Before you even consider talking directly to a DAM vendor, you need to map your company and its silos against the DAM Maturity Model.

The DAM Maturity Model (DAM-MM) uses 15 dimensions organised into four categories  to define the digital asset management ecosystem:

PEOPLE
The human roles, responsibilities, and interrelationships in an organisation’s use and management of DAM

INFORMATION
The material and related descriptors that enable the use of an asset

SYSTEMS
The related components that work together to facilitate the lifecycle of assets

PROCESSES
The repeatable set of procedures and operations designed to realise each stage of an asset’s lifecycle