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Edition Contents

April, 2008

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Ready for the new Service Packs!

NEWS!   Canto News — Find out about the Cumulus 7.5.3 update and testing for the new Windows service packs, plus help change eNews for the better, and more.

EVENTS!   Canto and its Partners on the Move — Don't miss the contact information for Canto at New York's Henry Stewart DAM Symposium this May.

MEET CANTO!   Canto Employee Profile: Catherine, Sascha and Baby Amélie — This month's employee profile is special, featuring two long term employees and a little something extra!

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Forget what you want to find! This month's Power Tip helps you find what you don't need, and explains why it often makes sense to do so!

March, 2008

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NEWS!   Canto News —Canto customer Newsday will represent Canto at this year's Henry Stuart DAM Symposium, and a long-requested Exploring Cumulus document is released!

EVENTS!   Canto and its Partners on the Move — Keep track of where Canto and its partners will be, and make plans to join us!

MEET CANTO!   Canto Partner Manager, Kay Gröger — The road to partner manager has been long and winding for this gastronomical guru, but super service for Canto's European partners is what he's cooking up today!

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — It's time for some Spring Cleaning! Learn how you can use Cumulus to wrangle asset collections located in every nook and cranny of your digital world.

February, 2008

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NEWS!   Canto News —Canto has a new distribution partner in France, and a Power Tips roundup summarizes your favorite part of eNews over the past year.

EVENTS!   Canto and its Partners on the Move — Visit Canto at this Summer's Henry Stuart DAM show in New York, and visit partner infowerk at shows in Germany.

MEET CANTO!   Canto Fulfillment Manager, Angela Zaretzki — Growing up playing Cowboys and Indians in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Angela Zaretzki never lost her belief that some day it would all make more sense.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Learn how easy it is to use Cumulus field formulas to make "smart" metadata entries automatically.

January, 2008

Cumulus Product Tour

NEWS!   Canto News —The Cumulus product tour has been updated, and read the latest on Canto's trainings for 2008

EVENTS!   Cumulus Training in New York City — Cumulus training crosses the US in February for a week long stint in the Big Apple.

MEET CANTO!   Technical Support Manager, Michael Schuetz — How far would you go for your digital asset management system? Meet a man who literally crossed the planet for Cumulus.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Your existing Cumulus system is the perfect vehicle for podcast broadcasting, and you might not even know it! Follow this month's Power Tip and find out how easy it is to capture, catalog and broadcast podcasts from all over the world.

December, 2007

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NEWS!   Canto News —Cumulus 7.5.2 is available now!

TRAINING TIME!   Cumulus Training for MacWorld — The one thing customers ask of Canto more than anything else is for more training! Canto is saying "yes" this January with a set of classes tailored to the subjects users care about most.

MEET CANTO!   Technical Documentation Manager, Hanne Kolbus — No one on Earth has trained more people to use Cumulus than Hanne Kolbus. If you've ever cracked open one of Canto's user guides, you've spent some time with Hanne. Now you can learn more about this longtime Canto employee first hand.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Quick Quiz: If you have a 3-user Cumulus Workgroup Server, how many user accounts can you have? If you answered, "3," then this PowerTip is for you! Find out how you can set up as many user accounts as you need—legally and easily!

November, 2007

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NEWS!   Canto News —Cumulus 7.5.2 is only a few weeks away, offering full support for OS X Leopard and a host of other fixes. There's something new on the horizon for HELIOS fans too!

TRAINING TIME!   Cumulus Training for MacWorld — The one thing customers ask of Canto more than anything else is for more training! Canto is saying "yes" this January with a set of classes tailored to the subjects users care about most.

MEET CANTO!   Technical Services Manager, Alain Defrasne — If you ever thought learning Cumulus was a challenge, imagine learning it using English docs when all you speak is French. Then, imagine that within a year's time, you'd mastered both the program and the new language.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — This month's Power Tip expands on the Quicksearch topic from last month. Learn absolutely everything you can do with Quicksearch, and have your coworkers saying, "How did you do that?"

