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.
If All Roads Lead to Rome, The Path to Your DAM Shouldn’t Be a Diversion
CI HUB founder and CEO Andreas Michalski explores the challenges behind maintaining a ‘single source of truth’ within DAM, and how …
Continue reading »The Emerging Media Conference kicks off on 24th January (2011) in San Francisco. The event will cover a variety of new media areas of interest, including:
Speakers include Jesse Schell (Carnegie Mellon University), …
Continue reading »CMSReport.com have an article by Tim Ward which compares “Enterprise” with “Open Source” (the article does rely on the reader accepting that the two are mutually exclusive concepts). Some of the arguments against open source seem a little dated (for example, I don’t recall needing to update most open source …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, MailPrint, features a guest article by Erin Haselkorn from Experian QAS on their blog who discusses how inadequate controls on your data entry and acquisition processes can have a devastating impact on the ROI obtained from marketing campaigns as well as sales …
Continue reading »Rhonda Basler, of Mail Print, one of our featured DAM Vendors, have posted a blog entry about fears many larger organisations have about ceding control over sales and marketing to colleagues in the field and what technology options are available now to assuage those concerns. The fears discussed …
Continue reading »Steve Radick, writing on the Enterprise 2.0 blog asks a valid question about how frequently developers actually use software they have built for users:
“Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone …
Continue reading »DAM and print on demand vendors, MailPrint, who are in our featured DAM vendors directory, have recently drawn attention to some research carried out by Aberdeen Group about Print On Demand:
“Among their findings was a correlation between companies that use a Print On-Demand solution and a dramatic …
Continue reading »Taxonomy Bootcamp on 15-16th November 2010 in Washington DC promises a series of in-depth sessions about how to design and use taxonomies effectively. The topics covered include:
Vendor WebDAM have written a blog post that discusses the relative merits of building vs buying a DAM solution. As one might imagine, they tend toward the “buy” side of the argument, however, the points proposed are succinctly put and a fair evaluations of the arguments for building an in-house …
Continue reading »Collexis, a semantic technology and knowledge discovery software vendor has been acquired by STM publisher, Elsevier. The combination is an an obvious fit, Elsevier publish over two thousand specialist science journals and Collexis’s technology has been widely adopted by the academic market:
“Elsevier’s research performance, planning and funding …
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