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Articles on DAM basics

All articles on DAM basics in the VAULO blog — hands-on knowledge about media archives, metadata and workflows, written by the people who build VAULO.

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  • Workflow
  • DAM basics

Document versioning: how to get multiple file versions under control

Several file versions in circulation and nobody knows which one applies? This is how automatic versioning in digital asset management software ends version chaos in your company.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
8 min read
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  • DAM basics

What is a DAM? Digital asset management explained simply

A DAM system is the central software that companies use to organize, find, share and securely manage images, videos, logos and documents — instead of losing them in folders, emails and clouds.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
11 min read
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  • Metadata
  • DAM basics

Metadata that pays off: eight fields instead of eighty

The most common way a DAM rollout fails is a metadata model that is too good. How to find the fields that actually get maintained — and leave out the rest.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
3 min read
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  • DAM basics
  • Workflow

A shared cloud folder is not a media archive

SharePoint, Dropbox and the network drive solve storing files. They do not solve finding them again. How to recognise the point where a folder stops carrying the weight.

Sebastian KüstersManaging Director
4 min read
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  • Sustainability
  • DAM basics

The climate footprint of your media archive: cloud vs. server room

Growing media archives consume power — the question is how much, and from where. Why VAULO runs on Microsoft Azure data centres in Germany, and what that means for energy and CO₂ according to Microsoft's own study.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
2 min read
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  • DAM basics
  • Workflow

Why a DAM when you already have a CMS?

WordPress, TYPO3 or Drupal manage the website — but not the media library behind it. Where the line between CMS and DAM runs, and why combining the two is the actual answer.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
2 min read
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  • DAM basics
  • Workflow

What does searching cost? An honest DAM savings calculation

Knowledge workers spend around 1.8 hours a day searching for information, according to McKinsey. What that costs per head and year — and what a DAM realistically changes. With the maths laid open.

Marc ConzelmannManaging Director
2 min read
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  • DAM basics

The best DAM system in 2023

Today, every company, every club and every other organisation has a large amount of digital content to manage. To give you …

VAULOEditorial Staff
4 min read

See VAULO against an archive of your own

Thirty days, your own files, no credit card. After that you will know whether the search holds up to what this article promises.