On our features section, I have written an article with some advice and recommendations about how to treat document assets which might be of interest to readers who have a number of assets of this type held within their DAM (or those who plan to in the future):
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Continue reading »One of the recent changes in DAM system technology over the last five years has been the increased use of cloud storage providers to hold asset files. Previously, most DAM solutions relied on a file storage method that worked more or less like a big hard disk, even if it …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, Extensis, announced the 2016 edition of their DAM solution, Portfolio yesterday. The new features are described below:
Asset check out and file locking read like they’re very similar features to me. I would …
Continue reading »One of the recent themes in DAM with the corporate users I deal with, is the role of mobile. When asked to explain the reasoning behind their interest, some commonly-held misunderstandings about our subject are sometimes revealed. These are partly related to topics I mentioned a few weeks ago in …
Continue reading »Last week, CMSWire published an article by Mohan Taylor, from North Plains: DAM Goes to Market(ing). This is one of the better argued pieces I’ve read about handling the marketing use-case in DAM:
“I fundamentally believe that the software solution is only as good as the …
Continue reading »Last week, DAM vendor, Widen, announced version 9.0 of their Media Collective DAM solution. Of particular note was the ‘Insights’ feature, which they released some press about:
“Widen Enterprises, a leading provider of software services that help marketing teams organize content, has launched Digital Asset Management (DAM) …
Continue reading »Recent visitors to DAM News might notice the sidebar with links from Tim Strehle’s Planet DAM feed which we have now syndicated (with Tim’s permission). Planet DAM is Tim’s hand-picked selection of DAM articles from different participants in our industry and includes vendors, consultants and a variety of personal blogs …
Continue reading »An issue I seem to encounter a lot when dealing with organisations who require assistance with their Digital Asset Management initiatives is a widespread misunderstanding about the difference between Digital Asset Management and Digital Marketing. You will often find those with responsibility for the latter being asked to make executive …
Continue reading »Deb Fanslow who is one of the editors of The DAM Directory (and who wrote the four-part feature article Who Needs A DAM Librarian?) together with John Horodyski have contributed a feature article for DAM News: DAM Student And DAM Professor Combine Forces For DAM Good. The article …
Continue reading »Earlier today,I cam across this item on Computer Business Review: $billion businesses lead digital content management adoption. The basis of the article is some research by analysts Kable where they highlight that approximately 75% of larger businesses with a $1bn+ turnover have now invested into Digital Asset Management technologies …
Continue reading »House & Co (who used to be known as ‘DigiEyeZ’) have announced the release of Media Manager, which is part of their DigiZuite range. The major features are:
Earlier this week, I saw an article on CMSWire by Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer of CMS vendor, Hippo. In How to Survive in a World Being Eaten By MarTech, he makes the point that marketing technology vendors need to integrate to enable users to aggregate the benefits of individual classes …
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