NetXposure delivers software solutions that help organizations improve productivity and advance their business goals by reducing the time and cost of content production, maximizing ROI from media assets, and streamlining the workflows of managing large libraries of digital files. An industry pioneer in developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), and the …
Continue reading »Private equity investment group, North Bridge Venture Partners, has released the results of its annual Future Of Open Source survey in conjunction with 20 collaborators. Unlike previous years, the vendor/non-vendor split was 40/60 in favour of the latter. The results indicate that within the next five years, it …
Continue reading »The Department of State 2011 SharePoint Conference: “Share the Power!” starts on Monday (16th May) in Washington DC (USA). The conference has 30 speakers and the keynote from Dux Raymond will cover:
As most readers will be aware, last week Amazon’s AWS Cloud service had a major outage that affected a number of popular websites and services. There has been no shortage of comment from the mainstream media, websites and blogs. A number of DAM vendors (both pure play Cloud offerings and …
Continue reading »It seems that metadata remains a hot topic in DAM at the moment. DAM consultants, Daydream have released an updated white paper entitled: “Metadata Management Strategies for Marketing Based Digital Asset Management”.
The key points are:
Writing on the Archive Media Partners blog, Kim Schroeder discusses the issues that can result from trying to use automated indexing or low-quality human resources who lack an understanding of the nuances of the subject matter.
She points out that the cost savings that these alternatives claim to offer …
Continue reading »Revenue generation often comes up in the list of reasons for implementing Digital Asset Management strategies, but unless they have prior media business experience, most organisations are unsure how to go about achieving this objective and their ROI estimates can suffer as a result.
This onlinevideo.net article and accompanying video …
Continue reading »At the end of January, we featured a blog article by Henrik De Gyor where he discussed some metrics for measuring the success of your DAM system and the ROI obtained. One of our featured DAM Vendors, Widen published an article earlier this month about getting users to make …
Continue reading »Writing on the Archive Media Partners blog, Margie Friant critiques those DAM vendors who claim that their software can replace manual tagging carried out by human indexers:
“Isn’t it about time that we, as a profession, sell our abilities as well as the DAM system vendors sell their …
Continue reading »Content migration guru, David Hobbs has written an article weighing the pros and cons of automated migration (i.e. writing scripts or using tools to transfer content/data from one system to another). He discusses 5 factors to help evaluate whether automation is appropriate or not, including:
As 2011 approaches, in this special feature, we make some predictions about trends and forthcoming developments in the DAM market for the forthcoming year. In the first of two articles, we look at DAM industry predictions, the second will examine technology trends.
The …
Continue reading »Below are the special feature articles we have published in DAM News.
Forrester 2024 DAM Report – Not Waving but Drowing
DAM consultant Ralph Windsor examines the recent Forrester DAM Wave report, and questions the criteria for inclusion, the validity of a ‘pay-to-play’ model, and whether or not …
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