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. [...]
A number of open source DAM solutions are now being offered across all platforms now by a variety of vendors. Daydream has always used an open source model for our FocusOPEN Digital Asset Manager and in general this is a positive development. Several commentators, however, have raised concerns about the nature of the solutions provided [...]
(You say tomato…) It seems that the term ‘brand asset management’ has been adopted by a two distinct practitioner camps in recent years, leading to some confusion of the term’s definition, or more importantly, to whom its problems should be tasked. Companies in both the technology and creative industries release press on the subject and [...]
