Category: Opinion

We briefly covered Ian Matzen’s article The Coming DAM Crisis on the DAM round-up earlier this week.  I thought Ian’s post was probably the most insightful thing I’ve read about DAM for some time and I was inspired to write some more about this subject.

For those who have …

In this opinion feature article, I have examined the state of the DAM market in 2018 (as well as the wider tech sector) and tried to extrapolate some possible trends and themes for 2019:

“In this article, I want to assess some underlying trends in the Digital Asset Management…

Dr. Simon Tanner, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage and DAM course leader at King’s College London, has recently published a keynote presentation for the ‘Museums and Digital Memory’ conference, organised by The British Museum.  His presentation aims to define the different ‘modes’ of value for digital resources within our …

Over the last year or so, I have been reading a number of articles about Content Services, a term allegedly coined by analysts Gartner (although I have my doubts as to its true provenance).  A few weeks ago, I discussed Magan Arthur’s article about Business Object Management where it was …

Yaochong Chen who is currently a student on the DAM post-graduate (MA) course at King’s College in London has written an article about the lack of DAM software platforms in China:

“Paradoxically, although many DAM Chinese scholars like me are passionate about bringing these amazing ideas into Chinese …

ECM and DAM commentator, Magan Arthur has recently written an article which he has titled: The End of Digital Content Management and the Need for Business Object Management.  I don’t necessarily agree with all of it, however, I do concur with a great deal of what he says.  It …

Earlier this month, I wrote an article describing how I believe the DAM software business is sleepwalking into a subservient integrator/channel partner model which will have undesirable consequences for innovation (and therefore the sustainability) of this technology sector.  At the end of that piece, I said I would write a …

I have written a feature article for DAM News about the risks (as I see them) to the financial stability and long-term survival of the DAM software market based on a number of trends I have seen gradually emerging largely as a result of the use of cloud technology.  I …

Last week, there was a post on one of the LinkedIn DAM groups by David Diamond, Reason enough to say that “digital asset management” has died for us? For anyone who does not have access to the group, this is the post:

“Major players in the Financial sector are …

I have written a feature article for DAM News with the title: Enterprise Discontent With Current DAM Solutions And The Impending Future Of Digital Asset Management.  The piece covers a number of concurrent developments in the enterprise segment of DAM (and quite possibly applies to smaller-scale implementations also).  This …

A few weeks ago, I wrote a feature article, Finding Signs Of Life In DAM about why some people are saying ‘DAM is dead’ and what could be done about it.  In the first piece, I attempted to diagnose the problem and came up with some possible lines of enquiry …

Earlier this month, there was a post on the Digital Asset Management LinkedIn group by Hector Medina, with the title Is DAM Dead?:

“I’ve been in DAM for more than 20 years, having worked for Canto, Celum and most recently, Picturepark. To be honest, I planned to …