Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Great Corporate Asset Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
The file structure and tagging capabilitys. Without having to do too much thinking the file organozation make sense to any viewer. It is always visable so the user can navigate where to look depending on the content they are searching for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The search function is not as accurate as it needs to be to find all the relatable files. For some users, they are not as familar with our file organization and would prefer to search for the items they need. In doing so not all the neccesary items appear. If the filter option was more obvious in the UX I think it would help the end user to be able to locate assets they may not know exisit but are releveant to their needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to maintain an updated brand by ensuring all assets are the most recent. By reducing the amount of locations we save final files we are able to mimize missuse of outdated, inaccurate or non-authroized file types. With being such a large company it is hard to notify all the neccesary parties when an update has been made. This way no matter when an indiviual needs collateral it will always be the most recent and easy to find.
Great place to put your assets
What do you like best about the product?
My organization is able to keep our assets in a safe, easy to manage, place. We store all types of files for internal and external use. Permissions for each user is easy to manage. The public portal is nice to have to provide assets to an external audience.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the Adobe Connect feature could be improved. It is nice to have. But I end up having to download the image if I need to convert to CMYK or make edits to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Marketing Department, the Library and Athletics Department now have one place to store photos easily. We can now easily search for marketing and archival scanned pictures for use in printed materials.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The on-boarding process was very easy and the ability to control user permissions and the public portals was the main selling point.
Bumpy start but smoothing out
What do you like best about the product?
The Ai is really great for quickly locating objects and people.
What do you dislike about the product?
AD integration costs extra, interface can be a bit clunky, syncing a large library of photos and videos can be problematic (avoid doing so from a mapped network drive)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Image sprawl and locating needed images was nearly impossible. The correct person with exact knowledge of the time, place and situation would have to be located to find specific pictures. Now with tagging, ai, and better organization the right assets are much more easily located.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really review your assets, where they are located, how large of a library you have and how you are going to get them into Canto.
Chosen for UX, Easy search, Visual Library
What do you like best about the product?
I like the overall UX—better than most, with similar sophistication and complexity of competitor products. The visual library is easy to navigate. Search function is really easy to use. Love the photo recognition and automatic tagging features. Photo recognition is really helping us document all the names of people we serve for easy searching.
What do you dislike about the product?
When you scroll in a search for too long, the page has trouble loading, and then will just reload your entire page/search. This loses your place in search, and is really unhelpful. It's like Canto doesn't have enough loading power to feature massive amounts of visuals on the screen at once. Display doesn't feel like it was coded for retina Mac screens—some things are slightly pixelated which makes the product look slightly lower quality.
The "scroll up" feature to view all the image data is odd.
The albums/folders structure is confusing, but their support team has been helpful with onboarding. I will say that the onboarding specialist we got paired with has been really unenthusiastic about her job, and we've had to press her to learn the things we need. Not very professional or polished compared to their sales team. BUT she has answered all of our questions, even if it was in a monotone voice that seemed very bored.
The "scroll up" feature to view all the image data is odd.
The albums/folders structure is confusing, but their support team has been helpful with onboarding. I will say that the onboarding specialist we got paired with has been really unenthusiastic about her job, and we've had to press her to learn the things we need. Not very professional or polished compared to their sales team. BUT she has answered all of our questions, even if it was in a monotone voice that seemed very bored.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have thousands of photo assets from 10+ years of international work that are sitting in various Dropbox/Google Drive folders. Adopting Canto will save us lots of time once we get everything uploaded. Excited to find assets quickly for creative, marketing, and fundraising needs, and have a general location and system for uploading/tagging new assets. After initial setup, this will save our team hours of searching Dropbox.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really explore inside the tool to see how you like using it. Negotiate for a deal on storage, users, and initial entry price. Appoint a project team to get your org set up on it—a lead and a few volunteers/helpers to import/tag all of your assets. Establish a clear organization system before you import assets. Ask the Canto team all the questions you have and don't hesitate to push them to help you.
