Canto

Avantages

Canto peut directement connecté à Photoshop ce qui facilite grandement nos travaux de retouche. Le service marketing de l'entreprise se sert tous les mois de Canto, avec succès.

Inconvénients

Pour ce que nous avons besoin de faire (stockage, gestion et retouche des images), Canto répond bien à l'ensemble des demandes; il est peut être simplement un peu cher sur la durée.

Avantages

Ce logiciel est un outil Dam ( Digital Asset Management ) . Il est également un système de gestion de contenu et de marketing. Il est aussi un logiciel de branding.

Inconvénients

Ce logiciel n'a aucun inconvénient à signaler aux proches.

Avantages

easy to use for managing assets, configuring the library and portals

Inconvénients

Thesaurus (list) management and DRM management

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Avantages

It's hard for me to even pick! We are coming from a very limited system, so the tagging and search capabilities have been a huge time save for my team. I also love the ability to have photos in multiple albums, the upload links are great, and the system is really easy to navigate.

Inconvénients

The portals landing pages are a little limited in design capabilities, but nothing that would make me not want to use the system.

Avantages

It’s easy to use and fairly intuitive. The filter system is very powerful. Love the portals.

Inconvénients

The choice of ‘views’ you get is limited. Some of our products are pens and rulers and the ‘list view’ thumbnails are too small to see what the product looks like. The other views show only cropped images of the product if it is beyond a certain size, making it impossible to see what the product actually is. It also has numerous bugs, such as not being able to display a greyscale image if it is saved as a .psd. Also, another wonderful fact of Canto is its portals, and we have a need to set up a great deal for our distributors. However, each one has to be created manually even though 95% of them are all the same. There should be a template facility to copy.

Avantages

CANTO is very easy to set up and customise. The upload functions are logical and my users manage to find content after minimal training. As an admin, I have access to a lot of reporting and fine-tuning, without it being overwhelming. The customer service is also exceptionally well organised and friendly.

Inconvénients

There are very few locations worldwide where CANTO is not available. Unfortunately one of the countries my organisation works in is one of those locations.
Also, when we first started to use CANTO, price development was not always clear to us.

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Avantages

It has been a useful tool to use as a team that all work remotely and share assets. It has meant we have been able to have better oversight over the content that we work with, and be able to share and collaborate on them.

Inconvénients

We have raised this a few times, but the lack of working plug-in for our Wordpress system has been a point of discussion since we've joined. It also occasionally crashes at the same place of the process (e.g. during upload) and would be ideal to be worked out of the user experience.

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Avantages

It's been really simple to use, and the onboarding service was great!

Inconvénients

Sometimes it can be unresponsive when uploading. I've not been particularly impressed by the adobe connector too, its not been useful at all. The portal customization user interface could also do with some work - it is really not very clear on how to change colours, move titles, get rid of unwanted buttons, etc. I love the feature and its what helped initially sell the product, but it could really do with UI improvements. It would also be great to not have the chequered background on album covers for vector images - we use them as covers and I don't want to clog up the album with a custom made icon in the album.

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Avantages

Advanced search tools, easy to use, good interface.

Inconvénients

I'd like to be able to add extra margin to the images in the download options: a crop tool with the possibility to add space, not just cut.

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Avantages

I appreciate the ability to tag objects, store related information, and recognize faces. [sensitive content hidden] has been very helpful, and checking in with him to find out what's happening with Canto never feels like work. The fact that there appears to be an answer to every query I could possibly have impresses me greatly; such materials must have been painstakingly compiled.

Inconvénients

Working with a single sign-on login can be perplexing for those who are only visiting your site and not contributing or consuming content. Less technically competent users may be confused by the steps required to clear cookies and restart the browser.

Avantages

The easy way for us to keep everything organized as a company

Inconvénients

Sometimes create links can be a little challenging

Avantages

Very easy to use and very easy to setup.

Inconvénients

Performance can be slow when accessing larger files or when using limited connectivity, which can hinder productivity on the go.

Avantages

1. Canto team was very supportive during the onboarding process
2. Endless possibilities with tagging images
3. Ability to use directly in Adobe products with plug-in

Inconvénients

1. No uncheck all feature
2. Issues with uploading large batch of files

Avantages

Easy to set up and intuitive to ease. It was incredibly easy to implement across the organisation for internal and external stakeholders. Canto delivered on its promise.

