Will Enterprise Content Buying Become an Integral Component of Content Digital Asset Supply Chains?


Enterprise Content Buying (ECB) providers could be viewed as the new breed of waiter in the DAM restaurant, efficiently ferrying digital content from numerous suppliers, through to the kitchen and on to your desk, to be consumed as desired.  ECB is a relatively fresh term in the digital asset management …

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The Politics Of Implementing Digital Asset Supply Chains: Parking The Enterprise Service Bus


I am currently involved in writing requirements analysis and specifications for several Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects.  There are some interesting themes I have observed recently in-relation to the politics of managing their implementation which might be instructive for others planning similar initiatives.

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DAM Interoperability – The Answer To The Orphan Works Problem For Asset Intellectual Property Owners?


My co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has written an article for CMSWire which they published yesterday: The Building Blocks Of Digital Asset Management Interoperability.  He has a slightly unconventional take on the interoperability subject which those with an IT/systems perspective might not have considered (but which is no less valid for …

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