Shade is a complete solution to all of your file system needs. See how Air stacks up.
Key takeaways
Cloud-exclusive platforms are limiting.
Air is another cloud solution that does not offer a complete file system solution that works across all your data sources (such as NAS, long term storage and existing blob storage). With Shade, your data is accessible no matter where it is.
Multimodal AI search
Shade offers a full multimodal AI search that supports over 500 different file types. This includes natural language search, facial recognition, and transcription. Air offers simple AI-based tagging and full-text search.
Manage permissions across data locations from one interface.
Shade unifies your permission management across your different data siloes. Air adds an additional data silo that is unnecessary, especially if you have purchased storage and existing NAS infrastructure.
Ready to switch from Air to Shade?
Real-time sharing > the cloud
Air is another cloud provider that provides a nice place to work with your files but does not work well with large amounts of media assets (and with any 4K camera, this adds up quickly). Still - how do you share terabytes of media assets without having each party wait for the files to upload and download? With Air, this is impossible; with Shade, this is easy - all your files are accessible in real-time.
Unified permissions management is critical to security.
Air Inc. provides its own permission management for all of its assets. With their boards and files, permissions are now managed in new software. Add this to your existing permissions managed in SSO/SAML, SMB, NAS, drive, etc. The more we share files via multiple software, the more we lose track of who has access to what.
With Shade, your data is unified in one pane of glass because it works in a hybrid environment so that all of your data, no matter where it is, is hosted locally, on-prem, or in the cloud. This lets you sync your permission management once, and all of your downstream files (internal and external) can be securely managed with Shade.
Never lose an asset again.
With Shade - we ensure that you never lose an asset again by providing multiple avenues and facets to search for an asset - whether that’s via EXIF metadata, tags that we generate, the actual content of the files via neural search, custom tags that you write, faces, or other filters, we offer the most extensive set of filters and methods to find exactly what you need. We have spent extensive effort to allow our AI to run on the edge and for your data to be securely stored wherever the data is - so you can rest assured that your data is not being shared with anyone else. Choose a solution that ensures you never lose an asset again - not just another DAM tool.
When to use Air over Shade: complex approval & review
Currently, Shade does not support sophisticated approval systems and review methods (although data governance is coming soon). If you need these specific features, Air does a phenomenal job ensuring that particular posts are appropriately managed and handled. However, if you are looking for a solution that enables you to search, work, and share your files with internal and external teams entirely in real-time across all different media types, Shade is the best solution.
