Back in November, we announced that we were reviving the DAM Salary Survey with the (gratefully received and much appreciated) assistance of Elizabeth Keathley and Deb Fanslow.
“All responses are anonymous and you are not asked for your name, nor email address etc. There are 35 questions, …
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Numerous DAM vendors have now implemented one or more of the commodity AI image recognition tools available. The marketing messages broadcast by most of them (‘never manually tag images again’ etc) are all equally lacking in both imagination and …
Continue reading »This article was written by DAM News editor, Ralph Windsor and is the second of a two part series.
In the first part of this article, I examined what blockchains are (including associated technologies like smart contracts), why they matter for Content Digital Asset Management and how they …
Continue reading »Spencer Harris, who a number of DAM News readers will know from his participation in various DAM-related LinkedIn groups and his contribution to the excellent New Jersey DAM meetup group webinars about metadata automation last year has written an initial review of Bynder’s recently released Orbit DAM system. The …
Continue reading »Last week, DAM vendor, Bynder announced the release of a ‘creative files management’ tool called Orbit. There is a waiting list to get an account, so I will have to defer any assessment of its capabilities for a while. I have not yet encountered anyone who has been …
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In the last year, there have been subtle but potentially significant changes to the positioning of some participants in the DAM market. A number of those on the sell-side, especially those in the enterprise segment have …
Continue reading »A couple of weeks ago, Northplains released a new DAM platform called NEXT (not to be confused with similarly named competitor, NetX). This replaces their Telescope and OnBrand products, the former their original platform first developed 20 or more years ago and the latter dating from their acquisition of …
Continue reading »This feature article has been contributed by Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News and is the first article in a series of items with the title Finding Signs Of Life In DAM.
In the first part of this series, I attempted to diagnose the reason why …
Continue reading »This feature article has been contributed by Ralph Windsor, editor of DAM News.
Recently, among some who have been involved in the DAM industry for a long period of time, there has been what can only be termed despair at the lack of progress the market has made …
Continue reading »Tim Strehle of Digital Collections and Margaret Warren of ImageSnippets have contributed an article with the title: Improving DAM Interoperability In 2017 which is part of our Improving DAM In 2017 series:
“DAM products have improved a lot in the last few years: They are now cloud-enabled and …
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Some of the best advice you’ll hear in the digital asset management space comes from Melissa Pauna. She has learned that derailments should not make one lose sight of the objectives, remaining tenacious and focusing on the big picture can lead to success in less than ideal DAM situations.
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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…
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