October, 2007

Adobe Integration

NEWS!   Canto News — The 2007 Cumulus Roadshows were a success that included lots of information for users, and a few surprises for everyone. In addition, Canto's Berlin offices are moving, and if you're a Mac OS X user, find out what you need to know before you upgrade to Mac OS X Leopard.

NEW PRODUCT!   Adobe CS3 Integration! — Due in a few short months, see the first ever released screenshots from a product that promises to forever change the way creative groups deal with DAM.

MEET CANTO!   Technical Support Specialist, Larry Bosworth — If you've ever called for support in the US, you've likely spent some time with Larry. Now you can learn the behind-the-scene info on one of the most popular behind-the-scenes guys at Canto.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Quicksearch is used all the time by most Cumulus users. But the potential it offers goes far beyond simple keyword queries. Learn how you can easily take advantage of all the power this tool offers in this month's Power Tip!

September, 2007

Adobe CS3

NEWS!   Canto News — The big events for last month were the release of Cumulus 7.5.1 and a sneak peak of an integration product that promises to become one of Canto's most popular ever. Also, learn about Canto's Customer Referral Program and earn rewards!

EVENTS!   ROADSHOW! — Cumulus 7.5.1 is hitting the road this October, along with employees from Canto and our partners. Come out for this FREE event and see what's new in Cumulus, and get your questions answered. See the schedule and sign up today!

MEET CANTO!   Lead Engineer, Thomas Schleu — Every wonder who it was that wrote the very first line of Cumulus code? We call him "Mr. Cumulus" and he continues today to lead Canto's development team. Meet him in this first of a series of person profiles of your friends at Canto.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — You create a new catalog and Cumulus presents you with a directory to save it. But what if that's not where you want it saved? Learn how you can decide exactly where you store your catalogs, and more, in this month's Power Tip.

AUGUST, 2007

NEWS!   Canto News — Cumulus 7.5.1 is out now, but this "point" release includes more than just nuts and bolts updates. Also, Canto launches a U.S. road show this October, and might be in a city near you soon!

EVENTS!   Canto and Canto Partners — New events have been announced, and you're invited to join Canto and its partners for these in-person opportunities.

EXPLORING DOC!   Understanding Central Asset Locations —What's the best way to ensure your assets are always accessible to the users who need them? When does version control and check in/out make sense? Find out these things and more in this month's Exploring document.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Ever wish you could set the search/sort and editing properties of all your fields at once? Did you know you can? Find out how!

JULY, 2007

Why Upgrade to Cumulus ENterprise

NEWS!   Canto News — Find out what Canto's enhanced marketing team has been up to, and get involved by getting in touch.

EVENTS!   Canto and Canto Partners — New events have been announced, and you're invited to join Canto and its partners for these in-person opportunities.

UPGRADE INFO!   Cumulus Enterprise Advantages — Customers often ask about the differences between Cumulus Workgroup and Cumulus Enterprise. This new document details workflow and automation capabilities possible only when using Enterprise.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Looking for a convenient way to find all assets that have no category assignments using nothing more than the magic of your mouse? Learn how in this month's Power Tips section.

JUNE, 2007

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NEWS!   Canto News Items — Hot on the heels of the Cumulus 7.5 release, Canto announced a new development partnership with Adobe, and muscled up its internal Marketing.

WEB CLIENT TOUR!   Live Catalog Tour — Canto's open invitation to view our internal marketing catalog through our new Web client tour has been well received and, despite the increase in traffic, Cumulus 7.5 Web Publisher Pro is running strong!

EVENTS!   Canto and Canto Partners — New events have been announced, and you're invited to join Canto and its partners for these in-person opportunities.

TUTORIAL!   Exploring Cumulus — More requested that any other Exploring Series document so far, this new "jumbo-sized" Exploring document explains many of the workflow management technologies built into Cumulus today.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — The Cumulus 7.5 Web clients offer a handy new feature that makes Web-based previewing of almost any type of file easy.

