As reported on CMSWire earlier this week, stock media library, PhotoShelter have recently launched Libris, a SaaS DAM solution. This follows similar moves from other larger stock media libraries such as Shutterstock and then Adobe moving into stock media (going in the other direction). PhotoShelter appear to have …
Continue reading »In part one of this two part series, I discussed how the level of innovation in the Digital Asset Management industry has reached a plateau recently which the evidence suggests it cannot now advance beyond. I made reference to Jeff Lawrence’s CMSWire article as it contained an aggregated selection of …
Continue reading »This feature article by DAM News editor, Ralph Windsor first appeared on DAM Coalition in July 2013.
Scaling Enterprise Digital Asset Management Implementations
In this article, I am going to analyse the various pressures on DAM implementations that can create a need for scalable systems and attempt to offer …
Continue reading »According to VentureBeat yesterday, Adobe have acquired stock photo library, Fotolia for US $800m. They cite the following statement from the official Adobe announcement:
“Adobe today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for stock content. Fotolia will be …
Continue reading »This special feature was written by DAM News Editor, Ralph Windsor
The topic of consolidating DAM solutions seems to come up a lot in Digital Asset Management implementations currently, usually when end users become aware that their use of DAM (both prospective and current) is wider than they initially thought. …
Continue reading »Open source DAM vendor, Southpaw Technology, who develop the TACTIC DAM platform, have announced two additional products: Media Library and Brand Manager, to compliment the three others they announced in August. Up until now, TACTIC has been a production-oriented DAM platform which might typically be used to automate …
Continue reading »UK DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have updated version 6.2.1 of their self-named brand-oriented DAM software solution. The key new features are:
The updates appear to be mostly UI-related enhancements, but with a focus on asset presentation. The general …
Continue reading »There have been a few more articles on DAM in CMSWire over the last week or two. One which is short, but makes a very good point is this by Irina Guseva: Improve DAM Creative Workflows First, CXM Will Follow. The theme of the item is that CXM depends …
Continue reading »This is the next in our series of articles on managing metadata cataloguing operations.
In part five, the subject was using outsourcing to assist with metadata cataloguing projects. In the final item in relation to human-based methods for efficiently organising metadata operations, I will consider outsourcing. This has …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and marketing director of Picturepark, has contributed an article for CMSWire: Reinventing Digital Asset Management. He covers a number of the themes which we have discussed on DAM News for the past few years (and David is gracious enough to …
Continue reading »This article is fifth of a series about establishing efficient metadata cataloguing operations.
In part four, the subject was batch cataloguing and using asset supply chain partners to assist with cataloguing. In this item, I will consider outsourcing and then a follow-up article will discuss crowdsourcing.
Introduction
Using supply …
In the first part of this article series, I looked at why efficient metadata operations management processes are essential. In the second I outlined some broad methods to segment asset catalogues to make it easier to adapt the cataloguing strategy in a way that is more streamlined and commensurate …
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