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CumulusCumulus enables companies to easily organize, find, share and create digital content — on any platform.

This award winning software solution helps customers protect brand assets, ensure efficiency and improve the bottom line. Businesses may not only integrate Cumulus with applications and enterprise systems, but also fully customize the solution to support and streamline workflows.

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Simply The Most Powerful Search Available

Enter keywords and phrases to find any file. Search via category

browsing, keywords, customizable queries and based on filters and associations you define. Cumulus can be fully customized to track asset relationships, so that all files used in a particular layout or publication can easily be found and viewed.

Cumulus categories make it easyto support any taxonomy. Drag anddrop files to make fast categoryassignments. Advanced search queriescan be built easily and shared amongusers.

Smarter Workflows and Automation

Automate workflows and streamline, editing, review and approval processes.

Assign files to users and notify collaborators automatically via email when changes are made.

Cumulus supports ad-hoc workflows, status based workflows and integrations – and gives you all the tools you need to streamline your DAM workflows.

World-class Metadata Tools to Manage Important Assets

Add files in any format man-ually or automatically from a workflow step.

Built-in metadata support for IPTC, XMP, EXIF and metadata mapping to other standards gives organizations the industry’s most complete support

for managing production file formats Cumulus captures a mountain of metadata when a file is cataloged.

Cumulus knows the fonts used inlay-outs, Adobe Photoshop layer details, the frames of videos, and a virtually unlimited amount of otherformat-specific information.

Easily assign metadata to individualfiles; or bulk upload content based ontemplates, user-defined business rulesand drag and drop functionality toassign metadata en masse.

Configure metadata fields to appear asradio buttons, text fields, color labels,drop-down menus and other visualelements.

Metadata can be written back intomany file formats, to ensureAdd files in any format manually or automatically from a workflow step.copyrights, licenses, contact

Add files in any format manually or automatically from a workflow step.

information and other importantvalues remain with your assets as theyare distributed.

Adobe Integration to Boost Creativity

Cumulus speeds up creative workflows by integrating with Adobe Creative Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud.

Digital assets managed by Cumulus can be accessed from within InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Proand After Effects so creatives can stayin their familiar application, spend more time producing digital content, and less time searching, downloading, uploading, linking and relinking files. Cumulus tracks any changes made to your assets from the Adobe environment – so you can keep track of versioning, metadata changes and asset relations.

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Platform Friendly Access to Content

Access Cumulus onlineor from a desktop clientapplication.

Cumulus supports iOS mobile devices,Macs and PCs. Run the Cumulus Serverbehind your firewall on Windows, Linux or OS X; or with Canto’s cloud-based Hosted configuration. Mix an-dmatch platforms so users and IT get exactly what they want.

Cumulus offers distinct accesspoints, designed for different typesof users:

Cumulus Sites – customizable webportal used to quickly search, find anddownload assets. Sites allows public,limited-public or full-passwordprotected access.

Cumulus Web Client – web-basedworkspace for Cumulus users toadd new files, edit metadata, assignkeywords and categories, sharecontent and collaborate.

Cumulus Native Client –administrative desktop workspacedesigned for Cumulus power users,available on Mac and PCs.

Video Conversion and Streaming

Instantly convert videos into common file formats: flv, wmv,

mp4, mp3, 3gp with Cumulus Video Cloud.

Deliver high quality video streaming over a content delivery network (CDN) with automatic device detection and bandwidth recognition, for an optimal viewing experience.

Get download links, manage metadata and seamlessly control your video distribution together with all valuable branded assets in Cumulus.

Social DAM – for easy collaboration

Cumulus is built to give you the collaboration experience you are used to from consumer software.

Collaborate with freelancers and externals by sending them personal-ized collection links containing the content they need without having to have a Cumulus user account. Create an upload collection for your freelanc-ers, photographers and agencies to directly upload their work to Cumulus. To streamline collaboration internally, Cumulus users can comment on files and reply to other user’s comments – or notify users via email about the changes made.

Get download links, manage metadata and seamlessly control your video distribution together with all valuable branded assets in Cumulus.

“The moment Canto Professional Services showed us Cumulus and explained what they could do with it, I knew it was exactly what Lufthansa needed.”

Jens Polkowski, Manager at Lufthansa Direct Marketing

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About CantoCanto is driven by delivering digital content more intelligently. This has made the company a global leader in the digital asset management community.By always putting the focus on its users, Canto delivers scalable software and services that match customers’ demands. More than one million users from a wide spectrum of market seg-ments have trusted Canto’s expertise since the company’s founding in 1990. Canto is based in San Francisco (USA), Berlin and Linden (Germany) and serves a worldwide customer base in close cooperation with its worldwide partner network.For more information visit canto.com.

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Version Control and Rights Management

Manage distribution of ap-proved content to controlversions and adhere to

branding guidelines.

Define roles and permissions to ensure appropriate access to files. Check-in and checkout all files and add com-ments to document changes. Edit, pro-cess and add overlays and watermarks to images on-demand.

Select which files to publish, share andexpire, or let Cumulus decide based on metadata values, such as approval status, embargo and expiration dates.Manage version histories, use the compare mode to find hard to track changes and take advantage of roll back version options.

Security

When deployed in a LAN envi-ronment, Cumulus provides all the expected protections.

For users who connect over the inter-net, LDAP and RSA encryption can be used for logins and SSL (https) connec-tions are also supported.

User requests are processed through secure Java Web applications, and ses-sions work via firewalls. At no time are your original assets ever directly acces-sible over the Internet.

Easy to Use Admin Tools

Cumulus excels in flexible, easy to use administration. Manage user accounts in Cu-

mulus or map roles to your team’s LDAP roles for faster, more consis-tent administration.

See exactly who downloaded, edited, printed, emailed and removed which format of the asset, and when. Set triggers that respond to events such as the addition or deletion of records or categories, metadata edits and much more.

The Cumulus Scheduler runs tasks at admin-defined time intervals. Routine maintenance, such as license checking or archiving can be done in off-hours. Easily create unlimited tasks from the clean Cumulus Scheduler interface.

Deployment Options

Store your content on-premise, via our hosted solution or in Amazon S3 Asset Store.

Cumulus offers a variety of deployment options – including hybrid models – to meet individual enteprise needs.

Seamless Integration to Your Environment

Integrate Cumulus with third party applications and business processes to streamline your workflows.

Cumulus includes hooks that make it easy to integrate to external systems. Metadata import / export options, on-the-fly mirroring to external databases and a published API give you power and flexibility.

The Canto Integration Platform offers SOAP Web Services and RESTful API for virtually any custom development. Cumulus Java SDK also provides ad-ditional integration options.

■ Adobe: InDesign, Photoshop

■ CMS: Coremedia, First-Spirit, Open Text, Sitecore, Typo 3, WordPress

■ ECM: Sharepoint

■ ERP: JD Edwards, Navision, SAP

■ Web2Print: 1Publish, ChiliPublisher, CI-Book, one2edit

■ Project Management: At Task

…. and many others

Cumulus has been integrated with numerous systems and solutions such as:All new in

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