With the imminent shutdown of Scene7 after rebranding by Adobe as part of Dynamic Media, dozens of leading eCommerce companies, among them the world’s top three eCommerce brands, have migrated to Cloudinary as a viable alternative to Scene7. And for good reason: time is of the essence and Cloudinary promises not only a smooth migration flow and continuity of their rich-media initiative, but also numerous superb capabilities.
Cloudinary would like to invite other Scene7 customers to make the same switch. It’s a worthwhile step that leads to a win-win.
What Does Cloudinary Offer?
As a platform for managing images, videos, and other rich media, Cloudinary, which can be seamlessly integrated with your technology stack and existing workflow, is the dominant choice for digital-asset management (DAM). The reasons are many:
- R&D: Cloudinary invests heavily on R&D and the science of imagery, ensuring that the company is always on the cutting edge of industry standards and technologies. Notably, our chief scientist has newly patented a versatile image format and is collaborating with Google’s Pik Team and the JPEG Committee for its release.
- Developer community: With dynamic software earmarked for developers, Cloudinary boasts two percent of the world's developers on its platform and over 550,000 users who frequently share expertise, tips, and experiences at forums and conferences.
- API-first platform: Cloudinary has and will continue to adopt an API-first approach, tailored for flexibility and ease of use.
- Cloud partners: Cloudinary is integrated and partners with key technology ecosystems, from cloud platforms to content-delivery networks (CDNs) to eCommerce vendors, and will continue to expand its collaboration chain. In the works is a mechanism for personalized delivery of media assets to end-user devices, viewports, and browsers.
- Reliability and uptime: Cloudinary is trusted by some of the largest global companies, including eight of the top 10 eCommerce enterprises, six of the top 10 media giants, and seven of the eight sporting leagues. That trust stemmed from our impeccable reputation and a 99.9-percent uptime. With that impressive reliability, over 550,000 users, and partnerships with the largest CDNs, Cloudinary is the obvious choice to replace Scene7.
In addition, to ease the concerns of Scene7 customers about migration, Cloudinary is waiving the Scene7-to-Cloudinary migration cost for the remainder of 2019—as much as a $25,000 savings. You are assured of optimum support from Cloudinary experts during the simple process, which typically takes less than two weeks.
What Are the Advantages of Migrating to Cloudinary?
Advantages of adopting Cloudinary abound. Here’s a brief rundown:
- Scale: By virtue of its robust cloud-scale architecture, Cloudinary enables you to efficiently upload, edit, and optimize digital media before delivering engaging experiences, including rich-media galleries, to all devices at scale. That translates to high-performance delivery of any volume of media anywhere.
- Ease of use: Cloudinary’s capabilities are user-friendly, straightforward, and intuitive, complete with a fast and easy way to search for content from a centralized library.
- Entire suite of tools: Besides management of digital assets, Cloudinary’s AI-powered tools, along with its APIs and SDKs, facilitate dynamic manipulation of images and videos, image sharpening, video transcoding, and application of special effects. For example, by leveraging Photoshop layers through the URL, Cloudinary even supports PSD files for personalized imagery. Ultimately, transformation of of digital media can’t be easier, resulting in a modern and future-proof user experience.
What Does the Aftermath Look Like?
After testing the Cloudinary solution, many former Scene7 customers have opted for a switch. Postmigration, they’ve all noticed significant improvements in page-load times, user experience, and traffic in addition to remarkable gains in image quality. See what our customers have to say about us. In particular, this testimonial from Jane.com is well worth checking out:
Do take advantage of our zero-migration-cost offer! Contact us to schedule a demo to learn the many benefits of the Cloudinary platform.