Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Excellent marketing file organization
What do you like best about the product?
Assets can be clearly organized into meaningful folders with custom tags for easy searching. The ability to see images of the assets as well in the main viewing panel allows for much easier identification of needed assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to be able to drag and drop folders or files instead of having to select them individually and then scroll down in the options to select the folder to move the asset to. It is a little cumbersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are much more organized as a department now. It is so easy to share assets with external vendors for printing or sharing. Upload links are also very easy to create. All the admin features are very nice.
Client able to focus on value-added creative work with Canto
What do you like best about the product?
Portals are our Client's favorite feature. It enables the Client to stop spending time responding to internal and external requests for assets. The upload links allow the Client to receive assets from external parties in one organized location. Any somewhat tech savvy employee can become an administrator. The admin panel is feature rich, yet the layout makes it very easy to use. Categorization and terms do not require a computer science degree to administer. Configuration can be completed without needing to engage technical support. For PowerUsers and end-users, it could hardly be made simpler. Canto has struck a nice balance between the familiarity of the folder structure and the efficacy of metadata. I think they found a sweet spot that accommodates the vast majority of users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The project management-related capability is not as robust in Canto as it is in some competitor products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
. The Client was able to move from a multiple on-premise drives and cloud storage services to one consolidated repository for their marketing assets. The Client was able to move from relying on multiple folder structures to a comprehensive tagging and keywording organization system. The Client was able to move from spending much of their time searching for assets, sharing them, and receiving them, to a self-serve model that enables collaboration and sharing of assets inside and outside their organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would check whether your organization intends to rely heavily on a workflow that includes task assignment. If so, Canto may not meet your needs. For any organization that is not overly complex (fewer than 1000 employees, ballpark), and that does not intend to manage project tasks in Canto, I highly recommend this product.
Senior Marketing Specialist
What do you like best about the product?
I love the user friendly experience and the ability to organize thousands of creative assets in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at this time. It has been a very positive experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to keep things efficient as well as highly organized.
Canto can do it all
What do you like best about the product?
We use Canto as a repository for our work. It's great in providing a one place for everyone from the team to access whatever assets they may need. It's critical for a company with large teams of people.
What do you dislike about the product?
Moving and creating folders and albums can take some time, it's rather slow. Also, tagging is too manual. I wish it weren't. Shortcuts would be extremely helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
How to find assets throughout the institution without having to bother and ask other people from different teams. It's a central hub where you can find anything and everything at a very pleasant, seamless way.
Powerful search and organization capabilities in a clean, simple interface
What do you like best about the product?
Clean interface. Powerful search functionality. The ability to quickly and easily create collections or "portals" to distribute assets.
Also love that you can add one file to several different locations withouyt file duplication.
Also love that you can add one file to several different locations withouyt file duplication.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it retained the connection between InDesign files and its linked files when uploading. You can relink after uploading, but it doesnt always bring the graphics back into place at the correct position/size.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We now have a much more professional way of giving file access to our internal sales force and dealer network. We can also see the great potential for more efficient creation of design documents.
Canto is great for organizing a large image library and sharing with others
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has great albums and folders to organize everything you need by photo shoot, photographer, keywords, etc. Creating outward facing albums is a little complicated, but makes it very easy to send files/links to outward facing clients. Their templating system is also extremely helpful to keep us on brand. It's a little non-intuitive to create and upload the templates, but easy once you learn the system.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their templating system is through a third party vendor, so when my team had issues with this system earlier this year, there were extra steps required to get the issues addressed. Canto was very helpful and apologetic, but it did take extra time while we were on a deadline.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our most difficult problem is getting new and great photos to outward facing clients in a timely fashion. We currently have a private server we keep all of our images from photo shoots on, but we need to be able to share those easily and quickly. Canto helps us store, organize, and share these images much more efficiently. It makes sharing images across teams quicker as well.
Improve Workflow with Canto
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has robust search-ability, makes every day more efficient, and is a professional way to share assets externally. It is user friendly, and makes it easy to upload, tag, download, and share assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing - I've found it to be incredibly user friendly and have all the features I need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Streamlined asset management and sharing. Improved asset sharing externally.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Build a robust tagging taxonomy, and have a plan for asset organization going into implementation.
Can Do with Canto
What do you like best about the product?
The Canto application is flexible and easy to use. In addition to ease of use and flexibility, maintaining and modifying permissions, users, and other areas are extremely easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I found very little Canto I didn't particularly like; the only changes I would probably make would be a more simplistic interface for some of our basic users. But having worked with Canto for 5+ years, I've seen them make some pretty significant changes, so honestly, it's probably only a matter of time before they make modifications to simplify the interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest issue is sharing videos and high-quality images with my team members. Canto allows us to do this dynamically as a data asset management system. It also allows us to tag the contents with clean metadata. It's very searchable. These factors have increased our ability to deploy web and social media content, share files with many programs, and work with local and national media organizations.
Great Dam for marketing teams!
What do you like best about the product?
- Great and supportive customer service
- Keywords and metadata make it extremely easy to filter through assets
- Easy to share the files externally and internally
- Keywords and metadata make it extremely easy to filter through assets
- Easy to share the files externally and internally
What do you dislike about the product?
- Slow platform and occasional glitches
- The UX design and platform user-friendliness is not the greatest
- The UX design and platform user-friendliness is not the greatest
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto is used mostly by our marketing team for storing assets and filtering through files. It makes it quicker and easier to search for images, as well as share the files with agencies and other teams.
Everything in one place.
What do you like best about the product?
We love having all of our usable photography accessible in one place. The searchability is very robust. Finding and creating a customized asset set to share is very easy and very fast. And the Smart Tags have come in very handy!
What do you dislike about the product?
Cropping and resizing is not as intuitive as it could be, so it ends up being a feature that no one else uses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Canto empowers other team members to search and find their own approved assets. It also makes sharing assets incredibly easy.
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