Digital Asset Management Is Not Content Management
Last week, there was a post on one of the LinkedIn DAM groups by David Diamond, Reason enough to say that “digital asset management” has died […]
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Digital Asset News Launched
Today we are launching a new title: Digital Asset News, this covers the subject of digital assets, but in a wider sense of the term and follows on from feature articles I wrote at the start of 2016, the piece on digital asset value chains going back to …
Continue reading »Are Bynder Orbiting Or Departing From Planet DAM?
Last week, DAM vendor, Bynder announced the release of a ‘creative files management’ tool called Orbit. There is a waiting list to get an account, so I will have to defer any assessment of its capabilities for a while. I have not yet encountered anyone who has been …
Continue reading »Extensis Update Portfolio For 2017
DAM vendor, Extensis announced an update to their Portfolio DAM solution earlier this week. This is the press quote from Toby Martin, whose job title is ‘Vice President of Development and Strategy’ (which sounds like he has to deal with all the jobs at Extensis that no one …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Supply Chains And Seismic Changes In The Enterprise DAM Software Market
I have written a feature article for DAM News with the title: Enterprise Discontent With Current DAM Solutions And The Impending Future Of Digital Asset Management. The piece covers a number of concurrent developments in the enterprise segment of DAM (and quite possibly applies to smaller-scale implementations also). This …
Continue reading »Northplains NEXT – A Step Forward Or Too Little Too Late?
A couple of weeks ago, Northplains released a new DAM platform called NEXT (not to be confused with similarly named competitor, NetX). This replaces their Telescope and OnBrand products, the former their original platform first developed 20 or more years ago and the latter dating from their acquisition of …
Continue reading »Metadata, Findability And Their Relationship With DAM Adoption
Annella Mendoza has contributed a feature article to DAM News: Metadata And The Findability Of Assets. In the piece, she discusses how metadata is integral to the findability of digital assets and how this has a direct relationship on how likely (or not) a DAM solution is to be …
Continue reading »DAM Standards Site For API Documentation
As described in my recent feature article: Finding Signs Of Life In DAM: Interoperability 1.0 we are assembling a repository of DAM-related API documentation to be held at damstandards.org. The intention behind this is to build a library of DAM system APIs (and other related standards that may not …
Continue reading »Improving DAM User Adoption
Emily Quan, has written an article, How to Improve DAM User Adoption and Maximize ROI for the blog of consulting group, Optimity (who metadata expert, John Horodyski also works for). The item is concise, but it covers some useful points that are succinctly expressed, for example:
“Achieving high …
Continue reading »DAM Interoperability 1.0
Continuing our Finding Signs Of Life In DAM series, in this next piece, I have begun to consider DAM interoperability, which I contend is one of the factors why DAM has failed to gain traction in enterprises:
“Why is interoperability important to DAM progressing as an enterprise …
Continue reading »Good Questions To Ask DAM Vendors
Jens Lundgaard, who is the CEO of DAM vendor, Brandworkz has written an article on their blog called: Five good questions you must ask your DAM vendor before you buy. The piece considers the architectural aspect of DAM applications, such as scalability and integration (amongst other topics):…
Continue reading »Using Integrated Digital Asset Supply Chains To Derive Relevant Metadata For Digital Assets
A few weeks ago, I wrote a feature article, Finding Signs Of Life In DAM about why some people are saying ‘DAM is dead’ and what could be done about it. In the first piece, I attempted to diagnose the problem and came up with some possible lines of enquiry …
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