DAM consultants, Daydream, have written a blog post where they consider the role of Digital Asset Management selection consultancies and offer some advice to purchasing managers. They consider 5 areas where vendor selection consultants can potentially arrive at decisions that are not necessarily to the benefit of their clients:
Eight seems to be a popular number with DAM consultants right now, one of our featured DAM vendors, Vyre have released a two-part article on “Eight Steps to a Successful DAM/MRM Project”:
“Any successful project must begin with finding a supplier and solution that can elegantly solve your problem. …
Continue reading »DAM consultants, Daydream, have released a whitepaper aimed at project managers which summarises the key costs and deliverables for DAM projects: The report is entitled: “The 8 Steps To DAM Success: A Manager’s Guide To Planning & Costing Digital Asset Management Projects”:
This techdirt.com by Jeroen van Rijn article discusses whether on-line digital content is worth preserving as an archival activity in its own right. As well as the question about the significance of maintaining content (much of which may not have any apparent current value) the privacy issue is also considered. …
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 …
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