An accomplished PhD educated Digital Asset Manager working in the museum space, Shean has over a decade of experience with multiple enterprise DAM systems.
What companies/organizations have you worked for as a DAM professional? What was your role at each?
I have been in museum IT for more than a …
Continue reading »Two of our featured DAM vendors, SDL and North Plains, have announced a strategic partnership where SDL will resell North Plains various Digital Asset Management solutions along with their range of WCM and translation products. The ‘boss quote’ from SDL CEO, Mark Lancaster, has unfortunately let the side down …
Continue reading »DAM vendor, Extensis (one of the few who have yet to finalise a damvendors.com profile) have announced Flow, a mobile application that integrates with their Portfolio Server DAM system. Here is the ‘boss quote’ from Chad Slater, Director of Engineering at Extensis:
“Extensis worked in concert with our …
Continue reading »Many DAM vendors have recently been copying each other’s marketing strategies by promoting these ROI Infographics that claim to tell you exactly how much money a ‘typical’ DAM can save without any real basis in fact or plausibility. My co-contributor made the comparison with ‘zombie vendors’ a few months ago…
Continue reading »Desirae Odjick writing on the ConceptShare blog has made a comparison of Best of Breed and what she terms ‘All In One’ software. The former is an implementation strategy where multiple applications developed by different vendors are combined. The latter is an aggregated package, usually delivered through interdependent components and …
Continue reading »DAMMY award winner and author of the DAM Survival Guide, David Diamond, has written an article on his own DAM Survival blog with the arresting title: The DAM that can Cure Death. The summary of the piece is that David believes the DAM industry has attempted to abstract …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM Vendors, ADAM are hosting a webinar: The Role Of DAM In Customer Experience Management with two consultants from Cognizant and Accenture on 11 December 2013 at 7pm European time (1pm ET and 10am PT for US attendees). The speakers are Gordon Walsh (Accenture) and …
Continue reading »ConceptShare, who have been busy signing up swathes of DAM vendors to re-sell their approvals system by integrating it into their DAM solutions, have provided a case study written by their boss, Nish Patel, Improve Process and Performance with Creative Operations Metrics. Case studies can often be turgid …
Continue reading »This month, CMSWire have been running various articles on whether there is still a need for DAM. The subject title is no doubt deliberately provocative and intended to get participating authors to think about the DAM in a bit more detail and challenge a few of the common assumptions …
Continue reading »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 »ECM mega-vendor, OpenText have announced a partnership with ExactTarget (who are owned by SalesForce). The PR is typically sketchy, but the basics seems to be that it’s a way for ExactTarget to access repositories of digital assets and use them to deliver content to different segments. This quote seems to …
Continue reading »Anjali Yakkundi who is an analyst for Forrester has written an article for their blog: What’s Next For Digital Customer Experience Tools? She covers DAM along with data and content management tools:
“The technology to manage experiences is maturing, but many organizations continue to struggle. These data and content …
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