Cloudinary vs. MediaValet

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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MediaValet is well suited for organizations that need a centralized place to manage and share a large volume of marketing assets across multiple teams or locations. It works especially well when brand consistency is important and when assets need to be shared with outside vendors or partners.
It is less appropriate for very small teams with minimal assets or simple storage needs, where a basic file-sharing tool may be sufficient. It can also feel like more than what’s needed if teams are not actively tagging or organizing assets, since the value comes from consistent usage and upkeep.

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• 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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• I love that we can add keywords. It makes finding assets very easy.
• I love the fact we can make lightboxes. It makes sending assets to different people easy.
• They are always adding more features to MediaValet to make it better.
• I love that we're not limited to which types of files we can upload to MediaValet.

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• Currently, they don't have an officially supported Drupal module -so it's quite painful to implement.
• If you have a site that has a lot of visitors then it's possible to get quite large bills out of the blue if you get a massive spike e.g. black Friday.
• The UI for the backend and documentation could do with a lot of improvements.

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• More flexibility/features when using Lightboxes
• Replace an old version of an asset with a newer one without having to check-out, then check-in
• Sharing an asset or a set of assets via a share link -- would be great to generate shorter, dynamic URLs for sharing as opposed to the longer string URLs it currently generates

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It is not only likely, but we have been doing it for more than 6 years. We have even had the service since before I joined the company. The service works well for me and I hope that this service will continue to be renewed next year, as not having it would make my job more complicated.

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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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MediaValet is easy to use in government because it's very intuitive. We have a wide range of internet skills at my organization, and everyone can use this tool with minimal/no training. It's great on an administrative side as well. Admins can control who sees and downloads photos. This is perfect for our organization, since some things can be kept private across departments.

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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The team is very responsive to requests and makes a point to provide feedback or status updates before confirming solutions.

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I mainly use MediValet to send special medical images to our partners. Collaboration with other companies is very simplified through MediaValet. The qualitatively uploaded images can be excactly assigned and organised through various filters. It is much clearer and easier for our partners to understand when the images have been accurately labelled and assigned beforehand.

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My experience with AEM has been limited to interacting with it through others, and so this information should be taken with that in mind, but my impressions from talking with the service engineers managing this system in our enterprise (in a previous role) was that it could be challenging to integrate effectively into a large-scale organization with demands on security. The biggest reason I selected Cloudinary was price-based; their free plan serves my needs as a freelancer quite well.

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MediaValet provides a lot of the same features as other DAM solutions on the market today, such as advanced search functionality and tagging capabilities but it overall won over for us because of its ease of use. Some of the more advanced features on the other tools evaluated made them a little bit more cumbersome to use on a day to day basis in addition to overall setup. We found the setup with MediaValet to be extremely quick and easy where with other programs the time to get up and running was significantly longer.

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• 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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• We can download photos from anywhere. I can add, or access images from home as easily as work.
• We have literally freed a person who would be in the office to go take pictures of our beautiful state.
• The downloads are the same quality as the uploads!

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