Dam News & Articles

It’s been yet another DAM week -- and, in recent digital asset management news, photo delivery should become an Olympic sport, Celum gets a new CSO and the DAM community could get serious about Twitter.

Digital asset management vendor Southpaw Technology announced last week that it is releasing its TACTIC software as open source.

ADAM Software has released Teamwork, a new solution for managing cross-media marketing campaigns. Teamwork addresses many of the workflow and tracking weaknesses that customers have long complained about in ADAM’s digital asset management (DAM) platform.

It’s another DAM week, and, in recent digital asset management news, Widen lays out 10 steps to DAM audit heaven, the DAMMY Awards extends its nominee deadline, TACTIC goes open source, and being dead is no longer an excuse for losing assets.

Independent analyst firm Real Story Group has updated its 2012 Content Technology Vendor Map, and it's a convenient way to view the enterprise landscape.

Ah summertime: days at the beach, sand beneath your toes, water lapping the shore and our thoughts turn to ...SharePoint. SharePoint?

This week kicked off our month long focus on all things SharePoint with some thoughts on its use in today's social enterprise, its capabilities (or lack thereof?) as a Web Content Management platform and some confusing nomenclature in the latest version. 

Digital Marketing was still on our minds though, with some ideas on how to focus your content marketing and some examples of bad content to put out on social media.

Kick back, enjoy the sun and read on. 

A version is defined as a particular form or variant of something. In the case of Digital Asset Management (DAM), versions apply to digital assets and their respective metadata. Without version control and history in DAM, errors during the editing process can turn into disasters.

Another DAM week, another DAM Lowdown. In this week’s digital asset management news, Picturepark continues its region-by-region world tour, Peter Krogh scores an award and WebDAM keeps everyone on a deadline in the loop.

Metadata is important because it helps you and other DAM users find the right files (keywords), understand the content of the files you find (descriptions) and use those files correctly (rights management). That sounds great and all, but who is going to enter all that metadata?

The short answer is: hopefully someone else!

It’s another DAM week, and, in this week’s digital asset management news, a new version of the DAM Maturity Model emerges, the DAMMY Awards hit three and NBCUniversal gets hit. 

A new version of the Digital Asset Management (DAM) Maturity Model is now available.  

When you’re under a deadline, can collaboration features in your digital asset management system help? WebDAM thinks so, and has launched new notification features to speed up collaboration efforts.

It’s another DAM hot week. In this week’s digital asset management news, Picturepark partners south of the border and nearer home, Australian broadcast/multimedia facility FATS Digital expands its digital asset management capability, law enforcement demos the high value of DAM, and the law tries to catch up with a deceased’s virtual assets.  

It’s another DAM week, and this week’s digital asset management news includes the updated Media Collective from the venerable Widen Enterprises, a new Canto Platform for integrating Cumulus, and a beta version 3.4.3 of the open source FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager. 

It’s another DAM week, and this week’s digital asset management news includes a tough broadcasting assignment in Australia for Aspera, a new partnership between iGATE and ADAM Software and an upgraded Cumulus from Canto.