Cortex
About Cortex
Cortex Pricing
Depending on the complexity of the solution and modules selected, annual pricing can vary from $5,000/mo to custom enterprise pricing. Entry-level through enterprise users will enjoy the very same platform, implementation teams, and reliability – The only things that differ are scale, product/module activation, and support options. Please contact Orange Logic directly for pricing information.
Starting price:
$60,000.00 per year
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Most Helpful Reviews for Cortex
1 - 9 of 9 Reviews
Robert
Verified reviewer
Internet, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Best DAM out there. PERIOD.
The time saved with Orange Logic alone has increased my team's efficiency and company resources.Saving time with:• Licensing/Approvals/Usage Rights on all our Assets• AI Metatagging• Folder Structure Organization• Source of Truth for the entire company and our partners to access all our Assets, and track where they are used and who used them.• Elimated shoulder tapping from coworkers in other organizations.
PROSOrange Logic is the only Digital Asset Management Platform (DAM) worth using.They are the only few DAMs that offer:• Asset AI Meta Tagging for Video and Image• Best for enterprise companies, small & large, don't get charge by the user seat.• White Glove service, every business is unique and they were the only solution that offered what we needed and how we wanted it to be customized for our company.• Easy to use platform and it does the work itself, I spend 1 hour a week managing everything.• Custom Integrations with our Software and Online Tools.
CONSThe only thing I was unhappy with was the time it took them to create our DAM system, but after the time it took to get it up and going, I can proudly say it was worth the wait for the setup.
Reason for choosing Cortex
They were the only platform that offered:• Figma / Adobe / Google Slides integration without 3rd party tools• Easy of use• Folder Structure management• AI Facial and Product Recognition• Video Proxies / Derivatives and Video Timeline Subclipping• Virtual Folders, that way you can carbon-copy assets and multiple arrangements• Closed Caption Translation• Complex User Permissions (Internal & External)
Alexandra
Performing Arts, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2023
Cortext Review - Cultural institution
We are looking towards using the DAM as our central asset location, to support both current event documentation, and our archival needs. This system can handle both, and do it well. I'm a happy user, who gladly discusses the benefits of this with other users.
PROSI've used several DAM systems, and this is the best. It's very nimble, intuitive, and there are a multitude of built-in features that would require custom development in other systems. I am able to configure a great deal of features myself, without needing to cut and paste code into the back-end. The customer service is actually helpful, and has a good response time. I like the metadata flexibility, and the ability to customize the search Filters is helpful. The dashboard is great for quick info, and the out-of-box reports cover most of what I'm looking for. Overall, very, very pleased with this product.
CONSAs someone who missed the implementation process, and is trying to reconfigure a DAM without the benefit of 24/7 support, the documentation is not always 100%, and does leave me with some questions sometimes.
Reason for choosing Cortex
The features in Cortex were better, and Cortex is stronger with video, which is a large component our of content.
Jerome
Newspapers, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
Cortex by Orange Logic does a good job of managing many assets on both the backend and frontend
Being able to showcase all Assets of different types and make them available to customers easily and quickly for purchase is great. Exactly what you want in a platform like this. It is not our main DAM but rather our gateway for the public to access our Assets for purchase or licensing.
PROSThe platform's asset management system works well. Batch editing for sets of assets is very quick and easy to use and being able to clean out old data is helpful. Calculator while a tad clunky to set up is very robust once running
CONSThe only two things I find as a fault of the platform are when the use case sits slightly outside of its scope and future-proofing. We use the platform for both consumer and professional cases and while this is well suited to professional users, the need for every customer to have a login can be limiting for a consumer user who just wants to come on and purchase one print and will probably not be back again. I realise this use case is not the majority for this type of platform so it shouldn't detract from the overall score but one thing that I still find a little frustrating is the inability to have good quality use on mobile platforms. This might be once again a consumer use case type issue but not being able to simply adapt the site to be mobile and tablet friendly is a little bit of a pain and while it is coming along in most recent releases it is still very far away from where I would expect it to be in 2022. Coming from an e-commerce background and being able to edit sites with CSS to achieve a solid responsive design was what I was expecting when starting work on this platform but it needs to be said that the ability to edit templates outside of specific fixed templates is actually near impossible
Reason for choosing Cortex
This was in place before I started
Steve
Verified reviewer
Hospitality, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
Very flexible and scalable system
Cortex has been able to meet the scale and speed demands for how our company works. Without the flexibility of the system and the ability to create multiple API workflows, we would not have been able to be as successful in keeping up with our asset production. The Orange Logic team behind Cortex was always eager to take on our challenges and find workable solutions.