Inconvénients

Very little to dislike, perhaps if it was more focused on the hospitality industry it could build integrations with other elements of the Martech stack.

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Avantages

Canto helps organize our thousands of digital assets. We especially like that we can upload photos, videos, music, and Adobe files. It is helpful as a photo library but also in project collaboration.

Inconvénients

Canto is not terribly user friendly. Customer service is great and is eager to help you, but some features are buried and if not in frequent use you'll find yourself asking for help for the same tasks.

Avantages

Does the job as a digital asset management tool, even if it's not the most pleasant to use

Inconvénients

Not very user-friendly. Search is not great, it's very difficult to find what you need

Avantages

Ease of single uploads, tagging to enable search, multi-folder assignment, deduplication, portal creation

Inconvénients

Difficulty in bulk upload, downloading buggy, no mobile app version

Avantages

I like that Canto is on top of their game, always improving the software and releasing updates. When a feature isn't particularly user-friendly, you can put in a ticket for a suggested improvement and they will consider it in a future release.

Inconvénients

It's a little hard to use for the general user, those who aren't power users. I had to draft up instructions on our to use the software for our general employee base.

Avantages

Canto's user-friendly interface allows for an easy, intuitive platform to host, organize, and share all of our digital assets. Having something that is so intuitive puts all team members at ease, and increases their implementation of the platform in their day-to-day work.

Inconvénients

Canto divides its users between three levels: Admin, Collaborator, and Consumer. There is very little that you can't do in Canto. A fully customizable experience for Administrative and Collaborator level users means a great deal of your DAM needs are met.

I do feel that the Consumer-level experience can be expanded further, for example: with regards to facial recognition, a Consumer-level user is more than capable of identifying faces within a photograph, but the current constraints of the consumer level does not allow for this level of data input. Overall, this dynamic spark of the Canto platform is sometimes lost at the Consumer-level.

Avantages

It is very user-friendly. It's visual and easy to navigate. It has great search and filter features. You can send people directly to an asset without giving them access to everything.

Inconvénients

You can upload a separate cover image; you have to use one that is already in your library; it has to be an actual asset. This is difficult if your fold of assets only contains font or color libraries, the thumbnails have no visual.

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Avantages

We use Canto for campus-wide digital asset management. Our Marketing and PR team manages the application, which helps us distribute photos and videos to our campus departments and news media. We find it especially helpful for organizing and distributing athletics-related content. It is also helpful for organizing photos and videos for easy retrieval.

Inconvénients

The application is sometimes laggy, but the Canto team is super responsive.

Avantages

Portals - We have customers and distributors all over the world this portal aspect will help us manage their content they are receiving and eliminate the bottleneck of people across the world having to wait a whole day to hear from us with assets.

Inconvénients

The option to make a single file downloadable or not. We have some highly sensitive files and some we don't want people to be able to download but be able to look at. So it would be nice if we could make a single file not downloadable. They do have other options like terms of use or watermarks but it be nice if that was a feature. You could do this but only in bulk, so you'd have to make all files not downloadable.

Avantages

The flexibility of deployment and implementation was paramount for our organization, as we ended up hosting the solution on premise due to our large file sizes. We love how the metadata is written back to the asset. Additionally, the various ways to access the assets through the web, through apps or through a desktop client made the user adoption go very smoothly.

Inconvénients

Customizing the software during the installation and implementation phase was more time consuming than we had anticipated and with the new releases of software and portals we have encountered some delays and hiccups (we are working through them). Out of the "box" reporting is significantly lacking compared to the other options, but you can buy a 3rd party addin for that.

Avantages

The three major items that drove us to choose Canto as our DAM were the friendly and effective customer service, their ease of setup and customization, and their constant drive to update and make their software better. Both our account manager and the Canto IT team are quick to respond and always willing to do what is needed to help us achieve what we need.

Inconvénients

We had some issues early on in the setup/implementation phase as we didn't feel like we were provided with adiquate information as to what was needed for our trainings. However, once we got into the process things became more clear and everything went smoothly.

Avantages

Overall, Canto is easy to use. The tagging and categorisation options are extensive and have made the whole process to manage content much more efficient for our organization. The portal functionality is also a nice way for us to be able to share content with external partners.

Inconvénients

Some of the interfaces are not so intuitive, particularly when it comes to sharing video and PDF files with external partners. It was not obvious how files could be downloaded