Cumulus® Vault is a revision control system that gives your workgroup added data security and up-to-the-minute information on the status of each asset.  As its name suggests, Vault enhances the security of your team’s assets – controlling who accesses them, how and when. It also gives you more ways working with your assets in Cumulus, providing version retention and tracking, at-a-glance version information, and integration into the existing Cumulus environment.

Cumulus Vault can control and monitor access to all assets. Think of it as the Cumulus librarian. Users check assets out for editing and check them back in again when they’re through. Vault allows only one user at a time to check out an asset. This prevents it from being edited by multiple persons simultaneously, possibly resulting in conflicting – and confusing – versions of the asset. If another user attempts to check the asset out, Vault informs the would-be editor which user is working on the file.

When a user checks an asset back in, Vault saves the updated file as a new version without overwriting previous versions. It keeps all back revisions, making it possible to track changes to an asset during the production cycle – a concept referred to as a version control system. It also provides information on all versions: Who made the changes? When? With Vault, these questions are easy to answer, making last week’s edits just as accessible as today’s.