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Image auto-tagging, integration with Google Analytics and advanced password security highlight Canto’s latest release

Canto’s CDG release continues the commitment to provide comprehensive features while never compromising user experience

San Francisco, CA – April 26, 2017 – Canto, a leader in digital asset management, is pleased to announce that the newest version of Canto is now available with a variety of new features designed to provide marketing teams with a more efficient way to organize, manage and share brand assets such as images, videos, logos and design files.

Canto employs AWS Rekognition’s deep learning capabilities to feature exciting new Smart Tags technology. Also new in Canto are: Google Analytics™ integration, Adobe™ InDesign CC 2017 support, more language support and optimized global performance with additional international Amazon S3 data storage locations.

“We continue to add a rich set of features into Canto, yet we do it in a very intuitive way, to serve the needs of today’s busy marketers,” stated Jack McGannon, CEO of Canto. “Our customers are increasingly using Canto in more sophisticated and scalable ways – as an example, supporting 5,000 users or more across their organizations. Even in light of this, Canto continues to put the power in the hands of the business user by designing capabilities so that there is no requirement for IT support and specialized power users.”

Canto introduces the following new features:

  • Smart Tags – built on deep learning from AWS Rekognition, Canto saves time by detecting objects and auto-suggesting keywords with associated confidence scores
  • Google Analytics integration gives greater insights into asset usage
  • Canto InDesign plugin now supports Adobe InDesign CC 2017
  • International S3 data storage locations speed performance globally
  • Canto supports English, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese languages
  • Multi-page PowerPoint previews
  • Configure password policies based on company security tolerance
  • Add customizable watermarks in bulk or on-the-fly when sharing a file, without affecting the original image stored in Canto

To see a demo of the Canto digital asset management software, Canto will be offering live demonstrations at these upcoming events:

  • Thursday, April 27 at 10:00 AM PT / 1PM ET (online): What’s New in Canto Webinar
  • Monday, May 8: Canto DAM Summit Americas 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco
  • Tuesday, May 9 through Thursday, May 11: Booth #813, MarTech at the Hilton Union Square San Francisco

About Canto

Canto is a leader in digital asset management (DAM) software, with customers that include many of today's top brands. This simple yet intuitive solution gives organizations a visual way to centralize, organize, and share all their digital brand assets, empowering them to save valuable time and gain a competitive edge. Canto's DAM solution has wide applicability to a variety of industry verticals, including retail, manufacturing, education, transportation, hospitality, nonprofit, healthcare, food and beverage, technology and more. Canto's corporate headquarters is in Atlanta, with offices in Berlin, Germany, and a regional hub in Sydney, Australia. For more information, visit www.canto.com.