Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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An Impressive Asset Manager
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and intuitiveness of the tool has been super helpful. There are so many useful features that can be adapted to fit any team. Once you get Canto up and running for your team you can truly make it your own. The simple way to use custom features such as fields, tags and even portals has been very useful for our team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Since there are so many features and customization options, it can be a little overwhelming at first what setting up Canto. It took my team a while to set up our ideal instance and implement fully with Canto. There aren't many implementation guides that I could give to my team either. Once your in Canto the easiest way to learn it is just be spending time with the tool and playing around with the different features that it has.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used to have an issue with finding documents and keeping all our materials in one collective location.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be prepared to do a lot of front end set up. Administrators should be familiar with Cantos configuration system before implementing so that it can quickly be up and running.
Canto: The Team Member You Need
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has provided a centralized hub for our teams to collaborate on projects. It has also made our IT team happy by eliminating the need for duplicate files on shared drives that waste space and cause confusion. Having files that are organized correctly streamlines our projects and -- especially during the pandemic -- allows for team members to access correct files when working from home instead of needing a VPN connection to work drives. It has been a game changer across departments. Power users mostly reside in the Marketing, Communications and Business Development teams. Canto's Customer Service has been the best I've experienced by any of our vendors. Our account rep is proactive in staying in contact and making sure we are getting the most out of the platform. Canto also releases new (free) or upgraded functionality quarterly -- sometimes more than that. I feel like they really have their finger on their clients pulses and what they most need and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only issue we've had in our two year history is when renewing our contract, Canto had previously changed the pricing structure from price per item to bulk packaging of functionality. Luckily, the staff was very patient in walking us through the new structure and we are very happy to have signed a multi-year contract with them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto saves time, keeps your teams organized and allows for clearer communications directly with your asset files. We have found great value in handling both our archival materials and current assets on the platform. Bonus -- items in cold storage are easy and quick to recall!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommend trying it and purchasing portals to add-on to your package. They have been wonderful in sharing assets with non-Canto team members or third-party partners. It's a one-stop shop.
Excellent platform // Minor Adjustments
What do you like best about the product?
Utilizing it as a way to show off approved assets, materials, inspiration that our designers can look back to and search is great! The tagging feature makes it easy to source and find exactly what you're looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that there's no bulk-upload option available makes uploading lots of data a drag. Especially if they all fall within the same category. We hate having to wait for multiple things to load and settling for individual uploads.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently using Canto as our personal Digital Design Library for designers to "shop" around or get inspo for current projects. The benefits are knowing that everything on this platform is pre-approved and good to use for any project if it fits the style/purpose.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really understand and categorize the types of files you'll be uploading. Having a list of things to start off and branch within helps (especially with the folders features!)
Good Search Capabilities, file structure and sharing
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is user friendly, easy to set up, and has a good search that is easy to understand and use. Their sharing is also great for internal and external file sharing
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited integration with Adobe suite which makes it difficult with easy design integration
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a file versioning issue before that is no longer present with using Canto. We were limited with how we shared files before with external vendors which often made it difficult to share large files. Searching was also a previous issue with files being difficult to find. Through the use of portals, we can create specialized areas for different teams where only files that are applicable to them live.
Canto Is a strong solution for anyone looking for a DAM
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has been easy to use and easy to get up and running. The simplicity of having all of our images in one place have been astronomical. The amount of time spent wasted looking for marketing images has been eliminated completely. That was our main purpose for selecting a DAM platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only bad thing I can say was our onboarding tech wasn't really the greatest. She just wasn't very with it on the training. She would retell us things that we just spoke about so it was wasting a bit of time during user training. She was good at follow up, but the training was meh. I would say have people other than the onboarding specialist reach out to make sure everything is going well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I think the amount of uses that we have found beyond our standard need case of storing and easily searching our large photos has been numerous. Easily sharing documents and links have been invaluable. Our training department is now using it to provide ongoing training to our teams, we have several portals for different use cases.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a look at all the options out there and really focus on what is most important for your use case. Then create a comparison guide and see for yourself. I did that and evaluated 6 different companies to narrow it down to two. It was easy as some fell off naturally. Canto offers a lot of benefits for the price, so I highly recommend you start there.
Canto is a huge time saver!
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has saved us countless hours of wasted time searching across departments, servers, and computers for assets that are needed daily. The use of customized portfolios has helped us allow our end users to peruse and search galleries customized to their needs, all while protecting assets that are internal-use only from being seen.
What do you dislike about the product?
Canto is great, but would love to see a feature to copy metadata/tagging to other new items inside of an album...but that isn't a dealbreaker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Huge time saver when searching assets... it's all in one place and searchable by tagging/etc.
Easy to navigate, lots of customization
What do you like best about the product?
1. Folders can be made private
2. Email or link images for people who request them
3. Easy to navigate UI
2. Email or link images for people who request them
3. Easy to navigate UI
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow loading thumbnails when viewing folders
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. It is easier to share images now
2. It is easier to keep track of photos to know when I need to schedule more and of what kind of photos to request from the photographer.
3. Private folders allow me to put up images that only certain departments have the rights to use
2. It is easier to keep track of photos to know when I need to schedule more and of what kind of photos to request from the photographer.
3. Private folders allow me to put up images that only certain departments have the rights to use
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to ask about customization if you don't see a feature or function that you're looking for. This is the best photo organizing site I've ever used. The sharing feature is really good if you get a lot of requests for images like I do.
Great product for asset organization
What do you like best about the product?
The folder separation for different assets and the ability to control who has access to which. I also like that the assets are shown in high quality and there is a very quick download time.
What do you dislike about the product?
There could be an easier way to add keywords and ways to find old assets. There could also be a larger number of individuals allowed to see hidden folders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sorting through a large number of assets and creatives to be used in different marketing efforts. It also is a great tool for sharing resources across different teams and different users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are working with a large number of assets, this tool will help streamline work for the entire team
Excellent Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and keeps my team organized. Uploading and downloading is super easy!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were a few more options for how things are searched. I find myself having trouble using the search tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everything is in one place. before Canto we would have multiple folders and colleagues were using outdated marketing pieces. Now we know we are using the most up to date collateral.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think it's fast and easy to use. Our team isn't the savviest but they learned this platform quickly.
Great hub for team sharing!
What do you like best about the product?
Love being able to access images and documents in one location. Canto houses all of our company's product imagery and videos for easy sharing and organization for our remote team.
What do you dislike about the product?
We do wish it was a little better at organization for our company in particular.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping all of our photos, videos, and documents in one place to share with our remote team.
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