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Adobe touts its Adobe CQ platform and the various marketing solutions it supports and integrates with as a means for marketers to easily manage and deliver multichannel digital content. However, while Adobe’s promotional materials provide an interesting overview of CQ, there is nothing better than actual end user experience to illustrate how well a particular technology works.

A fellow Digital Asset Management (DAM) professional asked me whether I believe part of our job was to minimize liability within an organization. I answered yes. In fact, there are plenty of reasons why this is true and why organizations use this (in part) as another justification to acquire, implement and use Digital Asset Management properly.

Adobe ended this year’s Adobe Summit 2013 digital marketing conference with the traditional “Adobe Sneaks” session that offer brief sneak previews of products that are either in development or beta testing. The session takes a more lighthearted approach, with an open bar and this year actress/musician Carrie Brownstein (of “Portlandia” and Sleater-Kinney fame) served as co-host and provided wry commentary throughout.

It's been a bit quiet in DAM-land this past week, with a few exceptions. In digital asset management news: Adobe releases a new DAM system, tips about tips, thinking about workflows, and thinking about salaries.

When you are looking for advice on purchasing digital asset management systems, there is a lot of information about essential features and more technical elements, but information on how to manage the purchasing process is often harder to find.

Yet another DAM week has passed us by. And, in recent digital asset management news, Picturepark offers gurus an adaptive metadata, Widen updates, North Plains celebrates 2012 and here are six DAM questions.

At the beginning of my DAM career, I consulted on a project for a client who was an absolute pleasure to work with. Not only did they have hot coffee and delicious pastries in the meeting room every morning, they also bought me lunch every day. They were a smart, friendly and polite group of people in dire need of a DAM solution for their collection of over 300,000 photos. Unfortunately, the entire project was a disaster because the only thing I did while onsite with them was drink coffee and eat pastries!

Digital asset management software provider Picturepark has released version 8.4 of its system, which seeks to move the focus from managing files to managing content.

With version 6.3 of its cloud-based digital asset management system, Media Collective, Widen now offers enhanced search, a new Ratings function and a new knowledge base.

The DAM week is behind us, and, in recent digital asset management news: tips on asset and metadata management, Celum’s boffo year, a new experience for WebDAM, compare your salary and is your agency worth a DAM?

Digital asset management vendor WebDAM Solutions is going “radical.” That’s the company’s descriptor for its New WebDAM Experience, released this week, which updates collaboration, search and discovery functionality and the overall user experience.

This DAM week has gone by quickly. And, in digital asset management news: a Glossary rises, Razuna touts new functions and Telestream upgrades.

I have heard Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendors use a lot of words to describe their technology, their components, those configurations, the possible customizations and the variable functionality of their systems. What some DAM vendors are lacking when they use these exciting (and sometimes confusing) words is a concise, glossary of terms. In writing.

DAM, this year is already 8% over, so there’s no time to waste. In recent digital asset management news -- Razuna offers watermarks, Amazon goes transcoding, museums could be thinking DAM convergence and NetXposure exposes version 6.2. 

This time of year is often a popular period for prospective and existing Digital Asset Management users to consider investing in a new system. Anyone who is faced with this task has a bewildering array of choices with hundreds of vendors across a whole spectrum of functionality and significant overlap between them. DAM software is getting ever more versatile and with increased sophistication comes greater complexity for buyers when it comes to comparing options.