China – A Major Untapped Opportunity For DAM?
Yaochong Chen who is currently a student on the DAM post-graduate (MA) course at King’s College in London has written an article about the lack […]
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Does The Beginning Of Business Object Management Signal The End Of DAM And ECM?
ECM and DAM commentator, Magan Arthur has recently written an article which he has titled: The End of Digital Content Management and the Need for Business Object Management. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it, however, I do concur with a great deal of what he says. It …
Continue reading »DAM Industry Supply Chain Consortium Launched
Today, we are launching an industry consortium to research and discuss the role of Digital Asset Supply Chains with a view to deriving both some standards and technology that can be applied to make the theories explored become a reality. Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects have become increasingly prevalent …
Continue reading »De-Constructing And Re-Architecting The DAM Software Industry: Devising A More Sustainable And Innovative Approach
Earlier this month, I wrote an article describing how I believe the DAM software business is sleepwalking into a subservient integrator/channel partner model which will have undesirable consequences for innovation (and therefore the sustainability) of this technology sector. At the end of that piece, I said I would write a …
Continue reading »Blockchain Adoption – Overcoming Immutable Caution
Against the backdrop of hype, promise and innovation, real-world adoption of blockchain technology has been markedly slow. While many businesses and organisations have shown a willingness to learn more about distributed ledger technology (DLT), the overwhelming array of available options (many of which appear to offer the same thing), has …
Continue reading »DAM Apocalypse – Brandfolder Integration Swells The Horde
A genre that’s become as tenacious as its undead agitators, the zombie movie has been with us for over half a century now. In comparison, innovation within the DAM sector appears to have already reached the rigor mortis stage and the whiff of decomposing imagination is beginning to wrinkle the …
Continue reading »File-Sharing Versus DAM: A Narrowing Of Widen’s Vision?
Nora Gehin, from Digital Asset Management vendor Widen has recently published an article pitting file-sharing platforms such as Dropbox and Google Drive against dedicated DAM systems. It’s an argument that – aside from being overcooked – consistently manages to over-simplify the comparison and fails to identify the core underlying differences …
Continue reading »Bytom Blockchain Tech: Bridging The Atomic And Byte Worlds
Crypto news website CryptoSlate have recently published an article ‘Introduction to Bytom (BTM) – A Digital Asset Layer Protocol’. Bytom’s mission statement, outlined in their whitepaper, is “to bridge the atomic world and the byte world, to build a decentralized network where various byte assets and atomic …
Continue reading »The Implications Of DAM Software’s Gradual Transition Into A Channel Partner/Integrator Business Model
I have written a feature article for DAM News about the risks (as I see them) to the financial stability and long-term survival of the DAM software market based on a number of trends I have seen gradually emerging largely as a result of the use of cloud technology. I …
Continue reading »Aprimo Presents New Tools For Content Marketing, Creatives And DAM
Marketing and asset management outfit Aprimo have recently announced a couple of innovations for content marketers and creatives: a rather unimaginatively named ideation tool called ‘Idea Lab’, and the Article Editor, which ‘enables content marketers to support text-based content along with rich media content in one single, easy-to-use interface’.
Aprimo’s …
Continue reading »IPV Announces Launch Of Curator 2.0
Media solutions outfit IPV has just announced the release of a new version of its asset management system. Presented as an all-in-one media asset management suite, Curator 2.0 is due to be showcased at the 2018 NAB show in Las Vegas.
I’m not overly keen on name-dropping as it often …
Continue reading »Widen Close SmartImage: More Proof That The Current DAM Software Market Does Not Scale
Recently, DAM vendor, Widen announced they were shuttering their DAM Lite product, SmartImage:
“We are grateful for all the support we’ve received from our Smartimage customers. However, Smartimage will be ending May 25, 2018. This is a strategic decision Widen (Smartimage parent company) has made to ensure we …
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