SWITCH DESK

Leave the big DAM. Keep the photos.

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About Switch Desk

Switch Desk is an independent guide for Dutch organisations that are changing image bank, DAM or photo storage.

Switch Desk is an independent editorial guide for communication, marketing and office teams in the Netherlands who are thinking about leaving a large DAM, or about moving their photos out of a shared drive.

We write the way a candid consultant would talk: what to look for in an alternative, what you can drop when you downsize, how to export assets and metadata, and which questions to ask a vendor before you sign. Competitors are mentioned by name only, so you can search for them, and we avoid claims about products we cannot verify.

Every guide is built around one idea: a switch is a route with stops. Compare, plan, move. Use the lines on the home page to find the route that fits your situation, and check the details with any vendor yourself before you decide.

  1. 1

    Compare

    Set criteria before you look at vendors: price structure, hosting, support and time to start.

  2. 2

    Plan

    Decide what to keep, what to leave and who owns the export of assets, metadata and consent.

  3. 3

    Move

    Migrate in waves, test with real photos and switch off the old system only when the new one works.