Canva Enterprise unveiled, platform’s biggest overhaul yet in 2024

Canva unveiled their biggest overhaul in a decade with Canva Enterprise. This was introduced at the company’s first international Canva Create in Los Angeles.

Of course, the announcement came along with a suite of new workplace products and services poised to redefine creative workflow.

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About Canva Enterprise

Canva Enterprise meets the demand of ever-changing tools for engagement, productivity, and scaling brands with a subscription offering.

Large organizations with complex security, reporting, administration, and brand management requirements can surely look forward to this. With the new platform, orgs can create large quantities of visual content and scale internal collaboration easier.

The offering also comes with more flexibility for admin controls and security, keeping assets safe and on-brand. Canva Enterprise is inclusive of:

• Scalable Growth: Increase seats along with scalable cloud storage to meet the needs of global organizations. Create multiple teams across an organization, giving everyone secure access to the content they need.
• IP, Cost and App Consolidation: Consolidate design, content production, AI and collaboration tools in one centralized account to scale impact while reducing cost and complexity.
• Advanced Brand Controls: Maintain brand consistency with robust controls to manage every aspect of your brand. Manage access to elements and templates in Canva’s library and control who can share content externally.
• Enterprise-Level Security: Robust security designed to keep organizations safe through tools including MFA, SCIM, SSO, and Canva Shield, an advanced collection of Trust and Safety Tools, including indemnification for AI-generated content for eligible customers.

New Canva User Interface (UI) Tailor-made for Work

Canva also unveiled a complete redesign of their core product experience for the first time in a decade. The new UI is tailored for speeding up workflows and harnesses focus, with a few standout features:

• Streamlined editing experience: A new contextual editing toolbar creates more space and improves focus. Fan favorites like one-click background remover and Canva’s Magic Studio AI tools are now front and center.
• A brand new, customizable homepage: Workspaces are now customizable. Users can favorite top designs, folders, and brand templates, while organizations can pin company or team-wide content to the top of the page. A powerful search interface with advanced filters allows for less time searching and more time creating.
• Simpler and faster collaboration: With easier navigation, teams can move between projects, access key assets and resources, and apply brand guidelines. Users can filter, sort, expand or hide comments to work more efficiently and collaborate with ease.
• Canva’s new homepage and editing experience will be available today for the first one million users. However, they have to find the secret portal hidden in the homepage first. General availability will commence in August this year.

Tools Made for Every Team

Canva has also made a variety of tools fit for every team consisting of several products, resources, and templates. These are customized for the needs of Marketing, HR, Sales, and Creative departments.

The tools include Canva Work Kits, which are new industry-curated collections of craft-specific templates. Documents and presentations are made more accessible, enabling teams to scale their output with more tools. Work kits are fully customizable, and can be branded using one click with Canva’s Brand Kit. The initial Work Kits have resources for:

• Human Resources: Onboarding decks, company newsletters, and job advertisements
• Sales: Pitch decks, sales reports, and sales proposals
• Marketing: Campaign content calendars, social media posts and campaign reports
• Creative: Creative briefs, production request forms, and brand strategy templates
• We also have Canva Courses, which offers a supercharged workplace learning experience. Canva’s evolving from a traditional design platform into an end-to-end platform for content creation, collaboration, and now consumption.

Canva Courses help users turn existing designs from presentations, documents, and videos into segmented interactive courses. Anything from employee onboarding, upskilling, or development can be assigned to individuals across an organization. From a managerial end, progress can also be monitored via a central dashboard.

Updates on Visual Suite and Magic Studio AI Products

Canva is slated to leverage AI-powered tools with the expansion of Magic Studio. The tool has been used more than 6.5 billion times since launching in October 2023.

The updated Magic Studio’s capabilities are inclusive of:

• Magic Media: Text to Graphic: Generate graphics, icons, and illustrations in a variety of styles from a text prompt
• Magic Design: Generate 3x higher quality presentations with improved AI design technology
• Resize & Magic Switch: Convert any design to any custom doc – enter a prompt, or choose from new options like a video script, LinkedIn post, or presentation outline
• Styles & Layouts: Apply brand colors and templates to an entire design in just one click
• Supercharged Photo Editing: Our AI-powered photo editor gives you the ability to seamlessly move, remove or edit any object in an image – just like you’re editing a Canva template.
• Upgrades to Video: AI-powered Highlights cuts a selection of eye-catching clips from longer videos, while Enhance Voice makes audio crystal clear by reducing background noise.

Supercharged Products Built to Fuel Work

Canva has also updated its Visual Suite with several requested features designed with teams and organizations in mind:

• Suggested Editing: 375 million Canva Docs have been created since their launch in 2022. Now, users will be able to track changes and collaborate on edits.
• Apps from Amazon Ads, Google and Meta: Apps built by the world’s largest ad platforms offer instant feedback on designs and easy access to asset libraries and templates approved by each platform.
• Data Autofill: Bring business data into Canva from third-party sources like Salesforce and the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) to automatically fill designs with text and images to create custom assets at scale.
• Bulk Create: Speed up your marketing workflow by uploading a CSV or Excel file to Bulk Create which allows you to quickly update images, text, and graphics across various designs.

Extending Affinity Following Canva’s Acquisition

Canva’s recent acquisition of Affinity makes the platform a full-stack solution for all professional graphic designers, illustrators and typographers. Today, Affinity launches v2.5 with new advanced editing options to supercharge its pro editing performance. Upgrades include:

• Variable Font support: Opens up a new world of typographic design possibilities
• Stroke Width Tool: On-document way of editing the pressure profile of any curve
• Support for ARM64 chips: Optimized for the latest Windows PCs, making Affinity the first creative software with end-to-end native ARM support

Lastly, Canva has also announced that eligible teachers, schools, and nonprofits can sign up for a waitlist. This is for people who want to be the first to access Affinity for free. Canva already offers Canva Pro at no cost to schools and nonprofits worldwide.

This includes more than 60 million students and teachers, and 600,000 charities and registered nonprofits. While these people already benefit from these tools, free licenses are going to be provided to people on the waitlist soon.