Digital Asset Management Value Chain – Storage
Continuing our on-going series on the DAM Value Chain, next up it is the turn of storage and its position in the range of services […]
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The Industrialisation Of DAM
Remko Noteboom, CTO of one of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw Technology, has contributed a special feature article for DAM News: Configurable Workflow Systems. The item explores the opportunity in applying some techniques from large-scale manufacturing and industrialisation to the management of digital content, especially with reference to …
Continue reading »Developing Fault Lines In The Fragmenting World Of Digital Asset Management
Yesterday, CMSWire ran an article Five Reasons Why DAM is No Photoshop written by David Diamond, author of the The DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director of Picturepark and contributor to DAM News. David looks at why Photoshop has been more successful as a product than the entire DAM …
Continue reading »Lies, DAM Lies And ROI Statistics
Last month, I wrote an article for CMSWire: Real World Digital Asset Management ROI where I looked at some of the popular methods you see used for ‘proving’ ROI in a quantitative fashion. The summary was that when consultants, analysts and vendors offer hard ROI numbers to support a pre-implementation …
Continue reading »evolphin Update Workflow Automation Features
One of our featured DAM vendors, evolphin, announced an update to their product, Zoom. The new features are centred around workflow and automation in particular:
- “Auto task” feature (which sounds like what some might refer to as ‘triggers’ or ‘hooks’) where jobs like asset manipulation, email notifications can
Six Techniques To Stop Your Digital Images Becoming Orphan Works
Last week, we reported that the UK Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which contained a section permitting orphan works had been passed. This follows earlier legislation by the EU allowing government agencies to do the same. David Riecks has written an article: Six Ways to Keep your Digital …
Continue reading »Southpaw Upgrade Tactic To Version 4.0
One of our featured DAM vendors, Southpaw, who are better known by the name of their flagship system, TACTIC, have released version 4.0 of their open source DAM solution. The new features include:
- Updated Data Connection Technology
- New Plugin Architecture
- HTML5 Themes
This quote from CEO, Gary …
Continue reading »DAM News Special Feature: Becoming A DAM Superhero
David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, Marketing Director at Picturepark and previous contributor to DAM News has written a special feature for us once more with the title: Become A DAM Superhero. The article discusses how often a single individual within an organisation is required to …
Continue reading »ADAM Release ADAM 5
One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, have released version 5 of their core DAM offering. As seems to be a common theme with their press, finding out what is new is a linguistic challenge in itself, but this seems to be the summary:
- Ability to sync distributed
Brandworkz Add ‘Web-To-Digital’ and ‘Web-To-Mobile’ Features
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Brandworkz, have added two features they call “Web-To-Digital” and “Web-To-Mobile”. They appear to be automated derivative (or surrogate) asset generation capabilities. This from the digital one:
“Marketers responsible for digital marketing specifically have access to the web-to-digital feature which generates digital …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management Value Chains – Collaboration
After a brief pause, we are resuming our ongoing analysis of DAM Value chains. For those who are new to this subject, the introductory article explains more about what it is. Next up on the list of subjects, is Collaboration.
What Is Meant By Collaboration?
In DAM terms, …
Continue reading »‘Instagram Act’ Sees Law Change For Orphaned Works In UK
Despite several previous attempts to protect orphaned works from use without their owner’s permission, new legislation has recently been passed in UK parliament that will enable organisations to use photographic or any other creative works for commercial or non-commercial purposes and without their owners’ permission as long as a “diligent …
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