Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Great Organizational Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of organizing photos on Canto has been crucial to our department. We have a large variety of photo assets that can make it difficult navigate. Additionally, some photos need to be accessed by certain departments, and not others. The ability to restrict files has provided a great option for our organization to ensure that everyone can utilize what they need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The userinterface of Canto leaves a lot to be desired. While I appreciate it's simplicity, it feels a bit dated and could use a refresh. Additionally, without proper training, it can be a bit difficult to navigate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the biggest problems that we have solved is having content housed in multiple places. Canto offers the organization a centralized location for photography. Additionally, the ability to create tags for photos has saved time for users searching for content.
Cano has made things to much easier for our team
What do you like best about the product?
It has streamlined so many processes. Everyone on our team now knows exactly where everything lives and can access it themselves. Before we just had a dropbox account that everyone accessed under the same generic login. There was no accountability of oversight. Now were are able to track any changes that are made, easily collaborate, and get what we need, when we need it.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far we have not run into any issues or drawbacks when using Canto.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It really saves us a lot of time and money. Most of our designers are contract workers and when we can't find assets, we have to have them recreate them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ask a lot of questions. They take you through a lot in the demos but the more questions you ask, the more you start to see all the ways it can help you and your organization. Use tons of tags!
Two Thumbs up for Canto!
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite thing about Canto is it's ease of use. There are several ways to search for assets which make it very easy for users to locate assets. I come from a background of keywords and tags and appreciate the way it is laid out in Canto and as an administrator I also love the reporting aspect, specifically the metadata activity metrics. Another huge plus is the external connections you can link to upload from Dropbox and Google Drive.
Finally their implementation team and account support is top notch. They followed through with anything we asked of them and made sure we were well trained and ready to train others. We continue to have meetings with them and I learn something new every time that makes me more impressed with Canto. I highly recommend!
Finally their implementation team and account support is top notch. They followed through with anything we asked of them and made sure we were well trained and ready to train others. We continue to have meetings with them and I learn something new every time that makes me more impressed with Canto. I highly recommend!
What do you dislike about the product?
I really don't have a whole lot to complain about. I would just recommend that before your team is ready to upload from an external connection into Canto, make sure you do some up front work in your existing file structure. It makes the upload much easier, it's hard to change the file structure once assets are uploaded into Canto but there are workarounds.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto's DAM has helped us get our assets into a central and easily accessible location. No more worrying about what happens if a hard drive is lost!
good organizational tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Ability to add multiple users with different editing levels, so some people can just download images but not edit them, etc.
- Organizing albums into folders and being able to upload the same image into multiple albums
- Organizing albums into folders and being able to upload the same image into multiple albums
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things in editing/settings can be hard to find because the interface is so clean. One example is adding custom tags, we have it set up so we have a category for adding the photographer's name. I have had to go in and add a photographer a few times and it's always tricky to remember how to get to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization is huge, it's also great to use it as a photo collection tool. We will have events where we have our own photographers, but it's good that people from other groups can upload their images as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canto is a great tool for anyone with multiple photographers and photo editors who need to work together to stay organized.
Intuitive Interface, Good tagging options
What do you like best about the product?
I think Canto has done a good job at implementing a balanced product. I was looking for several different ways of tagging assets. The AI tagging, descriptions, keywords, tags, + custom tags. Interface is easy to use. Some ability to customize layout to show/hide meta information.
The other feature I really liked was the ability to create portals to share photos from albums without having to create users for those outside of our team.
The other feature I really liked was the ability to create portals to share photos from albums without having to create users for those outside of our team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Facial recognition has it's challenges. They use AWS. They've only had this for about 6 months though, so I'm hopeful it'll improve. I don't currently use it for now.
I wish Support would be more proactive when I provide feedback in the shortcomings of their product. Offer to submit an enhancement or something.
I wish Support would be more proactive when I provide feedback in the shortcomings of their product. Offer to submit an enhancement or something.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed to get away from the use of shared network drives and emails for storing/sharing photos. We didn't have an ability to effectively search photos or filter based on our results. We've already been able to satisfy several large requests for photos because of the search ability. What would've taken us hours before, now only took minutes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Proper tagging will be the success or failure of any DAM solution. Take the time to educate the team on proper tagging structure.
Canto didn't offer as much guidance during setup as I had hoped for. We have a lot of one-off photos from events that are difficult to create reusable tags for. We ended up finding our own process for tagging these.
