Category: DAM Education

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 …

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 …

Last week, we published an educational report, How To Buy Enterprise DAM Systems which quite a few people have since downloaded.  I have received several requests asking if any form of accreditation would be offered.  We did this for our Digital Asset Supply Chain for Marketers course and a number …

Last week’s webinar ‘The State of DAM User Adoption Today’ has now been compiled and published to YouTube.  Hosted by Frank DeCarlo from RPR Graphics, and featuring insights, tips and opinions from industry experts Lisa Grimm, Ian Matzen, Ralph Windsor and Henrik de Gyor,  the session takes a deep …

My co-contributor, Charles Russell and I have recently written a jointly authored DAM News feature article about developing business cases to get funding for DAM solutions:

“With the roll-out of complex foundational platforms such as Digital Asset Management, many managers may request oversized budgets to cover the risk of …

LogicSource Director and DAM expert Carol Thomas-Knipes has kindly provided us with the supporting material for her recent presentation at last week’s Insight Exchange Network (IEN) DAM Practitioners’ Summit that took place in New York.

Concerned with long-term sustainability, her advice should be valuable to anyone tasked with securing the …

My co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has recently published a feature article that considers the various types of relationship between DAM vendors and their partners.  Aside from explaining why service partners are required in the first place, Ralph also examines the often subtle differences between their role within the procurement and …

Continuing our feature article series on the attributes of effective DAM consultants, in the second article, I examine a consultant’s ability to work across the whole of the DAM initiative lifecycle and apply their previous experience to current DAM-related problems:

“In the previous article in this series, I examined …

Today I have contributed a feature article to DAM News which is going to be part of a series on the attributes of effective DAM consultants.  This has been inspired by recent client work I have carried out to help establish in-house DAM consulting operations.  The first item is …

I have recently contributed an article for our features section: Understanding DAM System APIs: A Primer For Non-Technical DAM Users.   This is in response to the lack of knowledge that many end-users seem to have about this subject (and in particular that simply having an API is insufficient, of …

Today we have released a DAM News premium report package, Develop Your Own In-House DAM Vendor Selection Expertise, which is part of a range of DAM educational and consulting materials we will be issuing in 2017:

“The first programme in the series is concerned with the DAM solution …