Rethinking asset management for enterprise digital photography

Enterprise digital imaging departments are facing massive challenges in storage and asset management with few complete solutions on the market that address their workflow needs. Photography has gone digital but the supporting workflows largely remain analog. The baseline for growth will not be set until true digital workflows are designed and built for enterprise digital photography users. Despite the tremendous qualitative improvements in digital photography, the first thing usually done after capture is printing contact sheets and shipping them around the country. Instead, better color calibration, bandwidth, web standards, metadata flexibility, industry knowledge and realized ROI are creating a sweet spot that will allow forward thinking companies to revolutionize the medium of photography. This paper outlines the asset management issues that enterprise digital photography departments are facing today and seeks to provide a framework for how asset management technology and techniques can be critical in helping the industry move towards a fully digital imaging workflow. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]