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Critical Success Factor #2: The Need for DAM Business Support

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Joshua Duhl

When bringing digital asset management (DAM) into and organization, few companies consider the area of “Business Support”. Business Support is defined as the extended organizational infrastructure (people, organizational structures, and technology/systems) that is needed to maintain both the proper functioning … Continue reading →

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Critical Success Factor #1: The Need for Internal DAM Masters

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Joshua Duhl

Almost every successful digital asset management (DAM) installation (hosted/SaaS DAM or on premise) has a resident DAM expert or “DAM Master”. Depending on the size and breadth of the organization this person or sometimes a team of 2-3 people, provides … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Usability in Digital Asset Management

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Joshua Duhl

A recent poll on CMS WiRE on digital asset management (DAM) challenges cited “usability” and “taxonomy/metadata development” as the primary challenges followed very closely (statistically essentially as important) “building the business case/ROI” and “user adoption of the system”. While the poll provided no demographics or information on whether these were actual digital asset management software users or not, the results are not surprising. Usability IS important. Continue reading →

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