Category: Digital Asset Management

This month’s editorial topic is The DAM Manager’s Role.  From building a business case, procurement, strategy and implementation through to user onboarding, training, asset distribution, licensing and rights management, the DAM manager’s role is crucial in ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of your organisation’s digital asset supply chain.  The …

The latest participant in the DAM News Interviews series is Martin Reinheimer, Founder of IT solutions consultancy, proCress.  With a background in media management and over 25 years’ experience managing a broad range of global projects, Martin’s skillset spans multiple disciplines including software design, development and implementation.  Martin is …

This month’s editorial topic is DAM Software Pricing Trends.  One of the key findings from our DAM Vendor Pricing Survey was a tendency amongst vendors to be somewhat opaque concerning their pricing models and set-up fees.  Coupled with the impression that certain vendors appear to demand a premium simply …

This month’s editorial topic is DAM Security.  When discussing DAM security, we need to consider the potential value of an organisation’s entire digital asset legacy – whether it’s brand collateral, product information, or a carefully crafted digital campaigns media library, the investment costs in terms of time, effort, creativity, …

This month’s editorial topic is DAM for Brand Management.  A Digital Asset Management system can be instrumental in brand management by providing a centralised platform for storing, organising, and distributing brand assets and acting as a ‘single source of truth’ for approved marketing materials.  Dedicated Brand Asset Management (BAM) …

This month’s editorial topic is AI and DAM Innovation.  The latest developments in Digital Asset Management and AI are beginning to transform how organisations manage and derive value from their digital content.  One notable trend being bundled into many platforms is the integration of AI-driven metadata tagging and auto-classification …

This month’s editorial theme is AI and Legal Issues with DAM.  As vendors rush to integrate features such as facial recognition, auto-tagging and generative AI into their platforms, there are a number of legal considerations that organisations should be aware of when implementing AI, including data privacy, intellectual property …

Although we are still accepting contributions for our series on API-First and Headless DAM, we would like to introduce this month’s editorial theme of DAM and PIM (Product Information Management).

What is Product Information Management?

As the name suggests, PIM is a collection of technologies and methods that allow …

As composable software models become more prevalent in our technology stacks, the role of API-first and headless platforms is also on the rise, facilitating modular, customisable and reusable components.  In our upcoming series on the topic, we will be covering the fundamental concepts behind API-first DAM implementations, exploring how they …

Henrik de Gyor and Frank DeCarlo are hosting a webinar about the currently very hot topic of synthetic content on Tuesday 24th May at 2pm ET.  The event is the second in a series of webinars they have run about this subject.  The two other speakers are Oliver Feldwick, …

Yesterday, Acquia announced that they intended to buy up DAM vendor, Widen Enterprises.  The following is by Mike Sullivan, President and CEO of Acquia:

“With Widen, we continue to differentiate Acquia Open DXP by adding enterprise-grade, cloud-native DAM and PIM capabilities.  We will immediately invest in accelerated development of …