Darn Hard. She references another article: The Cloud Experience Drives New Data Management Directions by Julie Hunt. Julie’s article discusses the various reasons why users of Cloud or SaaS products …

Digital Asset Management Value Chains

Metadata Management Strategies For Digital Asset Management Whitepaper

June 5, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Special Features

DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written a whitepaper: Metadata Management Strategies For Digital Asset Management. The reports discusses a three-way strategy for improving the quality of metadata applied to assets in DAM systems:

Simplify the process of entering metadata
Educate users about how to catalogue assets properly

Special Features

The Role Of Interoperability In DAM UX

May 31, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Special Features

Ralph Windsor, contributing editor at DAM News has written a special feature article exclusively for us: Resolving The DAM UX Paradox. The piece is mainly concerned with the differences between the interface needs of heavy DAM users vs more occasional usage.

Ralph describes how there is a paradox unfolding …

Special Features

Digital Asset Management Value Chain – Storage

May 24, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Digital Asset Management Value Chains

Continuing our on-going series on the DAM Value Chain, next up it is the turn of storage and its position in the range of services and facilities that a multi-vendor DAM service delivery offer would need to include.

This is one of the simpler elements to grasp about DAM. …

Digital Asset Management Value Chains

evolphin Update Workflow Automation Features

May 9, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Vendors

One of our featured DAM vendors, evolphin, announced an update to their product, Zoom. The new features are centred around workflow and automation in particular:

“Auto task” feature (which sounds like what some might refer to as ‘triggers’ or ‘hooks’) where jobs like asset manipulation, email notifications can

Vendors

ADAM Release ADAM 5

May 8, 2013 By Naresh Sarwan in Vendors

One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, have released version 5 of their core DAM offering. As seems to be a common theme with their press, finding out what is new is a linguistic challenge in itself, but this seems to be the summary: