Category: Opinion

This Arstechnica article by Matthew Lasar highlights the fact that the original prototypical new media development tool developed by Apple, HyperCard is 25 years old today.  Below, Matthew describes his early experiences using it:

“I opened the app and read the instructions. HyperCard allowed you to create “stacks” of …

Irina Guseva, writing on econtentmag.com considers the ‘intersection between DAM and WCM’ in this article:

“It is important for organizations to start realizing that DAM really is more than just a storage of assets and that WCM’s primary function is not media and digital asset management. If your incumbent …

Anjali Yakkundi, writing a guest post for Stephen Powers’ Forrester blog discusses the increasing role of CXM in DAM:

“DAM is moving away from traditional ECM towards CXM. DAM has long been thought of as a niche component of ECM suites that supports heavy production-oriented needs. However, as DAM …

This Forbes article by Shomit Ghose discusses how ‘Big Data’ might become the only viable business model left for tech entrepreneurs as the commoditisation of software and hardware progresses.  Ghose uses physics analogies to explain his point and the conclusions are difficult to argue with:

“So if maximum entropy …

APIs seem to be the fashionable must-have accessory for many DAM systems currently (not before time many of their end users might be tempted to remark). This CMSWire.com article was written by Edward Smith, one of the better writers about Digital Asset Management in our view.  Edward assesses why APIs …

In this Onlinevideo.net interview, Lauri Kivinen of Finnish TV broadcaster, YLE is interviewed and comes down on the side of HTML5 for content delivery:

“Big content creators are already moving away from apps. Kivinen relates that The Financial Timeshas gone with an HTML5 format with no apps required for …

Danny Ayers writing on his personal blog discusses his take on Cloud with this article: “The Emperor’s New Client“.  In the article, Danny describes how he agrees with and likes many of the building blocks of the cloud such as the http protocol but dislikes the clients used …

Yesterday we analysed the prospects for the DAM industry in 2012.  Today we look more closely at our DAM technology predictions for 2012 and consider a number of themes as, such as:

• How the novelty factor of DAM systems is ending and end users are demanding more sophistication and power

In this the first of a two part piece, we have written an article where we outline our predictions for the Digital Asset Management industry in 2012.  The key themes to emerge from our discussion are the impact of the wider economic environment and the increased competition in in …

One of our featured DAM vendors, WAVE Corporation have written a blog post which definitely resonates with my own consulting experience when working with clients who are interested in implementing Digital Asset Management.  They discuss how when they get enquiries, sales prospects can tend to expand the scope of …

In “Despite its allure, digital asset management not always the right fit” Jonathan Gourlay writing on the Search Content Management section of TechTarget.com suggests that organisations may not necessarily require a DAM system if they have WCM (Web Content Management).  He refers to Forrester research and other consultants …

On Tuesday, Amazon, announced they were releasing a “Server Side Encryption” module for users of their S3 storage facility.  For less technical users, this means they created a method for software developers to encrypt or ‘scramble’ data when it gets stored on their Cloud servers so unauthorised users (aka ‘hackers’) …