Over the last few months, I have been involved with an increasing number of DAM integration projects where interoperability with some other third party system has […]
Continue reading »Recently, I have had cause to go through some prospective DAM solutions that clients have expressed an interest in and do some preliminary exercises with a view to shortlisting a few. One of the requirements fairly high up on the list was security of their assets. The client in question …
Continue reading »UK-based DAM vendor, Brandworkz, have announced version 7.1 of their brand-focussed Digital Asset Management solution of the same name. Overall, it’s about scalability and maintenance enhancements that many end-users will not be particularly conscious of, but there are a few points of interest nonetheless. First, let’s deal with the …
Continue reading »Last week, Canadian DAM vendor, MediaValet, announced they had integrated their Azure-based Cloud DAM solution of the same name with Office 365:
“Today, with the launch of the Office 365 enabled version of MediaValet, staff, partners and vendors of an organization can quickly and easily access, search and …
Continue reading »Near where I live in North London, there are a large number of takeaway kebab shops. One premises which comes to mind (with reference to the topic under discussion) has written on the sign above its door: “Probably the best kebab in the UK”. Another competitor over the road has …
Continue reading »DAM Guru Program, the association for Digital Asset Management industry practitioners sponsored by Picturepark has released some statistics about their membership (which is now 858-strong according to the stats). There is some press about it and a link to a page with a summary of the stats. This by …
Continue reading »Contain your excitement everyone, that’s right, it’s another DAM solution to join the mere 199 others that have sufficient interest in this market to fill out a free profile with Capterra (and 87 who were somewhat more motivated to participate in our own directory with all of its irritatingly difficult …
Continue reading »Martin Wilson, a director of Bright Interactive (the developers of the Asset Bank DAM solution) has contributed an article for DAM News: AI In DAM: The Challenges And Opportunities. This is related to the Google VISION API review piece I wrote recently, as well as an item …
Continue reading »Recently, while researching more blockchain-related innovations, I came across Mediachain. This is a protocol intended to make it easier for distributed applications to access provenance information about digital assets in a de-centralised manner (i.e not held on a pre-designated server). Any modifications to either the asset essence or its …
Continue reading »Ricky Patten, of Australian DAM resellers and consulting group, DataBasics has written an in-depth article about digital assets and their relationship with museum Collections Management, with specific reference to the SPECTRUM specification established by Collections Trust.
“In my experience, the reasoning behind an organisation implementing a DAMS …
Continue reading »Earlier this year, we invited those DAM vendors who have a listing on our DAM vendor directory to participate in an anonymous pricing survey and we asked for initial requests for interest. A month ago, we sent a circular to those who had indicated they might be willing to do …
Continue reading »Over the last few weeks, there have been a series of press releases from various tech firms, notably Google and Adobe about technologies which claim to automate the image cataloguing process. A few DAM vendors have already integrated the Google Cloud VISION API which is product-agnostic and designed to be …
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