Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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DAM easy
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is super easy to use thanks to it's intuitive interface. I like how easy it has been to setup with years of digital assets that we had to move into it. It has helped us get organized and give access to our assets with our partners around the world.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the pop-up screens aren't as helpful as you'd like. But, I've never gotten into a problem I couldn't figure out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizing our digital assets that had been spread out over hard drives and other cloud storage services.
Giving access to our digital assets to our global partners.
Giving access to our digital assets to our global partners.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Shop around, but I think you'll find this is the best value and easiest to implement.
Great tool for digital storage
What do you like best about the product?
So far, the file sharing process is so seamless it just a huge relief. We send files all the time to each other and outside vendors, and it is so nice to know that all I have to do is upload, share, I am given a link, and that is it! And I know it will always work!
What do you dislike about the product?
Although there is a way to upload a large amount of files at once, it can sometimes create havoc and a little bit of disorganization! But once you get in and start cleaning things up, it all works out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A very transparent file review and sharing process. It has been a huge time saver.
Canto for the Win!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can mass upload thousands of files at once with tags and meta data, and then once they are uploaded type in just a single word and find all files needed. Canto has really simplified file finding. It is super easy to set files as pending or approved so that only the right eyes are able to view and approve files that can then be available for the entire team to access. The mass upload app works like a dream and you can basically upload your entire server all at once if you need to.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't love the navigation on the left side of the site, it feels a little clunky for the streamlined look of the website, but it isn't really necessary to use it when there is the ease of typing in a keyword and getting exactly what you need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving the problem of wasted time looking for flies. What used to take 10 minutes can now be done in seconds. The benefit of putting time in upfront to name and tag everything appropriately helps sort through 1000s and 1000s of files when you need them at the click of a mouse.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely use the free trial period Canto provides before signing up. Upfront you may feel overwhelmed with the setup of tagging files and adding meta data, but once you put in a little time, you will see the huge benefits.
Software to keep you organized and helps you share
What do you like best about the product?
This software is extremely user friendly with the functionalities that I have haven't seen any other software come close to. It has allowed us so much time as it keeps all files and folders organized and easy to reach. This helps us deliver our contents relatively quick and effortlessly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only improvement I really want to see out of this software is fixture of minor bugs and glitches that cause the user to have to reload from the home page as well as load times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization
Updating content
Organizing content
storing content
sharing content
Updating content
Organizing content
storing content
sharing content
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do it! It's saves you time, labor, and money.
Having Used Canto for years it's one of the best out there.
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to tag, categorize and keyword thousands of photographs quickly, and then use those to immediately find the photos we need from thousands. The facial recognition is also excellent for this.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the search feature can be a little clunky and serve up images that it thinks are related when actually I'm searching for a specific tag. Or at times it will say nothing found when I know a certain group of photos or a tag exists.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Every year, we accumulate thousands of photos at our organization, and we used to manage them by storing everything in generic folders. This method was quite cumbersome and inefficient. Now, with Canto, we can effortlessly categorize, tag, and keyword our entire photo library, making it incredibly easy to search for exactly what we need. This new system saves us an immense amount of time and frustration. Additionally, we frequently receive requests from various departments for specific photos of particular subjects. With Canto, we can quickly search, select, and generate a link to share the requested images. This feature is fantastic and has significantly streamlined our workflow, saving us a great deal of time and effort!
Everything We Need
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many things we love about Canto. We had no system for organizing our assets before, and this has been the perfect solution for us so far. I'll do my best to list all our favorite features:
- The user interface is clean and attractive. All the assets we have are easy to identify at a glance. I particularly like the masonry grid view, which not every DAM we looked at had.
- Assets can be organized in multiple albums without being duplicated.
- Canto identifies duplicates when you upload assets, and you can choose what you'd like it to do with them.
- It is very easy to search or browse and find the exact thing you need. As long as you are diligent about adding tags, keywords, and so on, you will be able to find things easily. You can narrow down search results by searching within them or by using filters. There are just so many ways to search for or browse the assets.
- We can request files from our customers using upload links.
- We can easily share files with our customers using share links, and we can put specific permissions or expiration dates on those links to protect brand integrity.
- The user interface is clean and attractive. All the assets we have are easy to identify at a glance. I particularly like the masonry grid view, which not every DAM we looked at had.
- Assets can be organized in multiple albums without being duplicated.
- Canto identifies duplicates when you upload assets, and you can choose what you'd like it to do with them.
- It is very easy to search or browse and find the exact thing you need. As long as you are diligent about adding tags, keywords, and so on, you will be able to find things easily. You can narrow down search results by searching within them or by using filters. There are just so many ways to search for or browse the assets.
- We can request files from our customers using upload links.
- We can easily share files with our customers using share links, and we can put specific permissions or expiration dates on those links to protect brand integrity.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had a few glitches using Canto in Google Chrome, but these were resolved pretty quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We did not have a system in place to organize our assets before Canto. Our files lived in several different places, and if we were looking for an asset to use for a social media campaign, for example, it could take a lot of time and effort to find. We knew we probably had assets that would be perfect, but we didn't always know where they were. Canto has solved that problem, and it has helped us become more efficient in many other ways we didn't foresee. Our design team uses it as a way to collaborate and to share completed assets with the rest of the team. We share files with our customers using expiring download links. And I particularly love the drag and drop tool for publishing assets to our blog and social media.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a small to mid-size organization or a small team within a large enterprise, this is going to be a great solution for you. It's affordable and meets all of the requirements we had without being too overwhelming.
Makes life easier
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has all the best organizational tools + some that you didn't know you needed. Fairly easy to use and beautifully laid-out.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is a bit steep but in the end, worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have millions of images we need to search through daily. The search feature with tags is key.
DAM for Real Estate Agencies
What do you like best about the product?
The platform is user-friendly, easily customizable to your brand and allows users to access all digital assets with a click of the button. It's a great way to stay organized and store multiple forms of media in one location.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mobile Application only available on iOS devices for the moment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organized access to hundreds and thousands of photos all in one place. Search engine capabilities comparable to Google. Smart Tags that help categorize photos and documents.
Canto works well and made life easier for us
What do you like best about the product?
The tagging and search are absolutely the best, easiest to use features. It's the best tagging and search mechanism I've seen for a DAM (which isn't saying a whole lot). The reporting features are great, too. We can easily see what's getting downloaded, what tags are most common, what search terms are most common and what's being uploaded. It really provides a high degree of validation and efficiency monitoring. Love it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Along the same lines, the organization of your content can be daunting, at least at first. With workspaces, folders, teams, and more ways to organize your people and your content, finding the right place for everyone and everything can be confusing. We just end up using search almost exclusively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Canto as an illustrations database. It works great as a way to manage all of our illustrations. We're finding better use of each illustration, easier access, and great reporting to determine what's being used most and where to focus our efforts in the future.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Read through the resources provided by Canto. They have a great, and necessary, knowledge base.
Easy as 1, 2, 3
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to share different folders.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like how you can't share portals the same way as folders. We have portals that shouldn't be seen by certain entities, but the portal names are all public when being shared. So, if X should only see Portal A, but has to select Portal A out of the list of other portals, X will see the other portals that X does not need to see. It's required some work around.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have internal folks, agencies, retailers, and other entities that need to access our files. Having different levels of privacy has been very helpful and the abilities to customize what each can see has been wonderful.
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