In this article, CMS Watch’s Alan Pelz-Sharpe, discusses the astonishing lack of tangible return on investment that most ECM administrators could calculate for their incumbent systems. This is nothing new, Pelz-Sharpe continues, as in his opinion, all “ROI calculations for information technology are junk calculations, a fraud, a nonsense, and …
Continue reading »In a recent poll conducted by CMS Wire, usability was voted the biggest challenge faced by those tasked with the implementation of a digital asset management system. The poll, which ran over a week, found that taxonomy and metadata design were also a key concern, in addition to building a …
Continue reading »Daydream have released a new white paper today which deals with the subject of Metadata Management Strategies for Marketing based DAM. The report describes a number of tactics that marketing managers can use to improve the ROI from a DAM system by improving the quality of metadata.
Ralph Windsor of …
Continue reading »Open source ECM vendor, Nuxeo, who are featured on damvendors.com announced the general release of their DAM product: Nuxeo DAM.
Built on top of their ECM platform, Nuxeo DAM supports the full range of capabilities required of a modern DAM platform but with a progressive open source licence.
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Continue reading »CMS Wire’s Dee-Ann LeBlanc, provides February’s round-up of the latest industry news from the top vendors in the open source content management market.
“Welcome to the February installment of our what’s coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month.” [Read More]
Continue reading »Alfresco Software have released the latest version of their ECM product, Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2. This release has numerous new features, including cloud-deployment, a feature that the company hopes will allow its customers to address their content management requirements at far lower costs.
“With this release, Alfresco enables cloud-based …
Continue reading »To coincide with it’s 250th anniversary, Kew Gardens has made a multi-million pound investment into its IT infrastructure with Oracle technologies, Anh Nguyen at Computerworld reported yesterday. The project will overhaul the organisation’s digital asset management and web content management, in addition to HR and financial systems.
“The next stages …
Continue reading »In this article, CMS Wire’s Stephanie Lemieux discusses the key problems organisations face when managing their digital assets and why good metadata is essential to ensure maximum ROI for your digital asset management system.
“To maximize impact of spend and gain efficiency in the asset creation process, digital assets need …
Continue reading »In this article, CMS Watch’s Kas Thomas highlights the need to consider performance when investigating digital asset management or content management solutions for the organisation, and the woeful lack of any onboard performance profiling tools in many top DAM and WCM systems.
“In the real world, machines have fragmented hard …
Continue reading »In this article, CMS Wire’s David Roe, examines the key differences between record and document management and asks the question, will your document management system also support records management?
“With the growing importance of compliance and eDiscovery issues for many companies, it might be time to consider deploying a records …
Continue reading »In this article, Henrik de Gyor examines the need to properly manage the organisational shift that a DAM system leaves in its wake, from new technological processes and procedures to user expectations.
“Just like many projects today, as soon as we begin implementing and operating a DAM within an organization, …
Continue reading »In this article George Grippo, vice president of media asset management at North Plains, provides five steps that organisations can take to better video management.
“Most companies do not have a formal approach to create and manage this video. The lack of a formal approach, a video management strategy, results …
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