Jahr: 2014

Ralph Windsor – Transforming DAM From A Product To Service-Oriented Delivery Model: “[People] like to think in terms of products. Buying a software system confers an illusion of commitment to doing something about the problem, […], by contrast, strategy and planning implies having to give up more of everyone’s precious time and taking some ownership…

Picturepark CEO Ramon Forster – Diving Head-first into a Suicide Sale: “The other vendor in the bid is known for promising everything you ever want to hear, including substantial discounts, just to land on the short list. I admit that for a fraction of time I questioned whether our principle to be „honest at all…

In Reinventing Digital Asset Management, David Diamond writes about the miserable state of integration between DAM software and the places we want to use our digital assets – “our apps and anywhere else we happen to be — Google plus, a Disqus comments thread, Facebook, Twitter, etc.” Integration with native applications like Photoshop and InDesign…

David Diamond – Reinventing Digital Asset Management: “No matter how pretty the UI, a DAM remains a place people must go to get what they need. We place digital assets in a repository that is almost certainly not where we are when we actually need those assets. […] We want digital asset access, not from…

I keep coming back to Eric Steven Raymond’s 2003 Basics of the Unix Philosophy: “Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces. Rule of Clarity: Clarity is better than cleverness. Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected to other programs. Rule of Separation: Separate policy from mechanism; separate interfaces from engines. Rule…

Jeremiah Karpowicz interviews David Diamond – Fighting DAM Ignorance with Education and Cooperation: “Because the long-term benefits of DAM are so horribly obscured at the beginning, DAM always seems to have more downside than upside. […] DAM vendors like to spew best-practice advice that tells prospects to do their homework and carefully determine their needs.…

There’s been two interesting articles on hybrid Digital Asset Management systems this week: Jeff Lawrence’s Finding the Perfect Balance Between SaaS and In-House DAM, and Ralph Windsor’s Combining On-Premise And SaaS DAM Strategies. I don’t know which DAM products already work the way Jeff is describing – a “tightly integrated hybrid DAM solution” that keeps…

Ben Horowitz back in 1996 – Good product manager, bad product manager: “Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. […] Bad product managers have lots of excuses. Not enough funding, the engineering manager is an idiot,…