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title: Reasons to Upgrade to Cumulus 11 Platform
description: Explore performance, security, and capability improvements that make upgrading beneficial for DAM environments.
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# [Reasons to Upgrade to Cumulus 11 Platform](https://www.databasics.com.au/blog/why-upgrade-to-cumulus-11)

 Written by [Antra Silova](https://www.databasics.com.au/blog/author/antra-silova) | Aug 5, 2018 3:13:27 AM

 

Have you jumped on the Cumulus 11 bandwagon? Not yet? Here is a summary of what you’re missing out on. For more detailed descriptions of features and enhancements please refer to the resources at the end.

**Improved InDesign Client** – now supports Adobe InDesign Creative Cloud 2018:

 

- Select multiple assets from Cumulus at once using the common keystrokes
- Selected multiple assets can be placed together in documents
- Right-click on the file and view, modify, etc. that asset in the Cumulus Web Client with the new entry “Open in Cumulus”
- New “Relink” function – replace any link or resource with an asset from Cumulus Catalog

**Portals**:

- Customisation: a new lighter theme available out of the box
- Transparency support
- Playback for audio files
- Static URLs for all main pages
- Deep link functionality – to facilitate the integration of 3rdparty applications
- Field labels in overview, search result pages, and the basket overlay
- Controls for page navigation display on top of search results
- Show asset relationships if desired, browse related assets
- Configure the number of assets per page
- Static URL for Upload Collections

**Web Client:**

- Similarity search – detect visually similar files and potential duplicates
- Define asset actions in toolbox for better workflows – send a sample workflow that supports the similarity search and handling of similar assets, add selected asset functions to workflow states
- Asset navigation – navigate through list of files in details view, edit or preview modes with controls and keyboard shortcuts
- Improved container browsing – Vertical Container Tree on the left side of the window
- Audio playback
- Support for native language environments: define a default language, auto-tagging in multiple languages, email notifications in multiple languages
- Easily change your download collections
- Select All – Deselect All function
- New Crop Editor Tool to deliver proper renditions of the asset
- Focus Area Cropping – a “region of interest” can be defined for images and PDFs. This region of interest is saved along with the asset’s metadata

**Roboflow**:

- Better overview of workflows – toggle switch
- New folder filter: combine “including” and “excluding” in a fresh folder filter
- New action: call-external-script

**Cumulus Office Connector** (Please note this feature requires additional purchase):

- Browse in and insert images directly from Cumulus into your Microsoft Word documents or PowerPoint presentations
- Pull and insert PSD Photoshop files, when placing a PSD file into document a PNG file is generated by Office Connector

**Image recognition (AI) and Auto-Tagging** – this optional feature allows for all your images to be scanned and auto-tagged by Cumulus. These tags can be added to the metadata of the assets. Please note this feature requires additional purchase.

**SharePoint Search Connector** – search for Cumulus assets within the SharePoint search, view assets along with metadata and preview, save to SP Document library. Please note this feature requires additional purchase.

 

#### Useful resources

 

[Canto Community](https://community.canto.com/articles/Release_Info/Release-11-1-0-Information)

 

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