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  • A four column comparison grid of nine rows filled with teal discs, hollow rings and amber crosses, one column visibly denser with discs

    Choosing a System

    Alternatives to buying a DAM and a PIM

    August 17, 2026
  • An overhead pre-flight bench with a blank checklist strip, a tray of matte objects and a grey card, one object set apart under an amber lamp

    Operations

    The catalogue launch checklist

    August 11, 2026
  • A schematic of one asset feeding a teal URL rail with eight branches to differently proportioned outputs, above a struck-through amber container of stored duplicates

    Integration

    DAM for developers: the API-first path

    July 17, 2026
  • Two cumulative effort curves over thirty-six months, the teal one rising in steps then flattening, the amber one climbing smoothly and never flattening

    Choosing a System

    Build versus buy for the product catalogue

    July 11, 2026
  • A compact tabletop shooting setup with a small sweep, two lights, a grey card and a receding row of empty stands, one lit amber where the sweep is creased

    Operations

    Product photography without a studio backlog

    July 7, 2026
  • A schematic of an API surface as a vertical rail with eight ports of different profiles, two lower ports blanked off with amber hatching

    Integration

    The PIM API: what to demand before you buy

    June 29, 2026
  • One authoritative record card at the centre with five teal threads to partial views around it, one of them an amber full copy with a cut thread

    Product Data

    Single source of truth, applied to product data

    June 23, 2026
  • A scatter plot of products against channels, teal dots clustered low left, pale dots spread through the middle, an amber threshold curve sweeping between them

    Choosing a System

    Do you need a PIM yet?

    June 22, 2026
  • A long dark worktable with four stations, the first under teal light, the middle two under pale fill, the far one half in shadow under an amber lamp

    Operations

    Running product content as an operation

    June 8, 2026
  • One master specification sheet surrounded by six smaller sheets of different proportions on teal threads, two of them trimmed short with amber cut edges

    Product Data

    Syndicating product data to marketplaces

    June 7, 2026
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DAM vs PIM

Where the asset ends and the product record begins. A working reference on digital asset management and product information management for ecommerce and product teams: system boundaries, product data modelling, integration, content operations, and what any of it actually costs.

Topics

  • Fundamentals
  • Product Data
  • Integration
  • Operations
  • Choosing a System

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  • DAM vs PIM: who owns which record
  • DAM, PIM, CMS and ERP
  • Do you need a PIM yet?
  • What it actually costs
  • The alternatives, ranked

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