Having recently published a report for purchasing managers that explains some best practice recommendations for reviewing digital asset management systems, we decided to devote a separate article on the role of vendor selection consultants and how external advisory service providers can be used in the vendor selection process. There has been a fair amount of [...]
Today we added to our growing range of Digital Asset Management Whitepapers a new report aimed at purchasing managers who have to review DAM systems as part of a corporate purchasing exercise. “DAM System Reviews: A Buyer’s Guide To Procurement Best Practices” describes a framework we have used in our consulting work that helps businesses [...]
Today we released a new white paper about managing and costing DAM projects. We have written the report partly in response to the narrow focus of many of the RFPs we have to review (either in a consultative capacity or when responding to them ourselves). So often we see RFPs that are merely wish-lists of [...]
We have released a report today entitled In-Source or Outsourcing Digital Asset Management Hosting: A Guide For Marketing Managers that aims to guide marketing managers engaged in DAM projects through the often difficult process of deciding whether or not to run their DAM system in-house, on their organisation’s own hosting facilities, or whether they should [...]
UK cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, hit the nail on the head in a statement released last week where he identified that ‘for too long, Government has wasted vast amounts on ineffective and duplicate IT systems‘. While not everyone may agree with his politics, it is an observation that will no doubt resonate not only [...]
Recently, I was a having a conversation with a partner in a professional services business Daydream has dealings with (although they are not a client of ours). We discussed the Wikileaks disclosures where diplomatic cables were copied and released to embarrassment of various governments. My associate explained that currently, they ran the backup for their [...]
We published a new article today entitled: The Seven Deadly Sins of Digital Asset Micromanagement which is all about the use and abuse of permissions (and to a lesser extent workflow) in DAM systems. This is a follow up to our earlier article on the Four Cornerstones of Digital Asset Management. This is a distillation [...]
Since we first started offering Video DAM to our “regular” (i.e. enterprise) clients about 5 years ago, online video has taken off in a big way – in no small part thanks to YouTube and other consumer oriented video platforms. However, there have been a number of seismic shifts in the video technology landscape, most [...]
Last month, an article on CMSWatch.com by Theresa Regli discussed the difficulty of assessing how a DAM system will perform on a typical corporate laptop as compared with what the vendor uses to demonstrate their product at a sales pitch. In particular the thorny subject of older browsers and devices that don’t support Flash (e.g. [...]
