The Advantages of Canto Cumulus
The need for true digital asset management sneaks up on you just when you think you’re doing fine managing files on your favorite operating system.
It happens all the time.
After all, you know where everything is, and you know the status of it all. Then along comes a new coworker. You show her where everything is, and she asks questions as needed. Before you know it, you have an entire work group on board. It’s a good thing you thought to document your workflows and storage strategies, because now all that information is needed.
Then, of course, you get busy. There’s no time to update your how-to document, and there's no time to fix the things that no longer work:
- The email attachments mail servers reject
- The production files your clients can’t open
- The approvals you’ve been waiting on for far too long
- The missing fonts your customer wants you to send
- The projects that are late because no one knew they were due
- The brochure that was ruined because “BrochureCopy-Final.doc” turned out to not be as final as “BrochureCopy-Final2.doc”
If you’re lucky, you won’t mistakenly use a file you weren’t licensed to use. And if you’re really lucky, you’ll have back-ups of all your files when the server crashes, and you’ll know the exact production status of every file.
Feeling lucky?
If you’re smart, you’ll avoid all these troubles in the first place through the use of Canto Cumulus.
Click on the uses cases below to see a comparison chart demonstrating how your workflows can be simplified when they’re based on smart digital asset management with Canto Cumulus.
> Move files through production
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> Find a file, without knowing where to look
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> Get web-ready version of high-res Photoshop file
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Canto Cumulus helps you quickly and easily develop and manage the workflows you need to remain productive, get to lunch on time, and actually take your vacation.
More than 14,000 Cumulus Servers have been sold, and more than 1,000,000 user licenses have been distributed in the product line’s nearly 20-year history.
And virtually every time a new Cumulus system is installed, a file server is retired.
