So you’re thinking about upgrading from Dynamic Media Classic? The good news is that Adobe has handled the hardest part: the Dynamic Media Classic URLs that serve images, videos, and PDFs do not need to change. Thank goodness.
But there is still complexity, and after solving the hardest and most universal problem, Adobe has left the variously customer-specific questions of legacy integrations, asset organization, metadata enrichment, account consolidation, and cutover plans in the realm of implementation.
That is where Freedom can help.
Continuing our series of posts to explain the pieces of AEM Assets, this article covers infrastructure deployment options and other AEM products that are sometimes bundled into an AEM Assets sale.
This information is less focused on interesting DAM capabilities than earlier posts, but it is very important. Infrastructure decisions are harder to change and products have more impacts to price, so be sure you’re making informed decisions on these points.
Adobe has tried never tried to overcomplicate licensing around their DAM product. Since they first went to market with Adobe Experience Manager Assets, the license structure has been built around one major factor (e.g. number of instances) with a few minor factors (e.g. number of users).
But as Adobe has improved AEM Assets and connected it to various other Adobe products, the pieces have gotten more complicated.
This article will attempt to explain the various pieces that make up AEM Assets today. Elements with potential licensing impacts are covered first, but we plan on covering some of the freebie components in a future post.
Every technical project goes through a few standard phases—design, build, and test are common examples. Digital Asset Management projects typically include a precursor phase that is often referred to as “interminable waiting.” Organizations using that delay productively will greatly improve their eventual DAM project.
The disconnect between creative vision and financial performance is where Asset Performance reports solve a major problem.
To find out how to tell if your creative is generating revenue, read on.
Efficiency reports provide insight into historical performance in order to guide strategic decisions about the future.
These are the most useful types of reports for most Creative Directors and CMOs. To learn more, read on.
Work in Progress reports are designed to help managers balance the workload across teams and team members.
If you ever need this information, read on.
If the DAM market were a game of poker, usage reports would be table stakes—you can’t really play without them.
To learn more, read on.
In the next two years, Creative Directors without a DAM reporting solution will begin to be fired.
Sound like an exaggeration? Read on and tell us we're wrong...
No, we’re not suggesting that DAM systems are actually including toasting functions.
But if you’ve ever had a sudden panic about leaving the gas on in your kitchen, we’re sorry to be the ones to break it to you that failing to perform routine technical maintenance on your DAM system may have equally explosive results.
Read more about how to avoid exploding your system (and your career).
In 2013, a French economist named Thomas Piketty published a simple formula that provided a rallying call for the dispossessed: r > g. Two simple variables and their relationship dictated inevitably increasing inequality in capitalist systems.
I recently spent a lively couple of hours discussing a DAM issue with a colleague. Freedom’s focus is DAM implementation, and because no two clients (and no two DAMs) are identical, we talk a lot around here. As we each posed questions it became clear we were again, quite literally, speaking different languages.