Simple DAM that quickly solves asset management issues
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use and works in both a browser and a desktop app. It has previews for Adobe native files which helps a lot when looking for specific assets.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI isn't great — it's not easy to view + pull down assets quickly without "going into" them. The UX could definitely benefit from some tweaking, but no major issues blocking functionality.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company has a global presence and allowing all of our assets to be shared easily across the company is paramount. Canto is very lightweight and works across many devices, operating systems, etc. and is a simple solution to a functionality we required.
Great collaboration workspace
What do you like best about the product?
Awesome asset management tool to collaborate on with coworkers. Whether its within your team or collaborating with other teams, its the best way to keep all of the assets and comments/copy in one place. Before Canto, everything was done over email and messages/assets would be lost. With Canto, things are trackable and always in one place. The searchability function helps save so much time when lookin for specific tasks. love working in Canto!
What do you dislike about the product?
It is mostly user error, but when other coworkers comments directly to you but don't @name you, you won't get a notification of the comment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving a communication problem within our team and it has helped by keeping everything in one place
Great tool for Document control!
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to keep track of documents and very simple to upload and keep track of new versions. It is also very easy to tag and find pictures. I also love being able to download pictures in different formats and file sizes.
I love how easy it is to share assets with those outside of the company. The link feature is great, and I also love using the sorting feature.
Having the tags section is awesome to be able to customize Canto for us to make it easy to search for items.
I also like how you can restrict access to certain types of users so that some assets are only available to the administrators.
It is very nice being able to have one asset in multiple different albums. This makes it much easier to find assets for everyone, as multiple spots are usually good options to keep an asset.
I love how easy it is to share assets with those outside of the company. The link feature is great, and I also love using the sorting feature.
Having the tags section is awesome to be able to customize Canto for us to make it easy to search for items.
I also like how you can restrict access to certain types of users so that some assets are only available to the administrators.
It is very nice being able to have one asset in multiple different albums. This makes it much easier to find assets for everyone, as multiple spots are usually good options to keep an asset.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish updates to the website happened instantly. Not a huge downer, but something that would make it closer to perfect!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This helps us control our documents on the website and to ensure that other employees have the most up to date marketing materials. We have realized that Canto can be used for many things. Document control, sharing images/documents, and uploading items to our website.
We have realized that it is a great tool to share documents and pictures when the file is to large to share in an email. It is great because you can customize the access that the recipient has.
We have realized that it is a great tool to share documents and pictures when the file is to large to share in an email. It is great because you can customize the access that the recipient has.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I am learning new things about Canto everyday. There are always new ways to be utilizing Canto. It is a very great tool to help you stay organized and it is extremely customizable. We have a large number of assets and a large number of products and this is our most organized and easy to use tool!
If you have questions reach out to the support team. They are looking to help you!
If you have questions reach out to the support team. They are looking to help you!
Saved countless hours searching.
What do you like best about the product?
The upload link has allowed us to require photographers to apply their metadata before uploading. This saves us many hours tagging images ourselves and allows users to search for specific images quickly. Having custom landing pages for partners has allowed our partnership team to share media quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
While viewing all photos while scrolling several pages down, you are sent back to the top of the list after viewing a specific image.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having key project leads within our organization able to search all media and content for quick review or sharing has sped up workflow 100%.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you create a lot of media and need to share with multiple people, this tool far outperforms Dropbox or other file-sharing programs.
Canto is an amazing platform that gives us more time back in our days!
What do you like best about the product?
We love that Canto makes it so easy to keyword, tag, and describe each photo we own to make it easier for us to find them in the future. The facial recognition is an amazing feature for Canto.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have found it challenging to find time to upload the photos and add the tags, so we have a volunteer coming in to help us with this. It is a lot of initial work to set up Canto but it is definitely worth it!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Canto to make it easier for us to label photos and search for them easily down the road. We realized how much time it takes to find a photo in our dropbox and needed this platform to give us more time in our workday.
Canto is a big yes from us
What do you like best about the product?
We love the customer service, the clean modern design interface, and the ease of use and implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far there is nothing we dislike from Canto.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously we used Google Docs and that did not have enough organization for us. Canto has a much better organization usability. It's also provides a wow factor with the customizable portals that we have created for each of our branches.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use, fast responsive fun customer service from everybody. Implementation was very organized and easy. It looks fantastic and is very impressive to our clients.
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