Category: Opinion

The ‘Uptime’ section of Arstechnica.com features an article that reports from OmniTI Surge Conference (held last week) where some of the greatest IT failures were discussed.  The keynote features Ben Fried, CIO of Google who describes a previous position he held at Morgan Stanley where a critical application failed, costing …

Chris Riley, writing on the AIIM blog discusses and age-old debate: end users vs IT departments.  He contends that many debates about certain technologies are fundamentally about the needs of end users vs the intransigence of IT departments:

“What End-Users want is to solve a problem, or increase efficiency …

Box.net recently blogged that they are now supporting video uploads with what appears to be automated transcoding also to generate proxies that can be viewed via a browser.  That announcement in itself is nothing special, however, I believe it  indicates evidence of a trend towards the commoditisation of DAM technologies …

As was widely reported yesterday, HP simultaneously exited the PC hardware market and made a bid to purchase ECM vendor, Autonomy. Why are HP taking this step and what does it mean for DAM and the wider ECM market?

Setting aside personal factors involving HP’s CEO, Leo Apotheker and …

In this article by one of our featured DAM Vendors, WAVE Corporation, the theory outlined by psychologist Barry Schwartz in his video ‘ The Paradox of Choice’ is applied to the predicament that many consumers seeking software to manage digital information face, namely that too much choice makes …

I was interested to read Stacey Higginbottom’s article yesterday regarding her thoughts on the Forrester report ‘Cloud Broker – A New Business Model Paradigm’.  Like Higginbottom, I am intrigued by the proposition that cloud providers might become one-stop shops for all computer resources, including short term human resourcing.  …

Following Adobe’s recent preview launch of Adobe Edge, their new HTML5 authoring tool, there has been much speculation as to whether this product release spells the end for Adobe Flash as an interface technology.  The question for DAM vendors and their users, however, is whether this latest trend is …

In this O’Reilly blog article, Alex Bowyer argues that “files need to die” because they are an anachronistic way of organising content that has no relationship with how human beings operate in the real world:

“The file folder metaphor makes no sense in today’s world. Gone are the smoky …

A somewhat contentious proposition by Gartner, but I guess it’s 5 years away and by the time we get to 2016, few people may remember their prediction anyway.  If they are true, I think this line might have more to do with the iPad’s success than its unique features as …

Tim Siglin at Streamingmedia.com has written a thorough review of Adobe’s Flash to HTML5 conversion package ‘Wallaby’ currently in beta.

“Last week, the preview version of Wallaby was posted on Adobe Labs, along with the disclaimer that is indeed a technology preview (meaning it’s not very stable or well-documented) and …

Somewhat off-topic for DAM, but based on our predictions for the DAM Industry in 2011, perhaps not.  This article in foreignpolicy.com discusses how entrepreneurs from developing nations such as China and India are increasingly taking on their US counterparts and may pose a considerable business threat in the non-too …

A poll by CMSWire: “Are You Currently Using a Digital Asset Management (DAM) System?” reveals that 49.6% of those who responded are still using shared file servers for managing their digital assets.  Departmental and Enterprise DAMs accounted for just 24.81% (5.01% and 19.8% respectively).

The numbers are all the …