Cloudinary vs Extensis Portfolio

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudinary handles pretty much anything you have related to images. From serving them up efficiently to adding transformations on the fly, there's really little this service doesn't do. Their pricing plans allow you to grow into the right levels and their website dashboards are very helpful. I would easily recommend this for all but the simplest of use cases.

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Frank Ramirez

Co-Founder, CTO and Product Lead

SixPlusHospitality, 11-50 employees

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Best for image asset management; hands down the most robust and cost-conscious solution we have worked with. Best for customer support--from design and integration to life-cycle maintenance. Best of expansion of catalogues and assets--- easily add asset packs onto your SaaS agreement as you need--no worries here. Portfolio is continuing to improve its video asset management. However, if you are seeking solely a video management solution, Portfolio is maturing, but not "there" just yet.

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Christopher James

IT Project Leader

New York UniversityEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Cloudinary is the best in the market for photo and video transformations.
Cloudinary takes customer's requests for special features and implements them very quickly.

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Manjeet Singh

Engineering

Hike MessengerInternet, 51-200 employees

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Organization. It allows us to keep our photos organized and in their appropriate folders so we can find them again.
Search. Extensis Portfolio imports all the metadata from the photo and allows you to search for keywords or descriptions from its interface.
Sharing. Its NetPublish function allows for easy sharing across campus for other communicators to use photos we've selected for them.

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Heather Miller

Senior Graphic Designer

Oregon State University MarketingMarketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Their API does require URLs that can get quite lengthy and not always easy to parse on sight.
Documentation on how transformations work and what they actually do to your image could be clearer (what does force_strip actually mean?).
Although a free tier exists and is quite generous, should you need to acquire a premium plan for your needs the pricing at scale can climb quickly.

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Joel Tanzi

Software Engineer

Lockpath, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Permissions is a big deal. It is all or none access.
Very easy to make an irreversible database mistake with just a few clicks.

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Verified User

Director in Marketing

Graphic Design Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$49 per month

Cloudinary Editions & Modules

Edition

Programmable Media - Plus	$99¹
Programmable Media - Advanced	$249¹
Media Optimizer - Scale	$49¹
Programmable Media - Enterprise	Custom Pricing
Digital Asset Management	Custom Pricing

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none

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Free Trial

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No

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Extensis Portfolio Editions & Modules

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Usability

Cloudinary 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Cloudinary is very easy to use and offers fast way to upload your images, files and videos to their servers. Then they give you quick ways t implement those files or images onto your website using their API or just a normal URL. They also give you very fast ways to make edits to those files and include them in the url.

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Verified User

Executive in Corporate

Entertainment Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Cloudinary 9.0

Based on 4 answers

We rarely use their support. But when we need it they are always there. They provide great consultation and suggestions to help us manage our costs and resources better. In the last 8 years perhaps we have contacted them 3 or 4 times - which is really really great

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Extensis Portfolio 8.4

Based on 4 answers

We have someone in Extensis Portfolio's customer service who is the main contact whenever our group has questions or concerns. When we were looking into a campus-wide option for a digital asset management service, they were very forthcoming and easy to work with, and able to answer any questions that we had for them.

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Heather Miller

Senior Graphic Designer

Oregon State University MarketingMarketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Cloudinary seemed to be the most sophisticated with the most documentation and platform support. Other solutions seemed to be a lot harder to implement, however, due to the good documentation and API samples on their GitHub we were able to implement it nicely. Additionally, they have a lot of really well-known brands using them like Wired, Sky News, and eBay which gave us a lot of confidence that this was a good robust solution to use and to help others with

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Verified User

Analyst in Engineering

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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We have been with Extensis for many years-- so the comparisons are outdated at this point. Companies like WebDAM, Adobe's Lightroom, mediavalet, and others, just don't have the robust catalogue management Portfolio does. There is a solidness and assurance of functionality we experience when using Portfolio-- nothing clunky or web-cloud shaky

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Christopher James

IT Project Leader

New York UniversityEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Images are essential to our product and using Cloudinary has allowed us to serve them up in a cost-effective and efficient way. Not having to worry about your images frees you up to tackle the real challenges for your product.

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Frank Ramirez

Co-Founder, CTO and Product Lead

SixPlusHospitality, 11-50 employees

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Allows quick and easy image and asset searches.
Has been an invaluable tool for our organization by freeing up database employees to tackle other tasks.

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Verified User

Director in Marketing

Graphic Design Company, 1-10 employees

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Cloudinary vs Extensis Portfolio

Cloudinary

Extensis Portfolio

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Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudinary

Extensis Portfolio

Usability

Cloudinary

Extensis Portfolio

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Cloudinary

Extensis Portfolio

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Cloudinary Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Extensis Portfolio Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Usability

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

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