Digital Asset Management - A Broader Approach for Your Digital Data
Posted by Nextware Technologies on September 29th, 2016
Digital Asset Management solutions organize information in an efficient way, making data easy to access and quick to find. As the sea of data grows ever larger, digital asset management is quickly becoming a competitive advantage for businesses. A good digital asset management solution will not only organize your digital assets—it can also allow your company to access it to make use of your data flexibly.
Digital assets or files come in a wide array of forms, from documents sent via email to photos taken with digital cameras down to files contained or downloaded from USB keys. Have you thought about how your company stores and sorts these files? If your digital assets number in the thousands and have to be accessible by clients and co-workers all over the world, your company can benefit from the flexibility and power of a robust digital asset management system. If your operating systems are the warehouses where your company keeps crucial data, then digital asset management is the inventory control system, facility manager, security guard, and courier service all rolled into one.
Some of the most successful companies in the world (no matter what size) use digital asset management solutions to increase productivity:
• Digital asset management can make any digital file available to authorized users via an easy to use interface (even through a web browser). It is extremely useful for a global workforce or traveling employees who need to access files on the go, from one central place.
• A good digital asset management solution can boost productivity by enhancing access to commonly held work products. Work doesn’t have to stop when someone has to upload a file for the group.
• Companies structure their digital asset management systems according to their unique needs. This is not possible with regular operating systems (such as Windows) that support fixed metadata and don’t allow you to add fields or modify existing fields to better suit your workflow. With a customized digital asset management system, you can use your own internal jargon and structure information in ways that allow you to make efficient use of your data. You can quickly create custom metadata fields using a simple interface.
• A digital asset management system can likewise eliminate inefficient file duplications or identify different or conflicting units, which can make searching for and retrieving files cumbersome and unpredictable.
Proper digital asset management can also make your files more secure. A well designed system can integrate grant or revoke access rules, license expiration dates, and other such security measures.
About the Author:
Afshin at Nextware Technologies brings more than twenty years of experience to the team in developing state-of-the-art IT solutions and re-engineering business processes. He joins us from Moog, Inc., a leading aerospace manufacturing firm, where he managed a team of engineers and IT staff supporting a global user base in 26 countries. Prior to Moog, he helped transform Curlin Medical from a struggling, single-product medical device manufacturer to a diversified, M powerhouse with 250 employees worldwide and a range of highly-differentiated flagship products. Afshin received his B.S. in Computer Science from California State University of Fullerton.
