What lurks in the heart of your digital asset management system? Learn the signs your DAM may not make it to the end credits — and what you can do about it. Get examples from real case studies at top enterprises where teams found themselves living real-life DAM nightmares.

1. Isyour DAM ahorror
show? 5scarysigns
towatchout for
Uri Kogan
Vice President, Product Marketing
Nuxeo
David Lipsey
Moderator
Chair of Henry Stewart DAM Conferences

2. Inflexible
systemskeep
youlockedin…
andunable
toadapt

3. Ecomm Photo studio DAM

4. Ecomm
Custom
photo
studio
DAM #1
Ecomm
Outsourced
photo studio
DAM #2
Ecomm
Outsourced
photo
studio
Dropbox Desktop FTP Retouch FTP Desktop

5. Ecomm
Custom
photo
studio
DAM #1
Ecomm
Outsourced
Photo studio
DAM #2
Ecomm
Outsourced
photo
studio
Dropbox Desktop FTP Retouch FTP Desktop
?

6. Thevaluetrap
happensbecause
ofwhatlies
beneathyour
DAM:itsdata
model

7. Whenyou’rein
thevaluetrap,
costsspiralupward

8. TheValueTrap:
Caught in a DAM that kills your agility
AdditionalReading
8
https://www.nuxeo.com/resources/avoid-the-dam-value-trap-ebook/

9. The
FrankenDAM:
It’sAlive!
9

10. Searchesthattake
10+seconds
10
Systemfailures
underhighload
Slowdownloads,
especiallyfor
internationalteams

11. PerformanceofaOneBillionAssetDAM
Dayinthelife
(600concurrentusers)
Moving massive
assets
Highspeed ingest
and index
Prores 4444XQ
(1TB)
2.5hrvideo
Alluploads
in1hour
Alldownloads
In10minutes
95%of
searchesin
1/50thof
asecond
95%
73min
download
3.5hourstoupload
and transcode
250
MB/sec
93
MB/sec
12 hours
toingest & index
1billionassets
40,000
assets/second ingest
20,000
assets/second index
240 180 180
Filesupto
41GBeach
Simple and
complex
searches

12. I want to eat…
yourtime!
1412

13. VampireDAMs
blockcreativityandleadto
lowadoptionrates
13

14. 14
Less-greatwaystosolve
thevisibilityproblem:
Separatedsilos
(problem:darkcorners)
Totalvisibility
(problem:chaosreigns)

15. 15
Less-greatwaystosolve
thevisibilityproblem:
DAMhierarchies
(problem:duplication
andwastedtime)
Federatedsearch
(problem:organization
throughtheeyesof
others)

16. 16
Non-hierarchicalcontent
Organizecontenttheway
itmakessensetoyou
Seewhat’simportant,
whenitmatters
Stopduplicationand
keepversioncontrol
Bettersolution

17. HeirarchicalDAM:no
matchforthehumanbrain
17

18. HierarchicalDAM:no
matchforthehumanbrain
18
Home mortgage
Marriage certificates
Tax registers
Lawsuits

19. HierarchicalDAM:no
matchforthehumanbrain
19

20. 20
Hithere,I’myour
DAM.CallmeDr.
Jekyll!
Ihopewecanbe
friends

21. 21
Couldweadd10fields?
Sure!
…(typinginadminpanel)
It’sdone!
Thanks!

22. 22
Couldweadd15fields?
Noproblem!
Umm…whichfields
matter?I’mconfused!
…
Allgoodnow!
…
…

23. 23
Weneedonemorefield!
Ok,holdon…

24. 24
Whydon’tIseethechange?
It’sacustompage.
Youhavetoupdate
thepagecode.
How?
Yourdevelopercanhelp.
Don’thaveone.
Here’soursalesrep’s#!

25. OurHouseof
Horrors...and
howtoescape:
25
VampireDAM:
Time-eatingprocessrequirements
TheValueTrap:
LockedintoaDAMthatkillsyouragility
FrankenDAM:
Slow,lumberingperformance
Dr.Jekyll/Mr.Hyde:
Friendly…untilyouneedchanges
Lackofvisibility:
Darkcornerswhererisklurks

26. Q&A
uri@nuxeo.com
nuxeo.com
@nuxeo