Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM)
DIW, Singapore
Access control for multiple departments During the evaluation of the new DAM system, there is an area that we pay a lot of attention to – access control for multiple tenants. Multiple tenants can be referred to multiple departments, offices around the world, clients, etc. We will use department for illustration in this article. …
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On-premises Hosting (content is hosted within the organisation) At DIW, we advocate hosting your images, videos, documents (digital assets) within your organisation or in a private cloud. However, implementing an on-premises enterprise DAM system may not be suitable for every organisation because of lacking of IT support team. In addition, you need to have …
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In the past one year, we have been searching and evaluating for a “perfect” enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. The objective is to replace the legacy DAM systems that we recommended and implemented for our customers in the past. Why did we take such a long time? Generally, after making an initial enquiry …
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Recently, we received a draft copy of functional requirements document (FRD) from a potential customer. One of the requirements is that the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system must have a basic search function and an advance search function. Like many other potential DAM customers, they are not aware that there is …
For many years, we are so used to categorise our digital files by using the hierarchical folder structure in our computer. This organising habit is certainly inherited from the way we organise the physical documents in the real world, which has become so intuitive that we’re not aware that there are better ways to do …
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On 9 Sep 2016, The Straits Times published a news about the future Tengah HDB town and this picture was printed on the front page. When I saw the red HDB logo watermark at the bottom right hand corner of the picture, I know that the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system that we implemented for …
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Whenever the people we talked to understand what a DAM system is for, very often, they will say something like “Isn’t it similar to storing the digital files in our shared network folder?” “Our Web Content Management System also has a media library module.” “The application we are using provides an archive function for storing …
What you need to know when your DAM vendor promised that they can fulfil all the features you want. DIW did not manage to secure a Digital Asset Management (DAM) project recently. The main reason is because we were given a low score for the part on Functional Requirements, while the other two vendors …
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To be able to manage and preserve digital assets and information responsibly requires more than just having a “good software system”. Internal policies must be in place for proper management of digital materials. A Digital Asset Management (DAM) system fulfils both requirements. It serves not only as a good software system, it can also help …
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Just months after discovering the Heartbleed bug, a new security vulnerability known as the Bash or Shellshock bug is threatening the Internet world again. It is widely reported that this bug could affect machines running on Linux, Unix and Mac. As both Cumulus and Picturepark DAM software systems installed by DIW run on Windows operating …