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What can Compass Creative do for you?

In today’s fast-paced, technology-based marketplace, companies need to master all the aspects of information technology. The better you communicate with customers, vendors and internally as well the more successful you will be. The various formats and technologies used to create marketing, training and sales collateral go well beyond the traditional printed media of the past. Today’s customer wants information on demand. Today’s employees need instant information as well. They all need access to marketing materials, corporate policies, and other urgent information.

Compass can help you navigate the jungle of file formats, protocols and distribution mechanisms to create an on-demand internet presence unrivaled by your competitors. Using the latest tools and technologies from Macromedia, Adobe, Apple and others, our team of experienced Web professionals will create a web experience for your customers that stands apart from the crowd rather than getting lost in it.

Creative Multimedia Services

World Wide Web

Communicating with your customers in today’s high-tech marketplace requires a sophisticated and reliable presence on the Web. Compass helps you utilize the newest and most powerful multimedia tools to effectively communicate with customers, and potential customers, via the World Wide Web. From eye catching, dynamic websites, to interactive multimedia presentations, to streaming audio and video productions, Compass will lead you there.

Web Site Design

Designing web pages and web sites form the foundation of a corporate internet presence. Compass can help you develop the look and feel of your site and can create the HTML for the pages. Through the Compass eServices division, we can even host your website on reliable, high capacity servers.

Electronic Documents and Forms

Often corporations want to make traditional typeset materials and forms avaiable through the web. The easiest way to do this is to use the industry standard PDF format which can reproduce your printed materials exactly. Compass can take documents in electronic form that have been produced in word processors or page layout programs and convert them to the PDF format. Compass can also design new original typeset documents and forms for use in both the printed and internet mediums.

Multimedia

If you need an eye catching animation to grab the attention of your customers or technical animations demonstrating your products or animations for internal employee training, Compass can help make your project a success through high-quality Flash animations. Flash technology can be used to create a wide variety of animation types from the simple to the extremely complex and yet the animations are compact and use relatively little network bandwidth.

Another option for enhancing the content of your website is to include streaming media, either audio or video. Compass can take existing audio or video produced by your company and convert them into the appropriate formats suitable for streaming over the internet. The media can then be made available on your website as an on-demand audio or video stream.

Technologies

Compass has expertise in working with the lastest industry standards in web and multimedia design. These include:

• Markup Languages — HTML4.0, XHTML 1.0 and XML
• Bitmapped Graphics — Photoshop, GIF, JPEG and PNG
• Vector Graphics — EPS, PDF and SVG
• Animation — Animated GIF and Flash
• Audio/Video — MP3, MPEG4 and QuickTime VR

Video Production

Compass can tape and produces many types of corporate videos such as product introductions, corporate events and traning videos. We can then distribute them for you via the internet: either on-demand or as live streaming media.

Training Video

How much time does your company spend training new employees? Is much of the training repetitive in nature? Compass helps you make impressive training videos to be served on demand, over the internet. As you hire employees, they can be trained using any computer connected to the internet. Faster training that is more convenient to the new employees and to their managers is the result. This is particularly cost-effective if sales offices are distributed around the country. Sales training on new products and corporate practices can be done via the internet — without the expense, inefficiencies, and down time caused by bringing everyone together in one place.

Corporate Events

Does your company hold employee appreciation events? Do you periodically have company-wide awards and promotion announcements? Often these types of events have big impact on employee morale. This impact is missed on those employees who are unable to attend. The impact is also a one-time boost as the memory quickly fades. Imagine if these types of live events were captured on video and made available internally on-demand. Now employees need not miss out on the benefits of these events and the information disseminated at them. In addition, such videos can be used as a recruiting tool to attract the best employees.

Product Introductions

One area that potentially has the biggest impact on sales are product introductions. Whether introduced at a trade show or produced internally, these product introductions consume a great deal of resources for a one-time event. By capturing these events on video, your company can leverage this investment by reaching a much greater audience over the internet. Compass can create video that can be re-played at any time on-demand by customers or can create a one-time streaming video feed.

Software and Database Development

Compass specializes in solving large data management problems and making corporate data available via web-based solutions. Many proprietary solutions seem cost effective during development. As the production system expands, hidden licensing costs arise that kill that cost effectiveness. Compass uses open source technologies to build reliable solutions tailored to your needs. Performance increases as your company grows. The licensing costs do not.

eCommerce Store

Complex internet storefronts are a snap to build with the osCommerce software. Compass can supply the technical expertise to quickly put your company’s web store online.

Web-based Applications

Do you have a vision? Do you have an idea for that next killer application that would revolutionize your business? Could that application propel your company to dominance in your market? Using the latest open source technologies (see sidebar) from Perl to Java to JavaScript, and backed by powerful database engines, we can build exactly the dynamic, exciting application you had in mind.

Corporate Data Warehouse

Many corporations have numerous separate databases to store all their critical data. These systems are typically not well integrated, if at all. Compass has developed proprietary Adaptive Data Management middleware called Plexus™ that we can use to rapidly develop databases and mission critical applications. The nature of the Plexus™ system is such that it is then easy to add new data types (thereby extending existing databases) and easy to add new databases that can then be integrated into the existing databases and applications.

Technologies

Compass has developed web-based applications for more than 10 years. The Compass team has successfully built enterprise quality programs using the following technologies:

• Programming — JavaScript, Java, C/C++, Perl and PHP
• Server-Side Technologies — Perl/CGI, Java/Servlets and EJBs
• Databases — mySQL and Oracle

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Last updated May 22, 2005.

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