Extensis Portfolio vs pCloud

Likelihood to Recommend

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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pCloud is quite suitable for most users. It does a lot well, such as file storage, being multi-platform, and decent user experience with folder organizing and moving files around.
Where it isn't at apt would be in workspaces to manage documents like Google Drive, and even dropbox would provide. The ability to manage google docs, sheets, etc. would be a significant plus.
The ability to use a workflow to store file shortcuts (don't like their star system quite as much)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pros

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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Syncs really fast....both upload and download
Is reliable....decent uptime and quite stable

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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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Offline folders (a normal sync rather than a separate folder would do)
Backups (ability to keep them longer and not be upsold for it)

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Extensis Portfolio 8.1

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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pCloud 6.0

Based on 1 answer

I'm quite as impressed with it, although their faqs cover most current and pending issues. They take around 48 hours to respond to inquiries, while platforms like Gsuite have an instant agent and multiple contact options.
They do attend to you, and I do understand they're trying to keep a lean team and reduce operational costs. For a frequent user who uses cloud storage for multiple things such as website databases, etc. and has clients, it could be a tad frustrating.

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Craige Hardel

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Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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pCloud makes the storage and retrieval process quite easy. With Google Drive, sure you can store lots of items, but the Linux functionality just wasn't there.
The same was the case with OneDrive, which I still use. However, it can be buggy and taxing on computer systems.
pClould is quite simple to use, flexible, and quite effective at what it does. And it's conveniently priced too.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Less stress (since I can switch computers and not be limited by hard drive space yet having access to what I need.
Integrating Linux into our workflow (they take the cake there, and that makes life so much easier.

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Craige Hardel

Founder & Email Income Copy Chief

Hardel Enterprise SolutionsMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Extensis Portfolio Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

pCloud Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium 500 GB	3.99 /mo¹
Premium Plus 2 TB	7.99 /mo¹
Premium 500 GB Lifetime	$175²
Premium Plus 2 TB Lifetime	$350²

per installation
One-time payment

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Extensis Portfolio vs pCloud