“We wish we had discovered the Digital Asset Management System before commissioning the development of a custom database.”

We recently had a chat with an organisation about how they handle their project data and media files. Let’s just say… we could see plenty of room for improvement in their workflow! Org N: “We’ve got this custom database system that we built a few years back. It’s supposed to be our central hub for …

How Government Agencies Benefit from Digital Asset Management – Part 2

This post continues from our previous discussion, How Government Agencies Benefit from Digital Asset Management – Part 1. Now, let’s dive into how we configured the DAM system specifically to enhance security and ensure compliance for this government agency. SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Each login is authenticated through a centrally managed identity service – WOG …

In search of a perfect enterprise Digital Asset Management system – Part 4

I do not have permission to download the files I want. Who can I get approval from?   Many DAM systems lack advance governance features like download request and approval workflow. Even if there are such features, they are most likely not designed with multi-department deployment in mind.   Here is an illustration.   For …

In search of a perfect enterprise Digital Asset Management system – Part 3

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. …

In search of a perfect enterprise Digital Asset Management system – Part 2

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 …

In search of a perfect enterprise Digital Asset Management system – Part 1

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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