Alive Archives and Anywhere Access
Fast file access for living archives and moving targets
Your sales people are in airports, your designers are in Starbucks, and your customers and partners are everywhere else. They all need instant access to your file archives, which are always growing, and they need to interact with your works in production, which are always changing.
As daunting a challenge as this might seem, Canto Cumulus makes it easy. Your Cumulus system provides access to virtually every platform in use today, including mobile clients, and the files and metadata remote users see are always recent, because everything in Cumulus is live—what you do in San Francisco is exactly what they see in Sydney.
Even better for Michael Schulyok of turbine manufacturer, ANDRITZ HYDRO, was the zero additional cost of extending his Cumulus system to the world.
“Unlimited Web access without additional license costs finally convinced us. Other systems charge a small fortune for such functionality.”
But even “free” gets better when you consider the time and cost savings of making sure people get what they need the moment they need it, as Lilly Taylor from Joico can tell you. Even overnight isn’t soon enough when you need to get a file to someone on the go. Missed shipments, failed ftp connections and more prompted Taylor into coming up with a better solution. She chose Cumulus.
“Everyone can now get exactly what they want, because they have an on-screen visual reference. Once I started using our system, I thought, Wow, I really made the best decision here! Cumulus has never disappointed me.”
Cumulus has reduced Joico’s manually processed file requests by an astounding 95%.
For Jim Klar of Monster Cable, the introduction of anywhere, anytime access for his Web-based constituents was one of necessity. Monster Cable adds hundreds of new products and thousands of images annually to its product catalog each year. There’s just no other way to ensure fresh content gets where it needs to be while it’s still fresh.
“The majority of our customers are looking to us to provide them with descriptions and pictures of our products over the Web. We want our products to look great online and represent our brand appropriately.”
Cumulus not only makes it easy to add files and make updates from anywhere, it also gives you complete control over who sees and does what. Real-time controls like embargo dates and expirations watch the calendar for you, while advanced image processing options provide the watermarks, copyright notices and other assurances that you want to travel with your intellectual properties.
For more information how Canto Cumulus can bring your archive to life and make it accessible from anywhere, contact your local Canto partner or Canto today.
