Zombie DAM Vendors Lying In Packs
My co-contributor has dealt more than I have with the subject of DAM ROI illustrations that sections of the industry insist on pedalling to end-users. When […]
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Southpaw’s TACTIC To Be Distributed On Amazon Marketplace
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Southpaw Technology announced yesterday that they have made their TACTIC Open Source Digital Asset Management solution available via the Amazon AWS market place. This is the quote from Southpaw boss, Gary Mundell:
“TACTIC has always been available via browsers as an internally …
Continue reading »Enterprise Marketing Software Resources From ADAM
One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM, published a series of resources about enterprise marketing software earlier this month. They refer to them as ‘Propositions’ rather than whitepapers, but that is essentially what they are. These days, ADAM prefer to call themselves as an “Enterprise Marketing Software Developer” …
Continue reading »Picturepark Add “Ports” Features
Following last week’s discussion about more DAM vendors either bringing out ‘lite’ versions of their products or asset portal add-ons designed to provide some simpler methods to gain access to assets, yesterday, one our featured DAM vendors, Picturepark, announced a new feature called “Ports” to their DAM …
Continue reading »Widen Release SmartImage 2.0 – The Ongoing Segmentation Of DAM Solutions
One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, released SmartImage 2.0 earlier this week. This is a kind ‘DAM Lite’ which is aimed at users who need a less sophisticated solution than a full Digital Asset Management product with a learning curve that is not as steep. The main …
Continue reading »Using DAM To Distribute Digital Assets To Social Media Platforms
DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor, has written the second part of his feature article on Social Media and how it can integrate with DAM through the DAM Value Chain:
Ralph considers some of the main issues with the use of an organisation’s digital assets:
- Verifying asset suitability and
Aproove Collaboration & Proofing Webinar, Aug 14, 9am ET (2pm UK, 3pm Europe)
DAM integrator, IO Integration are hosting a webinar about ‘Aproove’ – an approvals and collaboration tool they resell (and presumably integrate with the other DAM solutions they offer). The webinar sounds like a general introduction:
“Ideal for agencies, brand managers, marketing departments, and printers as well as centralized service …
Continue reading »DAM Interoperability – The Answer To The Orphan Works Problem For Asset Intellectual Property Owners?
My co-contributor, Ralph Windsor, has written an article for CMSWire which they published yesterday: The Building Blocks Of Digital Asset Management Interoperability. He has a slightly unconventional take on the interoperability subject which those with an IT/systems perspective might not have considered (but which is no less valid for …
Continue reading »FocusOPEN 3.4.6 Released
Open source DAM vendor, FocusOPEN Software, have released version 3.4.6 of their Digital Asset Manager product. The new features are:
- Batch append or replace
- Text replace
- Advanced filtering
- Metadata export supports Unicode and UTF-8
- New import features
- Updated filtering
FocusOPEN target their product at sys admins and software …
Continue reading »DAM Hosting And Integration Decisions
On the ADAM blog, my co-contributor and fellow author of the DAM News whitepaper Digital Asset Management Hosting: Making The Right Decision For Your Organisation has written the “missing chapter” of our original report DAM Hosting & Enterprise Application Integration. The blog post includes integration topics which we …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Management – Finding The Right Fit (And The People To Run It For You Too)
Jeff Lawrence, of consultants, Celerity who we featured in June has written an article for CMSWire: Digital Asset Management: Finding the Right Fit for Your Company. The item is an introductory primer on the various factors you will need to think about, including:
- Establishing goals and objectives
- Buying custom
ROI: Making A Better Business Case To Demonstrate The Value Of DAM
Over the last few months we have been looking at the flawed nature of classic ROI calculations as applied to DAM and how these nearly always contain misconceptions embedded within the calculations which can invalidate the conclusions of any study. A few people have contacted me about these articles and …
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