KeyFruit’s Whitepaper is now available on Slideshare and Scribd

Our whitepaper talking about Digital Asset Management systems, their benefits, the trends in storage capacity and content creation is now available on Slideshare and Scribd.

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 9

10. Conclusion The role that digital asset management plays in ensuring quality control spans the content development lifecycle. Starting at the design phase, those tasked with creating new content are able to access approved and brand ready assets (“one version of the truth”) as well as important information about each asset in the form of [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 8

9. DAM’s ROI There is no single metric for measuring the ROI for a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system within a company. Identifying the criteria and ultimately measuring ROI depends on the use case(s) for how the DAM system is used. Sometimes, DAM is simply used as a means to access “one version of the [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 7

8. DAM Solution for Business Education Assets, Information Assets, IT Assets, Knowledge Assets, Media Assets, Social Assets, Software Code Assets are all different types of digital assets. Different departments of a company may create or use any of these asset types for many different reasons. A DAM is necessary for storing, record keeping, access controlling [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 6

7. DAM Global Market Status Products in this market were initially custom built solutions to meet the specific needs of individual firms. Now product suites have modular architectures so that customers can pick and choose the functionality they require instead of buying the entire product suite. Product architecture is also very open to allow full [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 5

6. What is Digital Asset Management (DAM)? a. Overview Digital asset management, or DAM, is often described as a process or a tool for organizing the creation, management, distribution and archiving of rich media assets. In the DAM world, the term “assets” generally refers to rich media files such as images, photos, video and audio, [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 4

5. What are Common Digital Asset Delivery Methods? Companies with large data sets continue to use physical methods, recording to DVD, Flash, or HDDs and using a delivery service. This works on an ad‐hoc basis but can lead to high costs. Standard digital alternatives include e-mail or instant messaging services, but these have issues including [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 3

4. Types of Digital Assets Digital assets are comprised of various file types including, but not limited to, the following: product images, lifestyle photography, audio & video formats, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Auto CAD, Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, In-Design, PDF, and various other file formats (Figure 4).

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 2

2. Definition of a “Digital Asset” A digital asset is any form of content and/or media that have been formatted into a binary source which include the right to use it. A digital file without the right to use it is not an asset. Digital assets are categorized in three major groups which may be [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>

Meet DAM and Work Freely With Your Files – 1

What is Digital Universe? Contemplating the digital universe is a little like contemplating Avogadro’s number. It’s big. Bigger than anything we can touch, feel, or see, and thus impossible to understand in context. For the purists, Avogadro’s number — “the number of `elementary entities` (usually atoms or molecules) in one mole, that is (from the [...]

I'll read the rest of this one >>