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Explaining complex products – how the web can help

Some companies are so innovative that they have a tough job explaining just how their products work.

Take Secerno for example. Conventional wisdom says that to protect valuable information resources, you have to build a wall around it. The trouble is that when you do, the resources lose their value simply because they aren’t easily accessible, and anyway, the people who want to damage your databases, or steal them, may not be outside your company. What about the disgruntled employee passed over for a pay rise? Or the sales rep who is going to work for a competitor?

Secerno’s database security product works by looking at ‘normal’ patterns of use. Then, when something odd happens (the sales rep tries to download all your customer data, for example), alarms are triggered and the potential damage can be stopped.

Now, that isn’t so easy to explain, but an animated diagram on the Secerno web site does it much better than we can do here, just using words. Take a look at http://www.secerno.com/howitworks/diags.html

Animations like this can help potential buyers to appreciate just what it is that your product or service is offering.

Christmas in July

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Christmas comes earlier and earlier doesn’t it? We love creating animated ecards for companies who don’t want to send another batch of cards showing St Paul’s in the snow. With the money they save on postage, they have the option to make a charity donation, which is perhaps a touch more Christmassy in spirit too. Animations like this need to be small enough to email as well, which does take a bit of thought and care, so please don’t leave it till the last minute!

Unusual Assignments

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We’ve created corporate ties for Charles Taylor and branded a pub for an internet security company (so that they could meet exhibition visitors in comfort!). We’ve packaged remote-control cars to launch a new company in the UK (our most successful piece of direct mail ever), and put a DVD in a briefcase to promote a software company to corporate clients. But probably the most visible of our unusual assignments is to produce the ribbons that adorn the trophy awarded to the winners of the Premier League each year.