Digital Asset Management news, articles and features covering core DAM topics that are essential reading for everyone interested in this industry.
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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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Kevin Groome, Founder of CampaignDrive by Pica9, has recently posted an in-depth article that presents a number of tell-tale signs that should assist you in gauging whether or not your DAM system is becoming a zombie, along with a number of steps to reverse the process and breathe …
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 »DAM News contributor, Spencer Harris, has recently posted an updated review of Bynder’s ‘Orbit’ DAM platform. His first review was back in September 2017 and concluded that although Orbit was a good starting point for a cloud-based sharing platform, it didn’t quite live up to expectations and had …
Continue reading »VP for Nuxeo, Uri Kogan, has recently published the penultimate article in his 7 Common Beliefs in the DAM Market series. For this post, Uri turns his focus to that ubiquitous herald of the new age, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically, its potential uses within Digital Asset Management.…
Continue reading »Elizabeth Keathley, author of Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos and owner of Atlanta Metadata Authority, has written an article for DAM Foundation, where she discusses The 10 Characteristics of a Digital Asset Management System. She offers the following:…
Continue reading »Jeff Lawrence, of consultants, Celerity who we featured in June has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Asset Management: Finding the Right Fit for Your Company. The item is an introductory primer on the various factors you will need to think about, including:
In this special DAM News feature, Ralph Windsor interviews David Diamond about the DAM Guru Program which David has established. DAM Guru is a scheme that aims to connect DAM consultants or subject experts (‘Gurus’) with those who need to learn more about an aspect of DAM (or ‘Newbies’) . …
Continue reading »Metadata guru, David Riecks, whose Controlled Vocabulary site and associated Yahoo group is often featured on DAM News has written an article: The Building Blocks of DAM. He outlines six major areas that are common to nearly all DAM systems and also some that are not. These include:
