Canto vs WoodWing Assets | TrustRadius

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Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 192 reviews and ratings

Score 9 out of 10

Based on 3 reviews and ratings

Pros

Canto consistently updates it's software, so they're always making it better and more efficient, user-friendly, etc.
Provides a portal option that helps you control how your images are being displayed to users, which images can be seen and gives an aesthetic version for employees.
Canto is very responsive to support requests, ticket submissions, etc., and will work with you until your problem is resolved.
There's no size limit on files that you can upload.
It works fairly quickly when uploading images.

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Assistant Public Information Coordinator

Las Vegas Valley Water DistrictUtilities, 1001-5000 employees

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Faster Load Times
Improves your SEO efforts by decreasing browser load times
Saves your server resources by caching assets

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

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 [would] 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.
Their style guide option - being able to use a single image for the style guide instead of the whole folder or file.
I think the different language option could be built out a little better.

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Marketing Coordinator

Kwik Lok CorporationConsumer Goods, 201-500 employees

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Can be a bit expensive when compared to other CDN alternatives such as AWS or Cloudinary
Learning curve involved for the user interface/dashboards
Lacks more advanced manipulation of assets that can be served dynamically

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Canto 8.7

Based on 6 answers

We are very likely to renew our service with Canto. This is because of the support we have received and what we have seen Canto do so far for our company. We are finally able to organize our assets well and maintain governance over all of our digital assets. It has eliminated time difference issues and is equipping people within our company with a lot of content for them to use and push.

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Marketing Coordinator

Kwik Lok CorporationConsumer Goods, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Canto 8.4

Based on 83 answers

It is extremely easy to use as long as descriptions and tags are organized. Just type what you are looking for and it will pop up. We have team members who are not very high tech be able to learn it within a day. Very intuitive and user-friendly for the whole company.

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Employee in Social Media

Events Services Company, 51-200 employees

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WoodWing Assets 10.0

Based on 1 answer

It is incredibly easy. For an idea on the onboarding or training of a basic user, this is the only system we know of that training takes literally 1 hour, and the basic user is fully up to speed. Very intuitive user experience. Easy ability to share files (simply right click). Easy ability to search for all digital files, and even content within the digital files, if you cant remember what the file name was - just this feature alone saved us hours everyday

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Andrew Parrington

Business Development Director

Automated Publishing ServicesMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Canto 8.1

Based on 111 answers

I've had to reach out to support only the one time, but they were friendly, kind, knowledgeable, and helpful. They were able to address my issue and solve my problem on one phone call, and set up a way to ensure the issue would not happen again. Honestly, their support is one of the main reasons I would suggest this platform.

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Graphic Designer

Trillium Health Partners FoundationHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

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WoodWing Assets 8.0

Based on 1 answer

WoodWing support has been good, they do feedback quickly when reporting an issue and do keep you up to date with where they are in the process of resolving the support issue. The support team is knowledgeable and take the time to fully understand the issue. I do feel they should have an online support ability to assist with basic user issues, as opposed to having to log a ticket every time, but that would be the only reason I have not given them a 10.

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Business Development Director

Automated Publishing ServicesMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Canto 7.8

Based on 4 answers

We should have planned and identified ingest and content librarian during transfer and launch. Our admins wear other hats and accountability and getting to planned milestones lagged a bit due to this.

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Director in Marketing

Entertainment Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

The decision wasn't really up to me; it was up to our team's photographer. I actually wanted to use Google Drive initially, just because I thought it would be the easiest option and would integrate well with what we already use, but I have been pleasantly surprised by how easy Canto is to use. I've been very pleased with it.

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Strategist in Marketing

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Overall Elvis DAM is a great product although when you compare the solution to other providers of similiar asset CDNs such as Amazon's AWS, Rackspace CDN or Cloudinary it can get quite expensive. This is especially true if you have a team that is at the larger enterprise level in which case you are charged by the user.

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

As of right now, we are still in the process of transitioning so I do not know any details on overall business effectiveness or any hard numbers. But as of now it seems very capable of handling the amount of information my company holds.
I think it is an amazing perk that you can literally upload any type of file on Canto, and then you can open any type of file on Canto as well. It is amazing to find a product that lets you open and view CAD or DWG files without having the actual program!
The idea behind having our information more at everyone's fingertips and helping productivity has boosted moral and people are optimistic.

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Administrative Assistant in Engineering

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Easy to implement and execute
Reduced our bandwidth and overall web operating costs
Improved customer satisfaction with faster speed load times

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Employee in Marketing

Retail Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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