Costing And Planning DAM Projects
DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper aimed at project managers which summarises the key costs and deliverables for DAM projects: The report is entitled: […]
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Using DAM Workflow To Protect Brands And Improve Cataloguing Quality
One of our featured DAM Vendors, Vyre, have released a blog post that discusses workflow and how it can be used to enhance metadata quality and better protect an organisation’s brand:
“The use of Workflow does not need to be limited to managing the production/creation (agency artwork) or …
Continue reading »Metadata To Be “Taken Seriously” At IBC – But Still No Universal Standard For The Whole Video Content Lifecycle
Philip Hunter, writing for Broadcast Engineering yesterday, discusses how metadata is likely to be more significant at the forthcoming IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in the Netherlands in September. He notes that the majority of metadata activity is associated with Media Asset Management (or Video DAM as some of our readers …
Continue reading »Autonomy Takeover: Implications For The ECM/DAM Market
As was widely reported yesterday, HP simultaneously exited the PC hardware market and made a bid to purchase ECM vendor, Autonomy. Why are HP taking this step and what does it mean for DAM and the wider ECM market?
Setting aside personal factors involving HP’s CEO, Leo Apotheker and …
Continue reading »The Paradox of Choice in DAM, ECM, MAM and CMS: Vendor Fatigue Or Unrealistic User Expectations?
In this article by one of our featured DAM Vendors, WAVE Corporation, the theory outlined by psychologist Barry Schwartz in his video ‘ The Paradox of Choice’ is applied to the predicament that many consumers seeking software to manage digital information face, namely that too much choice makes …
Continue reading »5 ECM ROI Myths
Brian Lincoln of DocuShare, writing on the Digital Landfill blog discusses 5 myths about the ROI that can be obtained from implementation of ECM systems. He answers each of them with very short single paragraph case study to illustrate how each of the points is false:
- Removing paper from business
Createaspehere NYC: Open Source DAM Session: 23rd September, 2011
DAM events organiser, Createasphere have included a special session on open source DAM as part of their September New York Conference. Although just one hour long and dwarfed by the number of proprietary vendor sponsored slots, it sounds of interest to anyone considering Open Source DAM options. The topics covered …
Continue reading »Cloud Brokerage – A Solid Foundation For Digital Asset Management Resourcing Or Just Blue Sky Thinking?
I was interested to read Stacey Higginbottom’s article yesterday regarding her thoughts on the Forrester report ‘Cloud Broker – A New Business Model Paradigm’. Like Higginbottom, I am intrigued by the proposition that cloud providers might become one-stop shops for all computer resources, including short term human resourcing. …
Continue reading »Photo Stats Gets Graphic With EXIF
iPhone software vendor, Dear Future Astronaut AB, have recently released Photo Stats – an app that converts EXIF data from photos taken and stored on users’ iPhones. Although gimmicky, this creative use of EXIF data may perhaps have some practical, real-world uses for digital asset management or similar systems, such …
Continue reading »Taxonomy – Is It Rocket Science?
In this interview, Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., explains how taxonomy is crucial for successful digital asset management and describes the exciting range of subject matter she encounters working as a metadata consultant for NASA.
“Taxonomy is fundamental to each stage of Digital …
Continue reading »Coping With Media Management Overload
In this article Jeremy Sohn explains the key challenges facing marketers in today’s media rich world and explores some solutions to media management overload.
“With increased demand for high-quality content experiences, communication between companies and their customers has shifted. This shift has created both challenges and opportunities for today’s marketers …
Continue reading »Will Adobe Provide The Edge For DAM?
Following Adobe’s recent preview launch of Adobe Edge, their new HTML5 authoring tool, there has been much speculation as to whether this product release spells the end for Adobe Flash as an interface technology. The question for DAM vendors and their users, however, is whether this latest trend is …
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