Earlier this year, we published a report with guidance about how to buy an Enterprise DAM system. The 86 page document has checklists, guidance notes, example RFP, vendor brief and demonstration briefs. As well as details about purchasing a DAM, it goes on to cover the implementation activities that …
Continue reading »Today, I have written a feature article about a gradual change in the level of professionalism in the DAM software market and how this is (very slowly) increasing as scalability becomes more of a priority for end users as well as vendors. I use the analogy of Roy of The …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, we opened the DAM News Jobs area (which has been moved over from DAM Guru, where it was held previously). Job posting is open to anyone with a standard DAM News Subscriber account, which are free for everyone. In addition to end-users, we are also now …
Continue reading »I have recently contributed a feature article for DAM News entitled A Simple Technique For Cloud DAM Customisation Without Needing For Unique Instances. This is a very quick and easy to implement method which is missing from numerous DAMs I encounter, probably the majority:
“Although the end-user thinks …
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Next week there are a few DAM and marketing technology related events coming up.
DAM Search Capabilities: How to find the right information? is being hosted by Nuxeo and is held on 4th August at 11am.
“Every DAM has search capability. And yet, in our survey of 1,000 creatives, …
Continue reading »Earlier this week, we released an ‘explainer’ stop-motion animation with an introduction to the basic concepts of Digital Asset Management which you can see below. There is a transcript available here: https://www.daydream.co.uk/what-is-digital-asset-management/ This is a practical illustration of how the principles of DAM can be applied, I have written a …
Continue reading »Norwegian DAM software vendor, Fotoware, have announced today that they have been acquired by Viking Ventures, a Nordic-focussed tech investment firm. The details are sketchy currently and there is no online press release link which I am able to provide, but this is from the blurb their PR people …
Continue reading »A few weeks ago I wrote the first article in this occasional series about the fibs that some DAM vendors tell. I discussed the type of disingenuous statements vendors come out with in-relation to roadmaps and their support for features in more generalised terms. This time, I want to …
Continue reading »A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.
Paul Melcher of IMGTAG writing on kaptur.co discusses the issues with fake images. He describes three main types of fake: out-of-context, modified and completely fabricated images (of …
Continue reading »Today we have launched the DAM News subscriber account facility which we have been trialling over the last few months with a number of DAM News readers. Two plans are available: registered and premium, Registered users get copies of several of our whitepapers and access to a number of our …
Continue reading »A collection of recent DAM-related articles from around the web, sourced from DAM Federation member, Planet DAM.
Unlocking Competitive Advantage with System Integration
Andrew Lomas writes on a LinkedIn article about the potential benefits of systems integration. Andrew illustrates his thesis by drawing comparison with the way in which …
Continue reading »Duplicate asset detection is one of these deceptively simple problems that illustrates why DAM initiative implementation is rarely quite as straightforward as everyone involved hopes. This is an issue which crops up quite a lot when I get asked to help clients either review their existing DAM systems (or help …
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