Category: Opinion

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 …

Continuing our series on Improving DAM In 2017, I have written an article with a suggested architectural model which DAM solution developers may wish to consider. In The Digital Asset Transaction Management System – A Time Machine For Digital Assets, I outline a granular and modular API-First method …

Medhat Mahmoud  has contributed an article to our Improving DAM In 2017 series with the title Digital Assets From IoT To Blockchain Will Become Everyone’s Business.  The piece is about how the range of uses the digital assets is expanding exponentially:

“The fast pace of today’s evolving technologies, …

Martin Wilson from Asset Bank has contributed a feature article for our Improving DAM In 2017 article series with the title: Creating The Right Conditions For Innovation.  In the piece, he discusses some of the reasons why DAM innovation has stalled (or at least slowed significantly) and suggests various …

Late last year, I issued a request for contributions to a series Improving DAM In 2017 which was intended to solicit opinions from DAM users (and others involved with DAM) about how the field could be enhanced in a more positive fashion, rather than the commentary descending into just being …

Numerous DAM vendors have announced integration with various third party AI image recognition APIs recently, this was discussed (and predicted) on DAM News two years ago.  The key driver for the trend is that the available products have been packaged into commodity offerings which are generally cheap and fairly …

Last month, Lisa Grimm wrote an article for CMSWire: DAM Expands Its Reach in the Enterprise.  Amongst other topics, the item describes how DAM has incrementally moved into areas which used to be the preserve of ECM (Enterprise Content Management):

“Some argue DAM is creeping into the space …

This is the follow-up item to the first part of How Different Will DAM Be In 2030 which discusses Martin Wilson’s article for Information Age: 7 predictions for digital asset management in 2030.  In this piece, I will consider the remaining predictions 4-7.

4. Users will demand streamlined simplicity…

Martin Wilson, of Asset Bank has written an article for Information Age: 7 predictions for digital asset management in 2030.  The item has some similarities with Toby Martin’s piece which I discussed a couple of months ago (albeit the latter is about the medium term future of DAM …

I have read a few articles etc recently which advance the currently widely held opinion that DAM is exclusively a marketing concern.  This is not one I share (although I will acknowledge that, at present, marketing people are the largest single group of DAM users I come into contact with).  …

I have contributed an article to our features section: AI For DAM: Reliability, Liability And Risk Management in which I discuss the robustness of AI solutions and also consider the question of who has liability for them if/when they go wrong:

“As we have discussed on DAM News recently, …

Near where I live in North London, there are a large number of takeaway kebab shops.  One premises which comes to mind (with reference to the topic under discussion) has written on the sign above its door: “Probably the best kebab in the UK”.  Another competitor over the road has …