How to select a DAM/MAM vendor

05-May-2010 By Theresa Regli
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Slides from Internet World UK presentation: This presentation looks at the current technology in the DAM marketplace, and what some of the latest and most interesting new developments are. You'll learn about what else might be possible in the DAM realm for your organisation in the coming months. We'll look at 20+ vendors, where they focus and what they offer, debunking the marketing hype and looking at where different vendors excel (or don't).

What to Look for when Evaluating WCM and DAM Workflow Systems

11-Mar-2010 By Kas Thomas
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Almost every Web Content Management (WCM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) System -- from the most feature-sparse “starter” system to the Oracles and IBMs of the world -- offer some sort of workflow system: a system for assigning and routing work among actors in the system. In addition to enforcing consistency, workflows can minimize the cost and time required to coordinate common business processes (usually content approval) by helping to automate, manage, and track the human tasks involved with those processes. That's in theory. In practice, a bad workflow system can facilitate just the opposite: semi-orchestrated chaos, as individual participants either abandon or work around clumsy processes that don't accommodate the actual way they need to work.

Using RFIs in the Procurement Process

24-Feb-2010 By Alan Pelz-Sharpe
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With most prospective technology buyers, great effort is normally expended on an RFP process at the cost of the RFI. In fact, there often is no RFI, which is backward thinking; the purpose of an RFI is to gather information so that you can make better decisions. It is also a key tool for early elimination of those suppliers that cannot or should not be working with you.

How the New Platforms vs. Products Debate Impacts Your Success

23-Feb-2010 By Tony Byrne
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An important, yet rarely acknowledged architectural and product development shift has transpired over the past couple of years in the content technology marketplaces we cover. The debate has shifted from "Suite vs. Best of Breed" to "Platform vs. Product." This is partly a natural evolution in vendor marketing as technologies and marketplaces mature. Yet this shift also has profound implications for you, the customer. Beyond the normal criteria of cost, functional fit, and vendor fit, you need to assess a tool's position on the Platform-Product continuum against internal needs and capabilities.

Making Sense of Software Licensing

23-Feb-2010 By Alan Pelz-Sharpe
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Pricing for any enterprise software application can be difficult to negotiate. Sometimes this is a deliberate attempt, where vendors mask the true cost of the solution. In other cases, it simply is due to a very large set of software packages that make up a "suite" solution, with a myriad of possibly required combinations.

User Management: Access Control and Entitlements

27-Jan-2010 By Kas Thomas
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Almost any large enterprise software application that's intended to be accessed by multiple users will include some kind of user management model applying "groups' and "roles." Unfortunately, vendors tend to be somewhat haphazard with this vocabulary; some vendors use the term role to refer to what others might call a group, and vice versa. Software makers also talk about rights and entitlements, which are frequently used interchangeably -- even though they are conceptually distinct.