Digital Asset Management news, articles and features covering core DAM topics that are essential reading for everyone interested in this industry.
David Roe examines whether enterprise content management solutions that offer basic digital asset management features are a cost effective alternative for businesses with significant DAM requirements.
“If the decision as to whether an enterprise should deploy a full-blown digital asset management system has been complicated, new research from the Real …
Continue reading »The Web Content 2010 Conference takes place on June 7-8 in Chicago and offers some potentially interesting sessions for anyone involved in DAM or ECM, including:
This week the ‘Flash vs HTML5’ format war continued to rage with suggestions that Apple’s Flash embargo is based purely on commercial strategy and has nothing whatsoever to do with technical issues, a revelation that is sure to convince even more content and digital asset management software vendors that HTML5 …
Continue reading »It’s been quite a week for anyone engaged in the development of digital asset management systems, with changes on all fronts that could affect the way DAM vendors build their systems and comply with changing national and international copyright and IPR legislation. First, we reported on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) …
Continue reading »On 5th May 2010, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (EDT), Earley & Associates will host a webinar entitled “Cross-Channel Brand Management”. The webinar will examine the role of digital asset management and marketing asset management software in the creation of a centralised resource for organisational brand management and marcomm operations.…
Continue reading »This video produced by the US Library Of Congress, outlines why it is important for all organisations to preserve digital assets and how technological progress is also a factor to consider in any preservation strategy (running time 3 mins 10 secs).
“Traditional information sources such as books, photos and sculptures …
Continue reading »In this article, Philip Speigel takes a humorous look at the polarised roles of visionary DAM strategists and DAM metadata analysts, and explains how with good communication and a willingness to collaborate, both these ‘information superheroes’ can contribute to overall organisational success.
“Micro-boy wants to circle the wagons and fix …
Continue reading »Research consultancy Frost & Sullivan have released a report titled ‘World Digital Asset Management Market’ that provides a detailed analysis of the global market for digital asset management products and their associated technologies.
“This research analyses the global Digital Asset Management market. Digital Asset Management (DAM) is also known as …
Continue reading »In this article, Talib Morgan explains how digital asset management can benefit business and lists several key criteria for assessing whether or not your organisation needs a DAM system.
“DAMs are not new. They’ve been around for some years and were initially used by media companies who needed to manage …
Continue reading »Does the fast pace of our technological progress always equate to digital revolution? Or could it in fact lead to a digital dark age whereby more data is actually lost than is liberated? In this article, Chris Carr examines how data is highly vulnerable to rapid format succession and how …
Continue reading »In this article, Peter Ostrow and Omer Minkara from the Aberdeen Group, discuss how specialist digital asset management applications, which are focused on marketing management tasks, can be used to improve brand consistency and provide better return-on-investment for your marketing expenditure. (Editor’s note: These systems are also known as Brand …
Continue reading »In a recent statement to Arab newspaper, ‘The National’, Carlo Emanuele Bona, President of the Italian digital publishing consultancy Promedia, has revealed his own vision for the future of book publishing in the Middle East, namely digital asset management.
“In our opinion, every publisher should have a digital asset management …
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