Against the backdrop of hype, promise and innovation, real-world adoption of blockchain technology has been markedly slow. While many businesses and organisations have shown a willingness to learn more about distributed ledger technology (DLT), the overwhelming array of available options (many of which appear to offer the same thing), has …
Continue reading »A genre that’s become as tenacious as its undead agitators, the zombie movie has been with us for over half a century now. In comparison, innovation within the DAM sector appears to have already reached the rigor mortis stage and the whiff of decomposing imagination is beginning to wrinkle the …
Continue reading »Nora Gehin, from Digital Asset Management vendor Widen has recently published an article pitting file-sharing platforms such as Dropbox and Google Drive against dedicated DAM systems. It’s an argument that – aside from being overcooked – consistently manages to over-simplify the comparison and fails to identify the core underlying differences …
Continue reading »Crypto news website CryptoSlate have recently published an article ‘Introduction to Bytom (BTM) – A Digital Asset Layer Protocol’. Bytom’s mission statement, outlined in their whitepaper, is “to bridge the atomic world and the byte world, to build a decentralized network where various byte assets and atomic …
Continue reading »Marketing and asset management outfit Aprimo have recently announced a couple of innovations for content marketers and creatives: a rather unimaginatively named ideation tool called ‘Idea Lab’, and the Article Editor, which ‘enables content marketers to support text-based content along with rich media content in one single, easy-to-use interface’.
Aprimo’s …
Continue reading »Media solutions outfit IPV has just announced the release of a new version of its asset management system. Presented as an all-in-one media asset management suite, Curator 2.0 is due to be showcased at the 2018 NAB show in Las Vegas.
I’m not overly keen on name-dropping as it often …
Continue reading »An interesting little nugget has recently appeared on the Coindesk blog, entitled ‘In 10 Years We Won’t Have Blockchains’. Its author, and Vice President for blockchain at Talla.com, Will Murphy, posits that the term ‘blockchain’ will no longer be meaningful in the future. He begins by summarising the …
Continue reading »Evolphin have recently published a press release outlining a new version of their Zoom Media Asset Management (MAM) solution. Now in its seventh year, this latest release represents a comprehensive and mature platform equally suited to content creators, marketing departments and publishing outfits, and aims to manage the total lifecycle …
Continue reading »DAM News contributor, Spencer Harris, has recently posted an updated review of Bynder’s ‘Orbit’ DAM platform. His first review was back in September 2017 and concluded that although Orbit was a good starting point for a cloud-based sharing platform, it didn’t quite live up to expectations and had …
Continue reading »DAM News editor, Ralph Windsor has been appointed as the new Director of the DAM Guru Program (DGP), a community focused on providing Digital Asset Management educational resources and connecting its network of managers, vendors, consultants and users.
“Consolidating the combined resources of DGP with DAM News represents an …
Continue reading »Customer Experience and Content Strategy guru Alan J. Porter has recently published an article on CMSWire entitled ‘Don’t Dismantle Data Silos, Build Bridges’.
The analogy he weaves – of castles representing data silos and drawbridges representing integration and interoperability is not an unfamiliar one to us here at …
Continue reading »Vice President of Development and Strategy at Extensis, Toby Martin, has recently published a rather reflective article entitled ‘Retrospective on Digital Asset Management Technology’ with the strapline ‘Putting the DAM Puzzle Pieces Together in 2017, 2018 and Beyond’.
Like numerous other articles from Extensis, it …
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