PROSIn our case, we've been able to scale the Cortex to meet our business needs, quickly adjust settings as our workflows change, and use APIs to integrate the system with many of our other production workflow tools. We've achieve both scale and efficiencies thanks to the flexibility of Cortex.
CONSAlong with the flexibility that allowed us to achieve our scale and efficiency, that same flexibility can become complex if it's not planned out properly. It's tempting to do too much too quickly but a more manageable approach is to implement additional functionality in phases that build upon each other.
Lauren
Museums and Institutions, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Cortex is a superior digital asset management system
Even as the pandemic shuttered onsite collections access, Cortex allowed my organization to share our collection with anyone who has Internet access. It is easy and fast to bulk upload images and metadata, and make batch changes.
PROSI like that Orange Logic provides a ticketing system, Link, where I can raise a defect, ask a question or request an enhancement. I can prioritize tickets from critical to normal or even long-term. At any time I can log onto Link to see the status of the tickets that I've submitted. Answered tickets are archived, so I have a complete history of our evolving digital asset management system.
CONSCortex is a very granular and robust product. I know that I'm missing out on features, but as the only power user, I simply do not have enough time to delve into all of them.
Stephanie
Museums and Institutions, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2022
Great staff and customer support
The ease of creating multiple metadata mappings and the ability to batch edit on every field are considerable upsides to Cortex. These features work with relative ease compared to other products I've used over the years.
CONSYou can tell that Cortex was built to accommodate a wide variety of use cases. While that may play well for Orange Logic in attracting customers, it can be an overbearing product for end users. It took me several months to wade through the sea of Cortex functionality and hone in on what worked for my needs. Once you get through that, the product does well, but it feels like Cortex tries to be too many things at once.
Antonio
International Affairs, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
UN Photo DAM powered by Orange Logic Cortex
It has been overall positive since the launch on production in November 2020.
PROSSaaS solution, intuitive interface, powerful search and metadata management as well as robust storage and archives management via AWS. Robust cyber security features.
CONSConstant software upgrades that can be positive for bugs fixing and adding new features, but can disrupt team workflows and add complexity to standards and more work for the team.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2019
DAM with Cortex
Cortex has vastly improved our discovery and branding processes.
PROSEase of use is the biggest pro. Many users require little to no training in order to use basic functions within Cortex.
CONSThe support tickets have started to be answered a little slow. Most questions are answered within two weeks, but critical issues still see care rapidly.
Reason for choosing Cortex
The value and ease of use for the product pushed it above the other companies we looked into.
Ben
Museums and Institutions, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2022
Finally a DAMS that works!
Our company works with lots of video files, and we didn't have a great place to keep them. We had a local storage server that almost died multiple times due to power surges and we almost lost everything. We originally were going to use a different DAM solution but when Covid hit and everyone was working remotely we couldn't edit videos over the VPN. Cortex integrates with Premiere so our team can edit off of low resolution proxy files and export the final video at high resolution.
PROSCortex makes it easy to upload, share, and download media files. It integrates with the Adobe suite and allows for our creative team to work remotely off proxy files. It's a flexible platform, and our integration team has been a joy to work with.
CONSI'm getting really nit-picky here, but I'd love for Cortex to support additional S3 storage tiers to save money on our cloud storage bill. It's on their roadmap though