Read on to discover what some of our customers and industry thought leaders have to say about North Plains and our advanced, digital asset management platform.
Diageo PLC
“SmartApprove’s easy to use workflow ensures all our executions are reviewed and approved against the Diageo Marketing Code, a code we take very seriously as a business. Without question SmartBrand is the best rights management tool I have ever come across.”
Stuart Casey
Senior Counsel IP
Diageo PLC
Virgin Holidays
“VYRE has provided Virgin Holidays with a web-based application where all of our rich content is stored centrally and is dynamically updated ready for publication on the web, in brochures and on mobile devices.”
Andrew Sproule
Virgin Holidays
Nokia
“The new site successfully supports the whole internal and external marketing community by presenting brand knowledge in a format that fully engages users, inviting all users to participate in social networking and creating an environment where best practice executions can be showcased.”
Heli Rajasalo
Nokia
Shell
“The team are delighted with the EMM project tool. Much credit to the VYRE team. It has received wide coverage in Shell, with many communications teams interested in knowing more.”
Danny van Otterdyk
Shell
Zoggs
“The perfect solution for Zoggs. We’re able to present our brand in an elegant way with real consistency, from the largest subsidiary we have to the smallest distributer. We’re able to get information out to markets easily and quickly, and above all it’s secure.”
Ben Hornett
Zoggs
Lowe
“Prior to Lowe Go the creation of showreels was an offline process which was time intensive and costly. Now anyone can create showreels with ease. The potential savings are enough to justify investment in VYRE Unify alone.”
Alex Thorogood
Lowe
HarperCollins Publishers
“Implementing Telescope has allowed us to redefine the way we interact with our customers and partners, while also achieving a strong return on investment. North Plains’ tiered approach to its product family has lowered the barriers of entry for many organizations by offering a highly capable, enterprise scalable digital asset management solution to organizations of all sizes.”
Rick Schwartz
CIO
HarperCollins Publishers
Academic Technology Gallaudet University
“With Telescope, we can now digitally preserve and make accessible our university’s extensive collection of original films and videos related to deafness. Using TeleScope, we can now leverage powerful digital workflows and enable the integration of these digital video collections into our curriculum of face-to-face, hybrid, and web-based courses. By taking advantage of TeleScope’s comprehensive permissions model, our video library can be securely accessible by the Gallaudet community, with portions being accessible to K-12 teachers, University teacher education programs, scholars, and researchers from the world-wide community of people interested in deafness.”
Richard Goodrow
Digital Media Systems Engineer
Academic Technology Gallaudet University
Utah Education Network
“Telescope Enterprise Video Management solution integrates with industry video tools like Virage VideoLogger, Final Cut Pro & FlipFactory. The solution handles web video previewing, review/segmenting and downloading better than any other system we looked at.”
Cory Stokes
Enterprise Learning Services Manager
Utah Education Network
Publishers Clearing House
“North Plains understands what we need. They are uniquely focused on the DAM industry. Their domain expertise in both production and publishing workflows gave us a unified view of our marketing and production supply chain. In addition, they have an excellent and proven professional services team. We’re pleased to have them as our solutions partner (for our) major project. When we’re finished, our data will be integrated into one system, essentially abandoning the older system in favor of Telescope, and we’ll also begin automating a significantly larger amount of our print and on-line materials.”
Jon Zerden
Director of Internet and Publishing Technologies
Publishers Clearing House
Frost & Sullivan
“Video usage has become pervasive across the enterprise and is one on the fastest growing rich media assets in organizations today. These organizations face multiple challenges, such as complexities associated with workflows, unique metadata requirements often attributed with managing video content and the need to provide a secure environment for centralized access and distribution. As a result, many are increasingly turning to digital media asset management offerings, such as Telescope Enterprise and Telescope Video Manager, to provide the much-needed workflow optimization, virtual collaboration and file distribution solutions”.
Mukul Krishna
Global Manager, Digital Media Practice
Frost & Sullivan
Arnold Worldwide
“Xinet…really provided the specific tools we were looking for that link into the creative applications and allow us to open up the work to everyone”.
Evan Shore
VP/Creative Systems Manager
Arnold Worldwide
Deutsch L.A
“Xinet has been a valuable tool within our agency, and a value-added service for our clients.”
Bernie Santos
Director of Studio Services
Deutsch L.A
Grey New York
“With the Xinet system, everything is integrated seamlessly. The studio team does a lot of file transferring; setting up FTP sites through the Xinet system has been fast and easy.”
Phil Henry
Technical manager
Grey New York
Gutenberg Networks
“Xinet allows us to be even more responsive to our customers’ need which helps us build tighter relationships with them.”
Laurent Garreau
Le Directeur des Systemes
Gutenberg Networks
Starkey
“Xinet made things simple – I only need to communicate once or twice at the beginning of a new product release and everyone knows where they need to go to look for their materials.”
Jonathan Holt
International Marketing Manager
Starkey
mcgarrybowen
“Xinet is the tool that bridges all of our departments. It takes the guesswork out of identifying assets and allows people to communicate intelligently and focus on the task at hand.”
Maria Shippee
Director of Digital Systems
mcgarrybowen
Solution Set
“Xinet has enabled us to bring catalogs, websites, and marketing programs to fruition faster.”
Phil O’Neil
Database Services Administrator
Solution Set
The Marketing Store
“Xinet is the backbone of our digital execution process.”
Rob Tarpey
Studio Manager
The Marketing Store
Young and Rubicam Brands
“The big advantage for us is being able to generate different user interfaces for different constituencies, while satisfying IT requirements that files exist inside the firewall.”
Steve Gleason
Vice President of Studio Services
Young and Rubicam Brands
Wilson
“Because we are linking to the high-resimage found in the library, we’ve eliminated multiple file duplication. Users know exactly where to place and find the new materials.”
David Barron
Manager of Creative Technology
Wilson
Arbonne
“Nobody has to wait on us to get a file—they know where the assets are, they can search for them by keyword or part number, and they can do that at anytime form anywhere.”
Dave Courtemanche
Production Designer
Arbonne
Athleta
“Our file search is fantastic; I love having the ability to copy and paste a file name into my browser without having to search through a lot of files like I would have if I were just looking through the file system.”
Brent Linford
Prepress Manager
Athleta
Courier
“Instead of having to acquire new images, we’re saving money because we’re able to repurpose images that we otherwise might not gave realized we had in our library.”
Mitchell Turner
Manager of Publishing Production
Courier
XYZ Graphics
“Xinet has been a great selling point with many of our clients&mdashlby offering digital asset management as a service it lets them give us more retouching work, which we really excel at.”
Jim Sutherlin
IT Director
XYZ Graphics
NU Skin
“With Asset Timer, I can set a period of days or months prior to it’s expiration when a photo will be flagged to let us know that it’s about to expire. It’s important that we don’t print any images that will expire in a few months. It would cost hundreds of dollars to reprint them.”
Pete Stott
Digital Imaging Manager
NU Skin
