Elizabeth Keathley, of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation, has written a new DAM book: Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. The title covers a wide range of subjects associated with setting up DAM initiatives, including:
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
Continue reading »The DAM Guru Program established by vendor, Picturepark, is celebrating its first anniversary this week. Now with 400 members (including myself) it does appear to be gaining some industry-wide support, in no small part due to the fact that the sponsors have been assiduously careful to not use …
Continue reading »During the last week, we have been discussing metadata and DAM integration on our DAM News LinkedIn group. That has prompted me to consider this subject in more detail via a DAM News feature article: Digital Asset Management And The Politics Of Metadata Integration. The best practice recommendations …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, CMSWire published an article by David Diamond, author of The DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director at Picturepark, called: Why Images Don’t Belong in Your DAM. The title isn’t really about not storing images in DAM or anywhere else, it’s a wider philosophical discussion about …
Continue reading »One of our featured SaaS DAM vendors, Amsterdam based, Bynder, announced the release of version 4.0 of Enterprise Cloud Brand Portal 4.0. The update is focussed on MRM (Marketing Resource Management) modules and include:
The workflow management appears to be …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, have released version 8.6 of their DAM system. The key upgrade is the use of NoSQL to augment their indexing and searching features. They have also included these enhancements:
In the previous two parts to this article, I examined these topics:
In this final item, I will discuss the issues you need to …
Continue reading »Writing on his own AssertTrue blog, Kas Thomas (who I believe was once employed by ECM analysts, Real Story Group) has a critique of the monopolistic tendencies of Amazon in his article: Amazon: The Everything Company. The summary of the article is that Amazon give the impression of being …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced an updated version 2.7 of the On Brand DAM system (which they now own as part of their acquisition of UK vendor, Vyre in 2012). They have a novel take on side-stepping the ‘boss quote’ by using some …
Continue reading »This is the follow-up to the first part of this article published a couple of weeks ago. In that item, I discussed two issues:
One of the points covered in some depth was the likely existence of …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, have launched a DAM learning resources site and also a dedicated hashtag #LearnDAM. The site is coordinated by 2013 DAMMY winner, David Diamond, who is also the author of DAM Survival Guide as well as being Marketing Director of Picturepark. …
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