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Business Solutions:
- Digital Asset Mgmt
- Creative Solutions
- PDF Workflow
- Digital Distribution
- Prepress & Printing
- Document/Image Mgmt

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PODi Member 2008-9

Adobe Bronze Partner

General Info

* See Canto's Cumulus Tutorials on a range of topics including: Web interface (pdf) | workflow technologies (pdf), plus permissions, asset relationships, software evaluation of Cumulus and many more.

* Information Bulletin June 2009 - SPECIAL Cumulus 8 ed. (html | pdf)
* Canto releases Cumulus 8 - Press release (pdf). Check out the new Cumulus 8 Flash demo online.

* Cumulus/HELIOS versus Xinet FullPress/WebNative Venture: "HELIOS UB Solutions together with Canto Cumulus digital asset management provide a complete prepress and digital asset management solution" - comparison chart!

* RAW and the Digital Negative - read Adobe's online paper on The Digital Negative DNG Archival Format... (html)

See also DAM and Metadata (html) on this website for specific information about AGLS and Dublin Core metadata for government, educational and business users.

* Research monograph by the RIT Printing Industry Center (US) provides an overview of DAM systems, case studies, and systems available - Digital Asset Management: A Closer Look at the Literature, by Franziska Frey, Shellee Williams-Allen, Howard Vogl & Levy Chandra. Download the pdf.

* Free White Paper - Designing Metadata: An Implementer's Guide for Organizing and Using Digital Assets by Geoffrey E. Bock - download (pdf)

* Agfa's Job Definition Format explained (JDF: XML-based metadata tags that enable users to generate and define job processes)

* All about Apple's ColorSync (html).

In The Press!
Reviews, Interviews, and more...

Note: see also the Press release archive.

* Canto Cumulus Single User announced - Press release July 2009.

* Design Graphic's Cumulus 7 review (DG #126 Dec 2006)

For Cumulus case studies see Client Stories

Software Awards

* Frost & Sullivan recognises Canto with 2004 Digital Asset Management 'Entrepreneurial Company of the Year' Award - see the Press release (pdf) or read the full story online at Frost & Sullivan.