Case Study: Canto achieves faster financial consolidation and reduced IT costs with Sage Intacct

Canto - Customer Case Study

Canto, a Germany‑headquartered provider of digital asset management software used by more than 1 million users worldwide, faced growing pains from an on‑premise ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) hosted in Berlin and accessed via Citrix. The system caused duplicated data entry, poor integration with Salesforce, slow and error‑prone financial consolidation and revenue recognition, unreliable project tracking, and high maintenance and upgrade costs — prompting Canto to seek a cloud ERP that would centralize data, integrate with CRM, support German localization, and lower IT overhead.

Canto implemented Intacct (went live in three months plus five months for German localization), centralizing financials and integrating with Salesforce to automate consolidation, improve revenue recognition and project tracking, and eliminate most server maintenance. Results included a 91% annual ROI, an 8‑month payback, $30,000 in annual IT cost savings, 500 hours saved in manual data entry per year, and average annual benefits of about $47,039.

Canto

Hans Schaedel

Chief Financial Officer, Canto