Canto

Great visual product and storage solution aside from a few small inconveniences

Kommentare: Overall we had a good experience—the sales team was helpful, the onboarding team not-so-much (which we passed that feedback on accordingly and they listened), so it took my team a little while to get fully up and running using Canto. Now we have fully implemented it across our organization, and I hope Canto continues to grow and improve the product because we hope to use it for years to come.

Vorteile:

I love the visual layout of the product—another competitor we were considering had a terrible UI / UX and that is really important to my marketing team who is very visual! Also we loved the search feature and the tagging.

Nachteile:

The way the app loads on a MacBook Retina makes it look a little low quality / not the highly resolution of software design. That part makes it feel a little cheap to be honest? Also I don't like that Canto will reload on you at random times (automatically refresh your browser page), even if you were in the middle of a long scrolled search for specific imagery. It will lose your place and have you start over.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: PhotoShelter for Brands

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Canto: For the UI / UX - and the visual search. The layout and overall experience just felt easier, and I needed this product to be well-used by team members who don't have time or need to learn a new tool. PhotoShelter felt slightly more advanced, and was more expensive, and was also more complicated.

Honest review of Canto

Kommentare: We've had a good experience with Canto. The best part is the company listens to its users and creates new features based off of the input. I have been responsible for a number of features in recent releases.

Vorteile:

Canto is very well designed and easy to navigate.

Nachteile:

Everything can always be cheaper, but Canto prices are competitive.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Bynder

Warum Canto gewählt wurde: Dropbox didn't give us enough features.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Dropbox Business

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Canto: Canto had a better implementation of it's features. Plus, Canto makes it easy to share assets internally and externally.

Canto's renewal policy

Vorteile:

Ease of use, organization, and the tag lines.

Nachteile:

We have been a customer of Cantos for years at $10,000/year, when we needed to cancel we were told that we had missed the 30 day advance renewal timeframe by 12 days including weekends.

Canto is a step ahead and in some ways almost too good to be true!

Kommentare: My overall experience with Canto up to now is amazing! We have made it possible to combine information from all our company departments and combine them to be helpful to anyone needing something.
There is not much else out there that will be any better or do any more for you. Its perks are endless and they stand behind their software!

Vorteile:

There are many things that I like best about Canto, but I will definitely say I love that our ability to store and access so much more data and information and be able to access it easier is a huge plus! I love the Canto has the ability to upload and view any type of file you may throw at it, CAD/DWG was a big surprise to me but super exciting! I like that Canto has fantastic security behind it and that our information is safe. I like that you are able to give permissions and restrict certain or specific files and information. I also love that you have the ability to enter in so many different tags for one document, file or photo. It makes it much easier to search for because we all know that different people will describe something a little different each time!

Nachteile:

I wish that Canto was a little brighter when it came to the "smart tags" that it automatically gives when you upload a document or photo. I think there are alot more "common" words or descriptions that could be added to its vocabulary. It would be very helpful for the unexperienced uploader or the person who just isn't good at describing things. It certainly takes some training to navigate and use properly, and you have to get used to how they refer to things differently.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: MediaValet, PhotoShelter for Brands und Brandfolder

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Canto: Because honestly, to our team members, there doesn't seem to be anything else out there that will be any better or do any more for us in terms of what we are needing. Its perks are endless and they stand behind their software!

Great Value DAM

Vorteile:

The ability to create custom fields, manage our database, and our workflows.

Nachteile:

There were some difficulties getting our previous library and the data associated with each asset moved over. However once we got that done it has been a much better library experience than our old DAM.