The Opportunities And Risks Of Creative Production Supply Chains
An article by Nish Patel, CEO of ConceptShare, discusses what his firm calls Creative Production Supply Chains. It was published last month and has been on my […]
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New DAM Book – Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos
Elizabeth Keathley, of Atlanta Metadata and also DAM Foundation, has written a new DAM book: Digital Asset Management: Content Architectures, Project Management, and Creating Order out of Media Chaos. The title covers a wide range of subjects associated with setting up DAM initiatives, including:
- Differences between DAM,
Brandworkz Partners With Differentia Consulting To Provide Advanced DAM User Behaviour Analytics
One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
Continue reading »DAM Guru Program Update
The DAM Guru Program established by vendor, Picturepark, is celebrating its first anniversary this week. Now with 400 members (including myself) it does appear to be gaining some industry-wide support, in no small part due to the fact that the sponsors have been assiduously careful to not use …
Continue reading »Widen Release Smartimage 3.5
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen, have released version 3.5 of their “DAM Lite” platform, Smartimage. The major new features include:
- REST API for developers to access Smartimage capabilities
- Batch apply metadata
- Tag based searching and sorting
- Create “sections” upon upload*
- Large previews for admin users
The Politics Of DAM Metadata Integration
During the last week, we have been discussing metadata and DAM integration on our DAM News LinkedIn group. That has prompted me to consider this subject in more detail via a DAM News feature article: Digital Asset Management And The Politics Of Metadata Integration. The best practice recommendations …
Continue reading »Why Your DAM Needs Purpose And The Reason It Still Lacks It Now
Earlier this week, CMSWire published an article by David Diamond, author of The DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director at Picturepark, called: Why Images Don’t Belong in Your DAM. The title isn’t really about not storing images in DAM or anywhere else, it’s a wider philosophical discussion about …
Continue reading »Bynder Release Enterprise Cloud Brand Portal 4.0
One of our featured SaaS DAM vendors, Amsterdam based, Bynder, announced the release of version 4.0 of Enterprise Cloud Brand Portal 4.0. The update is focussed on MRM (Marketing Resource Management) modules and include:
- Workflow Management
- Publishing on Demand
- Brand Identity Guidelines
The workflow management appears to be …
Continue reading »Picturepark Upgrade To Version 8.6 With NoSQL Search Support
One of our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, have released version 8.6 of their DAM system. The key upgrade is the use of NoSQL to augment their indexing and searching features. They have also included these enhancements:
- Video cue points and bookmarks to allow users to access specific sections
Reviewing Existing DAM Solutions: Part 3
In the previous two parts to this article, I examined these topics:
- Identifying sources of existing assets
- Lessons that could be learned from how things were done before (and why)
- Legacy systems
- User feedback and behavioural data
In this final item, I will discuss the issues you need to …
Continue reading »21st Century Share-Cropping – Cloud Software And The New Feudal Landlords That DAM Vendors Will Pay Rent To
Writing on his own AssertTrue blog, Kas Thomas (who I believe was once employed by ECM analysts, Real Story Group) has a critique of the monopolistic tendencies of Amazon in his article: Amazon: The Everything Company. The summary of the article is that Amazon give the impression of being …
Continue reading »North Plains Update On Brand To Version 2.7
One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced an updated version 2.7 of the On Brand DAM system (which they now own as part of their acquisition of UK vendor, Vyre in 2012). They have a novel take on side-stepping the ‘boss quote’ by using some …
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