Cumulus 7.1 update

Canto today releaesd Cumulus 7.1, a free update to its Digital Asset Management software. Version 7.1 brings product fixes and updates across the entire product line. Cumulus users can now personalize Native Client workspace layouts to better suit specific tasks, while users of the Web Access Clients will benefit from powerful asset relationship management options previously available only in the Native Client. All users will benefit from tighter feature parity between the two clients, the company said. In addition, users can set up trigger notifications that automatically email clients when files are ready for review. The company also said that Web-direct asset links can be copied from within the Native and Web Access Clients for easy pasting into email and other applications: when the recipient clicks the link, the asset is presented for download via the user's preferred Web browser.

The Cumulus Native Client now includes a category pane that can be split to additionally show the selected asset's thumbnail, preview, metadata and a calendar. Calendar dates are links that find and display assets cataloged or modified on the date clicked: once a collection window layout has been configured with the panes and views a user prefers for certain tasks, the setup can be saved for easy recall.

The Cumulus Web Access Clients have been updated to support split view and asset relations options first introduced in the Cumulus 7 Native Client.

On the back end, the Cumulus Server can now be mirrored to another Cumulus Server for backup and Web Access Client load balancing. In addition, user-created sets can now be exported and imported.

Cumulus also announced that the initial release of Canto's Brand Management solution, BrandAssistant, due Q4 2006, will be based on Cumulus 7.1.

The Cumulus Server is available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms, while native client software is available for Mac OS X and Windows and also for other Web-based systems.

by MacNN Staff