Earlier this week, one of our featured DAM Vendors, NetXposure upgraded their flagship NetX DAM software to version 7. The new features include:
Ian Matzen, writing on his Tame Your Assets blog. has written an introductory article to Facet Analysis, which is the process of de-constructing metadata subject domains into discrete elements (facets) so they can be re-assembled in a modular fashion to provide faceted search features for DAM systems and other …
Continue reading »David Diamond has written an article for CMSWire this week about digital assets getting lost in DAM system. The basis of the article is a surprisingly common scenario where users upload digital assets and then either they or their colleagues can never find them again. David cites five reasons …
Continue reading »If you have been given the task of getting a Digital Asset Management (DAM) initiative off the ground in your organisation, you will know there is a lot to consider.
From selecting vendors, through to metadata, planning projects and making business critical choices about hosting of the DAM solution, there …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, Asset Bank (who are owned by UK firm, Bright Interactive) have announced some new features for their DAM system in their October release:
When he is not practising his usual hobby of trashing DAM vendors (deservedly in some cases, it should be said) my co-contributor has also been less than complimentary about the DAM Award business too. Although we definitely don’t agree on everything, some of the selections of the DAMMY award …
Continue reading »David Diamond, Marketing Director for Picturepark and author of the DAM Survival Guide has written an article for CMSWire: It’s Time to Kill the Competition. The basis of the article is what we have discussed on DAM News quite a lot, that vendors spend too much time copying each …
Continue reading »This special feature has been written by DAM News contributing editor, Ralph Windsor. See also Social Media Part 2 for the second part of this article.
Introduction
In our discussion of the DAM Value Chain, one of the topics mentioned as being of significance was Social Media. This is …
Loraine Lawson, on IT Business Edge, wrote an article last month: Five Reasons Why Cloud Integration Is So Gosh-Darn Hard. She references another article: The Cloud Experience Drives New Data Management Directions by Julie Hunt. Julie’s article discusses the various reasons why users of Cloud or SaaS products …
Continue reading »This glossary was originally written by DAM consultants, Daydream and was donated to DAM News in February 2013. It covers common terminology used in the field of Digital Asset Management and is the copyright of Digital Asset Management News. You may link to it, but you are not permitted to …
Continue reading »This is an article in our series of ongoing discussion of Digital Asset Management Value Chains.
Search is another functional area within DAM which is growing in sophistication. In recent years, attention has focussed on simplifying search capabilities and making them easier for new or casual users. This has …
Continue reading »Introduction
This article was written by both Ralph Windsor and Naresh Sarwan of DAM News.
In 2011 and 2012, we assessed the prospects for the DAM sector with reference to the technology and business aspects of the industry. This year, we have elected to handle things slightly differently.
DAM gives …
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