My boss has spent the last four years and almost $20,000 in trying to make Canto Cumulus work. The last $6,000 has been spent on the promise that if we upgrade to v.6 all our problems will be over. Ah salesmen! they sure promise a lot but we still cannot use this so called program to achieve anything except frustration.

I have personally used iView for many years, first when it was given away with Toast software many moons ago. It is now multi platform, able to do what Cumulus users can only dream of doing. Photos, Illustrator files, Photoshop files, font files, text files, you name it and iView can show it to you.

Crapulus does a fair job of photos but try anything else and you're in for a challenge. It took the smooth sales team three months before our Illustrator file thumbnails in cumulus look like they're made up of more than ten pixels. Until they rebuilt our server, our 4 license software allowed one person to open four catalogues and no one else. It was more like four catalogue software than four user software. If you created a collection, saved it and closed the window, you could never open it again as cumulus told you you had the wrong version of Cumulus! Shall I go on?

We were promised that Cumulus could communicate with another program like FileMaker to give us reports on who bought what, when, who produced what, who sold and how much, where the assets were. Ah to dream and wake up in a nightmare that is Canto Cumulus.

If you're considering buying this program please do yourself a favour and DO NOT! Save your sanity, your time and your money.