One of our featured DAM Vendors, Asset Bank, presented some new features they added to their DAM solution during December 2013 on their blog. The upgrades are:
Reviewing existing Digital Asset Management provisions seems to be a common consulting request for my firm these days and is no doubt due to a maturing wider DAM market. Between a third and half of the prospective users of a new DAM system who contact us already seem to have …
Continue reading »DAM conference organisers, Henry Stewart have announced their conference schedule for 2014. The dates are:
There is some comment from DAM industry …
Continue reading »Late last year, there was an article written by Elliot Sedegah on business2community.com with the title: Make Digital Assets a Part of Your Marketing Growth Story in Three Steps. I usually find items with titles along the lines of ‘eat yourself thinner in 24 hours’ to be less than …
Continue reading »Yesterday, DAM Foundation published an item by Elizabeth Keathley of Atlanta Metadata Authority: Staffing for a DAM: Finding Successful Digital Asset Managers.
To clarify (for anyone who might not have understood the difference) “Digital Asset Managers” is usually a reference to a real human being who has responsibility …
Continue reading »Two of our featured DAM vendors, SDL and North Plains, have announced a strategic partnership where SDL will resell North Plains various Digital Asset Management solutions along with their range of WCM and translation products. The ‘boss quote’ from SDL CEO, Mark Lancaster, has unfortunately let the side down …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, Extensis (one of the few who have yet to finalise a damvendors.com profile) have announced Flow, a mobile application that integrates with their Portfolio Server DAM system. Here is the ‘boss quote’ from Chad Slater, Director of Engineering at Extensis:
“Extensis worked in concert with our …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark announced last week that they have begun offering ‘regional cloud’ deployments of their DAM solution. These are true locally operated DAM SaaS implementations rather than just being single customer instances hosted in a local data centre. This is the quote from Ramon …
Continue reading »On Friday, one of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, announced Workflow 2.0 (which is an actual upgrade from 1.0, rather than a marketing play on words). ADAM are are firmly in the Microsoft camp so their workflow solution uses Visio to allow users to employ visual tools to …
Continue reading »Many DAM vendors have recently been copying each other’s marketing strategies by promoting these ROI Infographics that claim to tell you exactly how much money a ‘typical’ DAM can save without any real basis in fact or plausibility. My co-contributor made the comparison with ‘zombie vendors’ a few months ago…
Continue reading »Desirae Odjick writing on the ConceptShare blog has made a comparison of Best of Breed and what she terms ‘All In One’ software. The former is an implementation strategy where multiple applications developed by different vendors are combined. The latter is an aggregated package, usually delivered through interdependent components and …
Continue reading »I gather from some of our readers that today is what they colloquially refer to as refer to as “Black Friday” and stores or other retail outlets are known to discount some items in acknowledgement.
As such, in the same spirit, I would like to draw your attention to the …
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