Dam
Digital asset management: the system that owns the asset and everything intrinsic to it, from what it depicts through to how it renders for a destination.
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DAM, PIM, CMS and ERP: the boundary map
Four systems, overlapping feature lists, and one question that settles nearly every argument between them. Here is the field-level map, the two boundaries that are genuinely contested, and how many of the four you actually need.
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What a DAM actually does
A DAM is not a folder with a search box. The difference is that an asset in a DAM knows what it is, what it is allowed to be used for, and how to render itself for a destination, and a file in a bucket knows none of that.
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DAM vs PIM: which system owns which record
The comparison charts make DAM and PIM look like competitors. They are not. One holds the asset, the other holds the product, and almost every argument between them resolves by asking which system is authoritative for the field in dispute.