Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Canto Can Do A Lot!
What do you like best about the product?
For us, it's all about ease of use. The majority of our company use this software to upload, view and share content and we love that it requires very little in the way of training to get everyone up to speed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the system was better at identifying and helping us to remove poor quality images and duplicates. I also wish we could pre-define image tags so that images are always being saved to the same locations, thus making it easier to find/search for the content your looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto gives us a singular place to store all of our produced and shared content which helps to keep us organized and efficient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a very powerful DAM tool and we have 100% confidence in it.
It depends on your use case
What do you like best about the product?
The platform was simple, easy to learn, and a very easy solution for managing a lower amount of image-only assets and information for those. It also has very thorough documentation and a great support team.
What do you dislike about the product?
This platform is really not meant for larger databases, and the fields can sometimes be changed too easily or automatically without asking during some processes like adding a new version. If you have a larger amount of assets (in the hundreds of thousands) look elsewhere.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking to create a database for many images and data attached to each. There were benefits in using Canto such as quickness, ease of use, and simplicity. In other aspects however, it lacked and ultimately was not a solution for our larger library.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have a larger database or amount of assets, look elsewhere. Otherwise, for a smaller set of photographic images, business documents, etc. it's great.
Canto Review
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to put all files into one shareable space
What do you dislike about the product?
Files getting lost and having dead-end links when sharing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to stay organized and connected to all projects, new and old.
Great tool for file sharing/storing/sorting
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy having the shareable links that can direct outside parties to folders that have their content in them. This way I don't have to use another third-party tool like Google Drive or Dropbox to share documents with clients. Downloading content is easy as well. The My Collections function is great in that it allows me select save files to the My Collections folder. This can help make it easier to find images and documents that I use most often.
I also like being able to filter by keywords and tags. It is important that your team utilize these correctly and have unified definitions in place before using this, though. However, this can make it much easier to find what you're looking for.
I also like being able to filter by keywords and tags. It is important that your team utilize these correctly and have unified definitions in place before using this, though. However, this can make it much easier to find what you're looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search function does leave something to be desired. I have found it hard to find past documents, images, graphics, etc. But honestly part of that could be just how our team names those folders and files.
While the My Collections function is great, the Following and My Selections functions seem redundant. Another downside is that the shareable links that we use to share the content with outside clients does expire. I know this is for security, but if the client does not access the content in a timely fashion, which happens often, then we have to resend it.
While the My Collections function is great, the Following and My Selections functions seem redundant. Another downside is that the shareable links that we use to share the content with outside clients does expire. I know this is for security, but if the client does not access the content in a timely fashion, which happens often, then we have to resend it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to share whole folders if images with our team members as well as with outside clients from one platform. We assign work to each other from here as well. Sharing with outside clients is one of my favorite points. I can share a link to the content with them without having to reupload images to Google Drive or Dropbox or Onedrive. I
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that your team is using all of the features of Canto. That is, make sure they're using keywords and tags with a unified approach. It helps with search later.
Affordable and easy-to-use cloud-based option for digital asset management
What do you like best about the product?
Canto's web-based interface is so intuitive that it's very easy to train others how to use it. Even before we roll it out to our entire organization, it has already transformed and streamlined our processes for helping internal and external clients select imagery for their projects. The searchability, speed, and accessibility of our library is enormously improved over our old system of using shared network drives that required a VPN connection.
What do you dislike about the product?
The responsive design of the Canto interface is good, but could be better. On smaller laptop screens, the full page width isn't always viewable, but I don't think that takes away from the base-level user's experience, since they have fewer options than admin-level users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our communications has a better handle on copyright control and proper use of up-to-date images because of the centralization of our image library. Canto also offers sorting/favoriting options that allow us to curate collections of images to share with internal and external clients.
Canto User Experience
What do you like best about the product?
It is intuitive and easy to use, provides a manageable way to store a high volume of photos and access what you need quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some further customization, for example being able to upload with specific project numbers for images that can be made generic when they are downloaded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to more quickly access and find the images we want from a vast library.
Canto hits the sweet spot for price and features
What do you like best about the product?
We love having a single library, that's easy to access, easy to curate, and easy to share/find content. When looking at all of our options, we found that Canto hit the sweet spot between price and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside that we've noticed is that it can be a bit slow to load screens at times. But it's really not a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an over 200-year-old company with a history of catalogs and eCommerce, to say we've accumulated a lot of digital assets through the years would be an understatement. Like many others, our assets were scattered throughout different directories on network file shares, cloud environments like Sharepoint and Google Drive, as well as local computers. We wanted a central repository to consolidate everything going forward; assign a "librarian" to organize and curate the content; have permissions to ensure appropriate people are uploading content to appropriate locations; and then have an excellent way to organize the content by tags, keywords, custom properties, albums, etc. so that our team can easily find what they are looking for without wasting time looking in random file shares. Canto does all that and more.
Great way to get organized!
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is very user-friendly and makes it super easy to share images and editing needs company-wide.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing not to like about this software! It's easy to use and a great way to stay organized.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solves the problem of independent freedom by allowing different team members to be able to find what they are looking for without having to ask the organizer. If the assets are correctly tagged then anyone can find what they need with ease.
Canto is Perfect for Asset Management
What do you like best about the product?
Canto delivers on it's promise to simply handle assets in a clear, concise manner that is easily searchable. The keyword functionality is spot on, and the version control is exactly what we need.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the price we would expect Canto to allow us to have more user accounts, especially when it comes to 3rd party logins for vendors who simply just want to one time data dump assets from things such as a photo shoot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Canto all of our assets were on separate hard drives scattered across multiple employees. Now, all of our assets are stored in one place where we can easily find them and see the latest versions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Contact their team for a live demo and play with it for a week. You'll find it's super intuitive, easy to use, and very versitile!
Canto did a great job at LDRLY
What do you like best about the product?
GD connectivity (direct upload of files), look & feel, how easy it is to use it, shareability and searchability of the files
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably some issues with the speed of GD sync, easier download function and I'd love few UI customization options (but this is really personal)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having all our files in one place, easy way to search for the files, share them internally and with outside partners
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great platform to sort out your files and have an easy access to them. Search and tagging functions are excellent!
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