Digital Asset Management

Widen Enterprises – Why we don’t need digital asset management to run our marketing operations.

by Jake Athey

I work in a small marketing team of about five. We have a designer, a product manager, a brand manager, a marketing assistant and an online marketer. We work closely with the sales and customer success management teams. We [...]

Recognition for going above and beyond the ‘call of duty’ is not often rewarded. Sometimes not even mentioned in the workplace. While we don’t need a ticker tape parade or gold medals for ‘just doing our job’, mentioning and/or rewarding real achievements is one way to recognize individual overachievers and your organization’s top performers. Anyone who has worked with Digital Asset Management (DAM) knows it is not as easy as pie.

A DAM Award can recognize your organization’s top DAM users and top performers. How do you find these top performers?

The Importance Of Digital Asset Management For Business.
By Dr John Yardley, JPY
Simply put, Digital Asset Management (DAM) products provide a way to organise your company’s valuable files – your ‘digital assets’ – in a way that makes them quick-to-find and easy to access.
Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) live or die by their data. In an information economy, [...]

SaaS vs Hosted, Part 1: The Differences are in the Design « DAM-it!.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), also known as Cloud Computing, has been a buzzword around technology circles for a few years now. We’ve seen its ease and capability in many different forms, from the popular Salesforce.com CRM application to our own WebDAM solution. However, some confusion [...]

Your DAM is only as good as its metadata…and the DAM’s usability.

If you have a Digital Asset Management solution in your organization, how many metadata fields do you have within the DAM? Take this quick, anonymous poll.

A Special Breed: Staffing a Digital Asset Management Implementation | We Speak Digital Media.
So you’re implementing a DAM solution, and you want to know what sort of person (or people) you should hire (or promote) to ensure the implementation is a success.  What types of qualifications define a good DAM manager?  It’s a good [...]

SAP adds Digital Asset Management to its ECM Offerings by Leveraging its Strategic Relationship with Open Text

SAP has now added more value to its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) offerings by adding digital asset management as one of its key components. SAP and Open Text have had a successful collaboration for more than a [...]

Despite current economic times, Digital Asset Management (DAM) jobs are listed on a regular basis throughout the United States and the world. While many positions are clustered around major cities, there are often 100+ jobs listed at any one time. So the question is if you have relevant job experience (according to the individual job description) in the field of DAM, where do you look?

CMS Watch > Blog: What is Content Management?.

There’s a question that keeps popping up around our industry: “What is Enterprise Content Management?”
You’ll find no lack of answers.  My colleague Alan argues persuasively that ECM is most useful as a term to describe the biggest platform vendor offerings. Industry association AIIM defines ECM as “…strategies, [...]

In the midst of a digital asset management breakdown, you may wonder why you went to a DAM system in the first place. Stop wondering. DAM systems are the one of the best ways for large creative operations to compete in the digital age. The key to doing more good than harm is to find [...]