Cnario Digital Signage Suite

Cnario Suite is a complete digital signage playback, distribution and content management platform for informational, educational and commercial messaging used by retailers, airports, hotels and financial institutions to attract and engage customers in a multimedia rich immersive experience.

Languages supported: English

8.6/10 (Expert Score) ★★★★★
Product is rated as #40 in category Digital Signage Software
Ease of use
7.4
Support
8.8
Ease of Setup
7.4

Cnario Suite is a complete digital signage playback, distribution and content management platform for informational, educational and commercial messaging. This software suite constitutes a full end-to-end digital signage solution, creating an industry first all-in-one digital signage content management platform.

Cnario enables creation, management, monitoring and control of digital signage networks through easy-to-follow workflows that provide a lower total cost of ownership than the competitors.

Content Authoring

– Cnario’s Any-K fluid video wall technology is designed to support any size video wall canvas. It’s Multi-CPU architecture handles everything from running the playback engine to smart distribution of large format content, all fully synchronized utilizing multiple PCs. The result is near limitless expandability of your video wall canvas and limitless detail in your content, whether it’s 4K, 8K or beyond.

– Layouts
Layouts are Cnario’s way of harnessing the power of multi-display authoring in a simple, flexible and convenient toolkit. Whether a single screen, video wall or collage, Cnario lets you focus on your content’s visual impact and not which displays receive what content.

– Advanced Scheduling
With Cnario you get the powerful scheduling capabilities you need without sacrificing flexibility and ease of use. Organize and schedule your content in three easy ways.

Management, Distribution, & Security

– WatchDog is real-time component bundled with every Cnario player actively monitors the player application as well as key functions of the player PC. WatchDog can identify and automatically resolve performance and reliability issues with minimal visible impact. Should the need arise, WatchDog can even restart the player PC all while reporting application and PC health to the CMS in real-time.

– Cnario’s intelligent distribution uses “push and store” logic, where each player holds all of the required playlists and media assets required for playback per its scheduling and is never dependent on connection to a CMS, a streaming server, etc. Cnario automatically keeps players up to date and plays the latest version of the content. Every file is identified using a 128Bit “hash” key referenced in the playlist (or other content items) which ensures content validity. The entire process is fully monitored by the CMS with to-the-byte progress and completion tracking on an asset-by-asset basis.

– Cnario’s built-in permissions engine provides system administrators with the ability to create and manage collaborative workflows for users inside and outside the organization. These permissions can be role or department-based, integrated within the organization’s active directory, defined according to a multi-level approval workflow, and even restrict access and actions right down to the individual channel and content item.

Playback

-Full Sync Playback ensures frame accuracy regardless of the type, size, and duration of your content. Create choreographed sequences, animations, and complex logic involving many visual items, and spread them across the entire canvas.

-Pixel Perfect
Cnario provides incredibly smooth playback with its powerful playback engine. This engine enables us to address every pixel in a canvas (even very large ones) by driving each display in its native resolution. For the extra-large canvases, Cnario uses multi-CPU frame synchronization that maintains perfect sync across the multiple computers that drive the canvas. This ensures that all displays in the canvas operate as one cohesive video wall. You never need to do anything to keep everything looking perfect, Cnario keeps it up and running… from the start.

-Auto Failover
For installs requiring maximum uptime, Cnario players can be configured to run redundant channels. During playback, the system continuously monitors every player and automatically reverts to a backup unit in case an error occurs minimizing disruption on playback.

-Generative & Interactive Content
Deliver powerful customer experiences built in today’s interactive platforms – HTML5, WebGL and more. Utilize the Cnario visualization engine to display responsive content in real time across multiple displays and the Cnario API to integrate with external data sources.

-Open Architecture
Harness Cnario’s device integration API for seamless interface and activation between content, external readers, sensors, automation systems, and connected peripherals.

Cnario Digital Signage Suite
Cnario Digital Signage Suite

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Customer Reviews

Cnario Digital Signage Suite Reviews

Beni U.

Advanced user of Cnario Digital Signage Suite
★★★★★
Cnario is a fully featured digital signage system with serious capabilities.

What do you like best?

Cnario lets you create any sized digital canvas with complete synchronization over the network. No matter what request the client has thrown our way, we have been able to meet their needs using Cnario.

Video, audio, RSS, and HTML5 are just a few of the features that can be configured to play in-sync. Users can add custom scripts to pull information from external sources and display it in a beautiful way. The Cnario API allows users to control Cnario remotely using REST, SOAP, TCP, and UDP. The system is modular, meaning that you can scale at any time depending on need.

What do you dislike?

Cnario 3.7 (the version we are using) is outdated visually. This is addressed with version 3.8, although it's not fully ready for production environments at the moment.

The way that Cnario Messenger loads data into the system (via Microsoft SQL Server) causes the Messenger software to become very unresponsive and slow when opening folders that have a large number of content files in them.

When it comes to scripting, users are limited to using the basic coding language which can be pretty cumbersome.

Sometimes, Universal Player does not register changes to the Windows registry. This causes things, such as screen arrangement, to become frustrating tasks. Fixing these types of issues requires YCD support and causes slow downs in production.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Make sure to consider all the features available in the suite. Cnario can be as powerful as you need it to be, whether that's a 1 screen kiosk, or a multi-national digital signage system.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Cnario is a big reason why our company is able to provide our clients with 99.99% up-time. We provide digital media services, which would not be possible without Cnarios' ability to deliver content to displays at a large scale. Cnario enables us to provide unparalleled support to our customers because of its remote control capabilities.

Review source: G2.com

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