Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Workflow Improved!
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many features that it can accommodate a variety of users. Where I use certain features, someone else on our team likes to use another.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a small learning curve but once you understand it becomes easy. The biggest con in my opinion is the layout of some of the features (settings, menus, etc.). There is room for improvement, especially to make things even more efficient for the user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had several issues with the server system, but mostly because sharing content was overly complicated. Now, with Canto, it's so easy. I often laugh at the technically barbaric method we used to use.
A great software for organizing digital assets
What do you like best about the product?
The search tool is great and has recently integrated smart tagging which I love.
What do you dislike about the product?
My only challenge currently is that our previews of the images are not clear as the original, so it's sometimes difficult to assess quality. I have yet to discuss it with the team and I'm sure they will offer a solution when I do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto allows our team to contribute photo and video to our archive across multiple locations. As a designer, it is a convenient way for me to organize and curate the best of our images.
Dynamic DAM platform
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is very flexible and adaptable platform that has really streamlined our workflows and made our materials accessible to our statewide staff across three different offices. It's also made it a much simpler process to search and find good visual assets for various needs, and to share out photo and video documentation with back to artists we work with easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is cost-prohibitive for smaller organizations, but the investment has been an important one for our organization in really taking good care of our cataloging and accessing our media assets. We do wish there was a function to batch-rename a group of files, tho.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto has been an important and daily tool for the professionalization of our workflows, and helped us develop meaningful care for our archival materials.
Canto for Marketing
What do you like best about the product?
First, it's beautiful and easy to use. We have a lot of designers on our team and Canto is the best looking platform, we reviewed. Also, since we are able to do more in Canto, we aren't wasting time find things in email or Slack.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few features I wish it had. Luckily the team at Canto listens to their client's requests and work hard to implement them. Every new release has included some feature we asked for!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's clear what assets we are referring to and we have a much cleaner file system. Team members aren't lost and are confident they are looking at the correct assets.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be patient with the migration, especially if you have a lot of data to transfer.
Put time into organizing folders, so you don't have to make adjustments after you go live.
Put time into organizing folders, so you don't have to make adjustments after you go live.
Best DAM product on the market
What do you like best about the product?
It has many great features so it's hard to select just one but I work with a lot of photographers who contract with our company. Being able to provide them a link to upload their images directly into Canto is a time saver!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the download icon was larger and easier to find. This has been a problem from day one and it's still not being addressed. I often have to help our users figure out how to download. I also had to draft detailed instructions with screenshots on how to use Canto for our general users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to control which images the regular employee sees and downloads and which images we can restrict from general view and only allow select employees to see. Our metadata is better, the Smart Tags are helpful and easy to adjust if they're not hitting the mark just right, workspace feature is awesome for our review process. We're getting images in a consistent and efficient process (instead of every photographer having their own upload product), we're giving employees several options for downloading images (cropping, resizing, selecting RGB or CMYK, compressing), we can share images and "lightboxes" and the entire process is so much better than what we had before, which was an internally created application.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Request a sandbox be setup so your selection committee can fully test the product out. This option was a game changer for us. It gave us the ability to fully understand how the product worked and gave us the appropriate questions to ask when we needed help understanding how all the features worked. We had video sessions with our selection team and Canto reps who spent time answering our questions, demoing the product and screen sharing.
Simple digital asset management system
What do you like best about the product?
Love the ease of use and customization. We especially love the public portal feature, where we can create collections of pre-approved content for internal and external stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish there was an easier way to identify restricted assets when in thumbnail view. We have to pull high numbers of assets on a daily basis and sometimes you need to include a combination of approved and restricted assets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better photo management. We were using a computer filing system prior to moving to Canto. We are now able to search for assets with keywords and tags. We can also now access everything remotely!
Great organizational creative platform
What do you like best about the product?
Canto has been an amazing experience for us to refine our creative process and collaborate! We love all of the features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing! The site is great to work with. We're happy with the new features being added, as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our team collaborate! The organizational capacities, especially the tagging features, make searching for and finding the content we're looking for much easier. The amount of choice and flexibility we have with Canto is a great feature, as well.
Canto is D.A.M. Good
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and accessibility of the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Little to dislike but would be interesting to have a greater degree of brand customization w/in the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been using Canto now for over two years as our one-stop-shop for all of our forward-facing brand assets. From imagery to videos and logos to digital catalogs, Canto has helped our business share these crucial files with our partners who need them.
Digital Asset Management - Organization At Its Finest
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to customize for my business. It's clean, but also flexible. I also like that I can share content with more than just my team. I can create links for client and allow clients to share content with us, which makes it much easier to send and receive assets. Not only does it help with client relations, but it also helps us internally. When we have assets that need to be shared across the team, it's so much easier to just put everything in Canto, as opposed to constantly have to email images around. I can't recommend it enough.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do wish there was an easier way to share links to clients, but I see they are adding a drag feature, so it might be easier here soon! I also wish it prompted you to set up your preferences when my role was set up, but that is super nit-picky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're able to share images with clients and internally. Clients are able to add photos to their own folders at their leisure and we can easily access them and edit them within the platform, which is awesome. Not only does it help with client relations, but it also helps us internally. When we have assets that need to be shared across the team, it's so much easier to just put everything in Canto, as opposed to constantly have to email images around. I can't recommend it enough.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you work with clients, if you have a team that frequently share assets and you have trouble keeping everything organized, I highly recommend Canto. Not only does it help with client relations, but it also helps us internally. When we have assets that need to be shared across the team, it's so much easier to just put everything in Canto, as opposed to constantly have to email images around. I can't recommend it enough.
Best D.A.M. system out there.
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and very secure. Originals stay in the Vault and are safe from users changes/removal. Key wording and meta data are easy to set up and use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slight learning curve. Some users who are not familiar with DAM systems may has a slow start but do get up and running soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I implemented Canto into the design workflow at Honda R&D about 15 years ago to manage our tens of thousands of film and digital files of cars, motorcycles. We needed a secure way to store and retrieve our assets , Canto was the solution. I have since helped Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center implement Canto to manage their image assets.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canto has a discount for Nonprofits.
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