Canto didn't offer as much guidance during setup as I had hoped for. We have a lot of one-off photos from events that are difficult to create reusable tags for. We ended up finding our own process for tagging these.
Canto has exceeded my expectations
What do you like best about the product?
It's so easy to use and has so many functionalities. It's just so easy to customize. Implementation was easy as well. We use it to share files and to organize all our company photos and videos. We were using our share drive before and that just wasn't working. The load time was forever and the files where not secure so people could delete things whenever they wanted. Not ideal. On the marketing side, it was impossible to look through our photos quickly to get one in an email.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be overwhelming with all the ways you could organize your instance. As far as functionality, my only gripe is the multi-select option. The check box for selecting photos is sooooo light in color that you can't easily see which ones were selected. Plus, you must click RIGHT on that checkmark, or it doesn't take. Small price to pay though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped revolutionize the way that we store of company photos. We have since released it to the whole company and they absolutely love having access to our company photos. We find new uses for the portals all the time as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take your time and make sure your structure is set up correctly.
The portals are amazing and we have found many uses for them. We have sent all of our employees a link to a portal for employee photos with all our events. They love that they can search their name and find all the photos with them in it. We have also used it for
The portals are amazing and we have found many uses for them. We have sent all of our employees a link to a portal for employee photos with all our events. They love that they can search their name and find all the photos with them in it. We have also used it for
Great asset management
What do you like best about the product?
As an administrator, I don't have to keep up with updates of the software or troubleshoot why something has stopped working. We used Cumulus for years, and they took the best features and simplified it into Canto. It may be simpler, but has all the features we need. Creating Portals for our consumers is easy. Adding tags and keywords is very easy. Customization is easy. We didn't utilize all the nuances in Cumulus, so when some thing didn't work or was different from one catalog to another, it was hard to remember where to look to manage preferences. Canto is straightforward and so far we don't miss all the many preferences we were able to set in Cumulus. SaaS is very nice - no server and subsequent updates to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
We are still getting used to how to filter and search. It is different than how Cumulus looked but is fresh. Our contributor seats are limited because of cost, but we hope to expand down the road. I would love to be able to have a base of contributors of 5 in their initial cost to allow some flexibility. Having brought over our assets from Cumulus, I would like to see a better folder structure look. It is a bit confusing looking to us. I do miss being able to set sticky search criteria per user to allow us and others to do that in the most helpful way to them. Cost is pricey for a higher ed institution, but is very much in line with other DAMs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making Portals allows a lot of flexibility with what our users see, and the layout is much more intuitive than our previous Portals. We are able to use multi-factor authentication with our user groups which adds security to the system without managing passwords. Setting preferences is very easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
While everything is simpler and easier to manage, make sure you have the flexibility and features you need if you are coming from another DAM software. If you are just starting out using a DAM for your company, this is a perfect way to get started.
Love the Ease of Use of Canto!
What do you like best about the product?
I like Canto because I can search the graphic that I need, without choosing the type of file -- just in case I find other types of images, or videos that I want. But, I can ALSO search a particular file type, too. It is very flexible in that way. And, it is a great place to store everything, from across our institution, so that I can see how others are promoting a particular thing. It was very easy to learn...trainings were offered, and is very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing I dislike are some of the less than helpful tags that the program will add to an image. I understand, though, that over time the AI will become smarter and tag in a more appropriate and helpful manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everything from across our institution is saved all on one platform that is easily searchable. And, better yet, I can develop a folder for my own files, too -- as well as have files for the media I deal with - so I don't have to find things for them!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a flexible, searchable, intuitive platform in which you can store many files of different file types; and be also able to share URL's for others to find the things they need -- this is the platform for you.
Canto in the Office
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate the ease of use within the library, everything can be easily organized and have a place. I also like the feature to view photo locations on the map- is very helpful when trying to find a particular or older photo.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes all the photos on the home screen can be overwhelming. Would like to open Canto and be on my own following or collections. With such a large company many photos are uploaded. I also would like more user tutorials- I am new to a company who has been using the application for a while so whereas they're familiar I'd like a guide.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
N/A. Unsure.
Image Relay provides a media hosting solution that our company needed
What do you like best about the product?
We've used a couple different media hosting sites before and Image Relay has provided the best service for what we needed. The media displays fast, uploads & downloads are quick and it's a very clean & organized layout. Also being able to control who has access is big
What do you dislike about the product?
Speeds could be faster and it would be cool to have "versions" of media to keep track of changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Media hosting solution that we can control the access to.
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