Update: As of today (26th March) Razuna report that data recovery has been 100% successful.
Open Source DAM Vendor, Razuna, announced last week that they had sustained a 39TB data loss due to failure of multiple RAID drives in their hosting environment. Data recovery experts were required to retrieve …
Continue reading »An article by Nish Patel, CEO of ConceptShare, discusses what his firm calls Creative Production Supply Chains. It was published last month and has been on my list of items to cover for DAM News for a while now. Part of the reason for the delay has been …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Brandworkz, have announced a partnership with UK Business Intelligence (BI) consulting operation, Differentia. Brandworkz’ DAM solution will capture raw auditing data which users can then audit using one of Differentia’s BI dashboards (which are developed using tools from a vendor called …
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With a clear understanding in the importance of managing a company’s digital assets, Graham has been able to efficiently increase brand awareness throughout the academic sector.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
I first became involved with digital asset management …
Continue reading »Last week in Why Your DAM Needs Purpose And The Reason It Still Lacks It Now, I wrote about how the metadata schema employed in many DAM implementations is not always as relevant as it should be (from the perspective of DAM users). I used David Diamond’s CMSWire article…
Continue reading »Earlier this week, CMSWire published an article by David Diamond, author of The DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director at Picturepark, called: Why Images Don’t Belong in Your DAM. The title isn’t really about not storing images in DAM or anywhere else, it’s a wider philosophical discussion about …
Continue reading »One of our featured SaaS DAM vendors, Amsterdam based, Bynder, announced the release of version 4.0 of Enterprise Cloud Brand Portal 4.0. The update is focussed on MRM (Marketing Resource Management) modules and include:
The workflow management appears to be …
Continue reading »Writing on his own AssertTrue blog, Kas Thomas (who I believe was once employed by ECM analysts, Real Story Group) has a critique of the monopolistic tendencies of Amazon in his article: Amazon: The Everything Company. The summary of the article is that Amazon give the impression of being …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, North Plains, have announced an updated version 2.7 of the On Brand DAM system (which they now own as part of their acquisition of UK vendor, Vyre in 2012). They have a novel take on side-stepping the ‘boss quote’ by using some …
Continue reading »This is the follow-up to the first part of this article published a couple of weeks ago. In that item, I discussed two issues:
One of the points covered in some depth was the likely existence of …
Continue reading »For a number of months, I have been working with a client on assessing risks to their digital assets stored inside and outside their DAM system. The motivation for their interest was sparked due to some naive data management policies where sensitive asset files were held without any security or …
Continue reading »Reviewing existing Digital Asset Management provisions seems to be a common consulting request for my firm these days and is no doubt due to a maturing wider DAM market. Between a third and half of the prospective users of a new DAM system who contact us already seem to have …
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