Yesterday, CMSWire ran an article Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop written by David Diamond, author of the The DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director of Picturepark and contributor to DAM News. David looks at why Photoshop has been more successful as a product than the entire DAM …
Continue reading »Last month, I wrote an article for CMSWire: Real World Digital Asset Management ROI where I looked at some of the popular methods you see used for ‘proving’ ROI in a quantitative fashion. The summary was that when consultants, analysts and vendors offer hard ROI numbers to support a pre-implementation …
Continue reading »Last week, we reported that the UK Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which contained a section permitting orphan works had been passed. This follows earlier legislation by the EU allowing government agencies to do the same. David Riecks has written an article: Six Ways to Keep your Digital …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw, who are better known by the name of their flagship system, TACTIC, have released version 4.0 of their open source DAM solution. The new features include:
This quote from CEO, Gary …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picturepark and previous contributor to DAM News has written a special feature for us once more with the title: Become A DAM Superhero. The article discusses how often a single individual within an organisation is required to …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have added two features they call “Web-To-Digital” and “Web-To-Mobile”. They appear to be automated derivative (or surrogate) asset generation capabilities. This from the digital one:
“Marketers responsible for digital marketing specifically have access to the web-to-digital feature which generates digital …
Continue reading »After a brief pause, we are resuming our ongoing analysis of DAM Value chains. For those who are new to this subject, the introductory article explains more about what it is. Next up on the list of subjects, is Collaboration.
What Is Meant By Collaboration?
In DAM terms, …
Continue reading »Subscribers to David Riecks’ Controlled Vocabulary group may have seen a post by David himself: why app developers / providers have such a dim view of their users intellectual property. This describes an exchange he had with developers on EyeEm, including this response:
“it’s definitely not a technical challenge. …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released PIMS 3.2, their Product Information Management module. The features seem to be as follows:
One of our featured DAM Vendors, WoodWing, have released version 4.0 of the Elvis DAM solution. The three main upgrades seem to be:
Picturepark are hosting a webinar about content copyright, social media and the issue of so called orphan works which we have covered a lot on DAM News recently. Although Picturepark are organising the event, it is less about DAM and more about copyright issues. The speakers include: Michael Steidl, from …
Continue reading »There were a couple of items that caught my attention this week and they pinpoint some truths about the future of DAM software and possibly a wider point about software in general. The first was this item by David Diamond, author of The DAM Survival Guide, explaining why he …
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