Category Archives: Digital Asset Management

Using DAM Vendor Selection Consultants – Advice For Purchasing Managers

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 [...]

DAM System Reviews: A Guide For Buyers

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 [...]

Managing and Costing DAM Projects: 8 Steps To Success

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 [...]

The Inconvenient Truths of Enterprise Digital Asset Management

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. [...]

Open Source Digital Asset Management Software: Why Freedom Doesn’t Mean Free

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 [...]