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Cumulus 5 Single User Edition
The Professional Way to Organize the Imagination

Cumulus 5 Single User is the unique digital asset management tool for creative professionals who need to find, create, and share digital assets such as images, layouts, multimedia, video, audio, and text.

It includes powerful search capabilities, multiple-size thumbnail previews, and comprehensive customizing options.

Supporting both MacOS and Windows platforms, Cumulus makes it easy to track assets, no matter where they are...in your computer, across the room, or down the hall...so you can spend your valuable time creating, not searching.

Product Highlights
• Customize previews, records and categories
• Attach voice annotation to assets
• Create multimedia slide shows
• Publish assets to HTML
• On the fly e-mail assets and slide shows

Cumulus 5 offers more than 85 new features including multi-media, communication, internet and presentation capabilities . It supports drag & drop with popular graphics applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, and CorelDRAW. Using a new modular architecture, the Single User Edition supports the new Cumulus Options, Web Publisher, and Browser, allowing users to make catalogs available on the Web or on removable media such as CDs and DVDs.

Cumulus 5 Workgroup Edition
The Standard in Workflow Asset Management

The Workgroup Edition makes finding, using and distributing assets across workgroups, departments, and remote locations, easy and efficient. It catalogs all files, builds thumbnail previews, and maintains detailed information about each asset. Cumulus uses a well-performing database engine optimized for metadata searching. It supports Mac OS, Windows NT, UNIX (Solaris, IRIX, Linux), Cumulus can be scaled and customized to meet the changing demands of any workflow and includes web-ready features for today's Internet world.

Product Highlights
• Customizable record and category fields
• Slide show output to QuickTime movies
• Customizable collection views
• E-mailing of assets, collections and slide shows
• Asset conversion and resampling

The new, modular architecture of Cumulus 5 allows Options developed by Canto or third-party Partners to be added to a Cumulus solution at any time. Currently, Options for the Workgroup Edition include Cumulus Web Publisher, Cumulus Browser, Cumulus Vault, and Cumulus URL AssetStore.

Cumulus 5 Enterprise Edition
The Platform for Your Enterprise Asset Management Solution

The top-of-the-line product from the world's leading Digital Asset Management system features unique workflow capabilities, unlimited Internet client access, and server-centric automation capabilities. Cumulus 5 Enterprise targets the global corporation with multi-located departments that need to centralize the access and retrieval of digital files. It allows users to develop, integrate, and deploy a custom-built Asset Management solution that addresses unique workflow demands. Initially supporting UNIX, Windows 2000, the Enterprise Edition leverages a new, open Cumulus architecture that is powerful and flexible enough to adapt to evolving technologies and company needs.

Product Highlights
• Automatic detection of usage and cross-references of assets (TM AXR). E.g. the Enterprise Edition will detect links and placed assets in compound documents. It offers functionality to easily maneouvre between such related assets, as well as ease updating assets that include others which have been altered.

• User and Group Privileges that allow specific user or group access live filtering to exact categories and records. In this way, asset access for the sales staff can be limited to final, approved material, while the work in progress in the marketing department should not be visible.

• Includes the Cumulus Internet Client Option. Building on the success of the Web Publisher Option, the Enterprise Edition will allow changing of record and category fields, as well as Check-In and Check-Out functionality via the Internet.Extended transaction-based server-side automation. The Enterprise Edition will offer an additional API, allowing a centrally customized solution to fit specific workflow needs.

• Extended Database connectivity. The Enterprise Edition will offer an API to access industrial strengths databases at optimal performance in order to store metadata and/or assets.

The Enterprise Edition offers comprehensive search capabilities, complete customization, unlimited scalability, multi-processor support, and SDK/API Access. It includes version and check-in/check-out controls and readily integrates with Internet and e-commerce strategies. An Enterprise purchase includes 5 days of Technical Services ranging from workflow analysis to integration, so users can further benefit from Canto's longtime Asset Management industry expertise.