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 …
Continue reading »This feature article was provided by Ralph Windsor, DAM News editor and is part of our Improving DAM In 2017 series.
This article is a narrative specification for a feature that allows each interaction with a digital asset to be dissected and rolled backwards to any point in …
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »Today we have released a DAM News premium report package, Develop Your Own In-House DAM Vendor Selection Expertise, which is part of a range of DAM educational and consulting materials we will be issuing in 2017:
“The first programme in the series is concerned with the DAM solution …
Continue reading »DAM integration and application architectures seems to have been getting more attention recently from vendors, both in terms of direct connections to specific non-DAM platforms, but also API modifications and changes to the underlying architecture of DAM solutions.
First up is this blog post from Asset Bank. They sent …
Continue reading »Earlier this month, CMSWire ran an item by Dom Nicastro which was a write up of a presentation given by Meghan Walsh. The presentation has some very insightful points, for example:
“Walsh said she had to determine if managing Hilton’s digital assets was the same act as managing …
Continue reading »Writing on LinkedIn, Mike Doane has published an article with the title Can taxonomy survive the Trough of Disillusionment? In the item, he discusses the recent featuring of Enterprise Taxonomy and Ontology Management on the Gartner 2016 Hype Cycle. Mike speculates whether taxonomy can survive its inclusion in the …
Continue reading »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…
Continue reading »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 …
Continue reading »Over the last few years, while working with enterprise clients, a common theme has been emerging in relation to their corporate taxonomies and the governance strategies applied to them (or lack thereof in both cases, as I will explain). The catalyst for this has often been integration between their DAM …
Continue reading »This post by Ralph Windsor originally appeared on the Daydream website in March 2010.
Last month, an article on CMSWatch.com discussed the difficulty of assessing how a DAM system will perform on a typical corporate laptop as compared with what the vendor uses to demonstrate their product at a
This post by Ralph Windsor originally appeared on the Daydream website in July 2009.
A number of open source DAM solutions are now being offered across all platforms now by a variety of vendors and in general this is a positive development.
Several commentators, however, have raised concerns about
