Canto
About Canto
Canto is the leading digital asset management (DAM) solution for organizations worldwide. Canto's centralized content hub provides a single source of truth for managing an organization's entire content lifecycle. The platform offers a robust set of features to streamline digital asset management, including AI-powered search capabilities that enable users to quickly find the right asset. Canto's streamlined distribution tools expand the reach of content, allowing teams to share assets more efficiently. The platform also facilitates effortless collaboration, accelerating time-to-market through instant access and seamless workflows.
In addition to its powerful DAM capabilities, Canto now offers a comprehensive product information management (PIM) solution. This new offering empowers organizations to centrally manage all their product data, ensuring a consistent and up-to-date view of product information across the enterprise. Canto's PIM solution integrates seamlessly with the platform's DAM capabilities, providing a unified solution for managing an organization's entire content ecosystem.
Canto's intuitive user interface, advanced search and filtering tools, and countless integrations with popular business applications make it a versatile and user-friendly platform. Customers have reported significant improvements in their digital asset management processes, including faster content delivery to global markets, streamlined workflows, and a more collaborative experience for internal teams as well as external partners and vendors. With Canto, organizations can unlock the full potential of their digital assets and drive greater content ROI.
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
the DAM that has changed my life forever
Reviewed on 2023/07/06
The ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team has transformed the way we work...
The ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team has transformed the way we work together. No more communication delays or confusion about which file to edit.
Pros
The first thing I should mention is its organizational functions. I can easily categorize, tag, and search all my images, videos, and documents with just a few clicks. No more wasting time searching through endless folders! But that's not all, the ability to share and collaborate in real time with my team is just amazing.
Cons
The first thing I should mention is the price. Oh my gosh, that's a bit excessive! I understand that quality comes at a cost, but I think Canto could consider more affordable options for small businesses or start-ups.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Canto is Great!
Reviewed on 2021/05/05
Pros
First of all, having a single source of truth is truly a game changer. Having that one file that is mirrored in other places makes having to edit it so much simpler. Additionally, the Portals are such a nice feature so that we can "share" our assets, specific ones, to different vendors or departments within our organization takes a lot of the mundane aspects of our previous requests off our plates. There are truly so many things I love about Canto and these are just a small taste of them.
Cons
We are using Canto in the hopes that it can serve us in several ways. One area that we would like to see is more of a desktop app that functions similar to Dropbox in that we can access our files in our Finder vs. the Canto Connector for Adobe. Also, the ability to be more granular with our user permissions and rights management. And more customization with the Presets as well as the ability to designate the Focal Spot on an image. (We have lots of ideas to help improve and add to Canto but these are the top ones)
Reasons for Switching to Canto
While most of the products were by and large the same, it came down to the User Interface, the details in the features, the customer service, and the price. Canto has been incredibly helpful and supportive from day 1.- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Canto is not the best, but better than nothing
Reviewed on 2018/09/20
Canto helps our team manage thousands of photos for our business as well as share with our teams...
Canto helps our team manage thousands of photos for our business as well as share with our teams around the globe. Overall, Canto is better than nothing, but certainly the budget level service and frustrating at times. You get what you pay for.
Pros
Canto is way better than trying to sort through photos on Finder or Dropbox. You can tag images and put them in folders and search for key words. I like that you can also sort by pending/approved/rejected. It helps us keep photos organized by style, season, color, etc. I like that you can share folders with certain people.
Cons
The software is not very intuitive. The sorting by date hardly works, it is very finicky. The "zoom" boxes are more distracting than useful. Portals don't sync well. Portals should have more granular access and control. The interface is basic at best. Text runs off the screen, menus don't actually expand. Certain email providers can't get access.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Saves time - very easy to collaborate + share and receive files online
Reviewed on 2020/09/28
Pros
Several features have really simplified my photo management role. Metadata is customizable to your needs - and while it takes careful thought initially, when set up is easy to apply. 'Upload links' allow outside people to add photography directly to the system in a controlled manner - this has significantly helped with timeliness and ease of receiving photography. I love the branding portal, and the versioning capabilities. I also love the Facial Recognition feature - no more tagging the same people over and over. The company consistently improves the software and innovates - releasing frequent feature updates.
Cons
While it is fairly intuitive, there are aspects (of the portals for example) that need to be explained to a new user - this can be time consuming. I have been frustrated that new features are sometimes expensive paid add-ons, even when they were discussed as 'coming' during the research process (features I thought would be included with upcoming releases). As much as possible, try to envision future features you will need and consider that in your contract discussions.
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We needed a more innovative software with greater flexibility, collaboration, and time-saving features. Also, to make it accessible to we wanted more user accounts.Reasons for Switching to Canto
They customized the contract to our meet our needs and budget. We needed a lot of user accounts to make it accessible to our internal community.- Industry: Music
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Versatile and easy to use DAM with great features and product support
Reviewed on 2021/11/15
The business problem that we were trying to solve with Canto was the presence of disparate data and...
The business problem that we were trying to solve with Canto was the presence of disparate data and media availability, depending on the author. Media was being shared inconsistently across the organization and needed to be accessed in various ways instead of having one standardized way of working with our digital assets. Canto has essentially solved those problems completely internally, with the added benefit of being available to be used to share assets outside of our internal team.
Pros
The features available within Canto are well designed and well implemented. We needed a solution for managing various types of digital assets for different use cases, and Canto fit the bill exactly. In addition to the great product, Canto's implementation and support teams were fantastic and helped our implementation to go extremely smoothly.
Cons
There is very little to dislike about Canto. All of the features promised to us during the sales cycle were available, and we found no "gotchas" or surprises. We could have used some more guidance about how/when to use the Portals feature, but that ended up being a minor issue in our case.
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Below are some frequently asked questions for Canto.Q. What type of pricing plans does Canto offer?
Canto offers the following pricing plans:
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Canto?
Canto has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Canto support?
Canto supports the following languages:
Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai
Q. Does Canto support mobile devices?
Canto supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Canto integrate with?
Canto integrates with the following applications:
Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Workfront, Box, Canva, Dropbox Business, Drupal, Egnyte, Figma, Google Analytics 360, Google Chrome, Google Drive, Greenfly, LinkedIn Jobs, Mailchimp, Marq, Meta for Business, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word, OneDrive, Pinterest, Slack, TYPO3, Twitter/X, Vimeo, WordPress, Wrike, YouTube, Zapier, monday.com
Q. What level of support does Canto offer?
Canto offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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