CUMULUS 7.5 RELEASE
SPECIAL EDITION
(MAY, 2007)

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RELEASED!   What's New in Cumulus 7.5 — Learn all about the new features and benefits packed into this significant release that end users and IT pros are both going to appreciate.

WEB CLIENT TOUR!  Live Catalog Tour — Want to take a look behind the scenes at Canto and see what we've been up to? Our new product tour and demo of the Cumulus 7.5 Web Clients enables you to do just that.

IN PERSON!   Canto and Canto Partners — Learn how, when and where you can attend shows to meet Canto employees and partners in person.

TIPS!   Cumulus Power Tips — Ever thought about cataloging assets over the Web? Does drag and drop from the Web browser into Cumulus sound good? If so, this month's PowerTip is for you.

GET CUMULUS 7.5 NOW!   Customer Portal Accounts — The Cumulus 7.5 release is available through your Customer Portal account. If you don't yet have a Customer Portal account, go sign up for yours now so you can start enjoying the benefits of Cumulus 7.5 as soon as possible!

APRIL, 2007

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ON DECK! Cumulus 7.5 Sneak Peek —We can't hold back any longer! The forthcoming version of Cumulus is undergoing extensive testing as part of Canto's renewed commitment to reliability, but we want you to see some of what's on deck right now!

IN PERSON! Canto and Canto Partner upcoming events — A couple of important shows are coming up. Learn where they are, how you can attend and who you'll meet there.

NEW! Exploring Cumulus — This month's Exploring documents cover two of the most popular user requests: configuring Cumulus for autocataloging, and configuring the Vault for check in/out and version control.

TIPS! Cumulus Power Tips — Have you ever wished you could search through the Filters list to find all occurrences of "tif," "wmv" or some other search value when configuring an asset handling set? Learn about this hidden feature that, until now, was known only to the most secretive among Canto's engineers.

March, 2007

Video Suite Interface

NEW! Video Suite 2 — Adding support for Flash 8 video and animation, sporting a brand new user interface, and more, Video Suite 2 is a killer upgrade to a killer option product now available for all Cumulus 7 systems.

NEW! Exploring Cumulus — New this month are Exploring documents that explain the various Cumulus 7 category types and how you can take advantage of (and disable!) the categories automatically generated by Cumulus, and another that helps those evaluating Cumulus 7 make their way through the program.

TIPS! Cumulus Power Tips — This month's Power Tips covers a couple of new variables that can be used in queries to enable users to search on "live" time references, such as "today" or "6 hours from now."

February, 2007

Slideshows

NEWS! Competitive Report — Canto and longtime partner HELIOS have analyzed the combined benefits of Cumulus and HELIOS. See at a glance how these two best-of-breed solutions seamlessly integrate to deliver superior local and remote prepress and digital asset management workflows.

NEW! Product Slideshows — As if Canto's impressive Flash-based product tours weren't enough, now we offer a "Reader's Digest" version of the tours as slideshows.

TIPS! Cumulus Power Tips — The response we've gotten from the new Power Tips section of eNews has been overwhelming! We're glad you like it, and we're happy to offer even more new tips this month.

January, 2007

Customer Portal

NEWS! Enterprise Sales on the Upswing — Cumulus Enterprise sales for 2006 were at an all-time high. Find out why.

FREE! Customer Portal Accounts — Canto's Customer Portal Accounts are a great resource for support for all current Canto customers. Learn more and set up your account today!

NEW! Exploring Cumulus — This month's new Exploring documents include one on Metadata Standards support in Cumulus, and another that explain the benefits behind the Dynamic, Rules-based Permissions model unique to Cumulus Enterprise. Also catch up on any older Exploring documents you've missed.

TIPS! Cumulus Power Tips — Cumulus is such a vast application that even those of us here at Canto find ourselves exchanging "did you know?" tidbits. We felt it was time that we started sharing some of these tips with the readers of eNews.



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