Here we have compiled some of the greetings we made in the past year. If you like what you see and would like us to make one for your organisation, drop us a line. We would love to cook up something good for you too.

2011 – Ideas behind Inventions

A fun animated greeting card exploring the idea of how some of the great inventions took place.

2010- Heal the World

2009 was an impactful year. The year that the world was deprived of one of it’s greatest legends – Michael Jackson. The same year the UN Climate Change Conference – Hopenhagen took place. Our greeting was a tribute to Michael Jackson and the message he left us with – Heal The World …

2009:  9-the magical number

The magic number 9 was the core element in this interactive greeting to welcome in change for the new year – the year 2009.

2008: Just take our WOR(d)K for IT !

2007- Whose time is it anyway

A fun animated greeting. Notice the world clock? It shows your time as well as ours.

Do stay a while!

2006-Think, Feel, Act …

2005 was a year that was wrecked by multiple calamities. Our greeting for the new year urges people to think, feel and act in time and to usher in a hope for a safer and happier new year.

The  Need
Our client – an HVAC manufacturing company – approached us to help improve their product selection and ordering process. Their current product selection process was cumbersome with a high dependency on skilled Sales staff. All that the Sales team had at their disposal were traditional and hard-to-maintain collateral like data sheets, powerpoints and brochures.

Our Solution
We proposed an interactive Product Selection Guide. The solution captures the knowledge of Sales team and product experts to suggest items based on parameters specified by the user and ensures that the right product is chosen.

The user gets a visual navigation to drill down product options. There are interactive guides to help define his selection parameters. The solution suggests products based on the parameters defined by the user.

We studied the data sheets and graphs from the client and created algorithms based on which interactive graphs were designed for product comparison and selection.

Product information was made contextual, visual and interactive to aid the client. The solution architecture supports easy maintenance and updates.

Solution helps to close the sales deal faster with an in-built ordering and accessories selection module. User can also refer back to previous orders.

Product Selection Guide can be easily used by the Sales team and customer both. The application is designed with a clear user focus and care has been taken to see that the interfaces are intuitive and easy to understand.

Highlights

• Guided product selection
• Selection-based product suggestions
• Product comparison
• eCollateral
• Schedule multiple product orders

The Small Idea
An Ideafarms product that helps you manage all your incoming calls – receive, reject or send calls to voicemail – depending on the time of the day or the person calling you.

The Need
We’ve all had calls from those pesky telecallers at odd times of the day and wished that we could just do away with them somehow. The idea for this Ideafarms product stemmed from that need and grew into much more – to become a wholesome solution to manage all your incoming calls.

We designed this one keeping the needs of a business user in mind. We know you travel, we know you attend meetings and don’t want anyone disturbing you and we know you juggle multiple numbers.

Our Solution
WhizPhone is a web application to help you manage your incoming calls by creating your own call rules. You get to decide the action you want to take with the call – depending on the caller or what time they are calling. With WhizPhone, you get a new number and use this one number to manage all your calls. Your WhizPhone number stays the same even when you travel, change your job or your phone.

Highlights

• One number to manage all your calls
• Caller based call rules
• Time-based call rules
• Accept or Reject calls or send them to voicemail
• Contact book integrated
• Call log & inbox to hear voice mail messages

The Small Idea
Quality and product features are increasingly considered a given. In such a situation, your Sales guys can add value by giving the customer a way to ‘virtually’ experience the actual product.

The  Need
Krupp Elastomertechnik had a new Tire Building Machine they wanted to showcase at a Tire Expo. The only problem was that it was still on the drawing boards and all they had to demo the machine were scale models and videos of their older machines which wouldn’t cover the features of the latest machine. Assembling the new machine and shooting the videos in time for the Expo was close to impossible.

Our Solution
We proposed animated 3D demos to simulate the functionality of the machine. But we didn’t stop there. We designed a solution which is ideal for showcasing products at events like Industry Trade Shows.

The solution contains both interactive and standalone modules and uses the power of 3D animation to give potential customers a virtual experience of the real machine.

Built for a trade show, we also threw in goodies like a module to capture the valuable on-ground feedback.

TBM was a big hit.

Highlights

• Interactive and Self-running modes.
• Step-by-step demonstration of product features.
• 3D animated demos.
• Real-time Feedback and Customer information.

The Small Idea
Easily manage any last-minute changes to the sequence of your event – be it the speakers or the presentation.

The Need
Our client, a global automotive company had hired us to design the presentation for an International Manager’s Program – an annual event in their organisation. Having been their Design & IT partners for many years, we understood their real need.

We understand that any event of this scale, with people flying in from all over the globe and a number of speakers & presentations, anything could go wrong at the last minute. Which is why we gave them something better than just a presentation.

Our Solution
We designed an engine to manage the proceedings of the event in real-time. Real-time Proceedings Manager (RPM) has a cool dashboard that let’s you easily change the sequence of speakers or presentations, their names, information or photograph to accomodate any last minute changes. The audience need never comes to know!

Highlights

• Change sequence of speakers, their names or bios
• Change sequence of presentations and information about related presenters
• Coffee & Lunch break sections.
• Change music to match the mood
• A beautiful animated ending sequence

The Small Idea
Collateral 2.0 – A Product Configurator to empower the Sales guy during his Sales process. You tell the system your need and it suggests the right product for you. 

 The Need

Our client, a manufacturer and supplier of converged IP Testing solutions were in dire need of Collateral 2.0. They have complex product combinations that are unique to the customer’s testing requirements and network configuration. The Sales personnel have to be trained to remember the various combination of products to be able to respond to the customer’s requirements on-the-go. The only collateral the Sales guys had at their disposal was hard-to-update print collateral and powerpoints.

Our Solution
Test System Configurator is an intelligent product configurator that helps the Sales team guide the customer through the product selection process in a step-by-step manner.

The solution builds a summary of the customer’s selection and even allows you to print, email or save the selections for future reference.

Up-to-date, contextual and interactive product information eliminates the need for extensive technical training of the sales personnel. The concept reduces dependency on traditional sales collateral which are usually hard to update.

A very useful feature of the solution are the interactive demos which help eliminate the need to lug around heavy equipment for live product demos.

Highlights

• Product configurator
• Selection-based suggestions
• Interactive Sales demos

The Small Idea
Get a feel of what your house will look like even while it’s being constructed!

The Need
Remember when you wanted to go whacky with the  colors on your house wall? And the tiny color patches in the pamphlets the paint guy showed you was no help at all? And for the life of you, you couldn’t figure out if that orange wall will go with your new blue chair?

Our Solution
We know exactly what that feels like. Which is why we  came up with “Build Your Own House”. It’s a simple but brilliant tool that helps you select the colors of the wall, get a panoramic view of your house and also select the kind of flooring and furniture you want.

Highlights

• Change wall colors to select the color you like
• Place Furniture
• Try different flooring options
• Different wall colors for different rooms
• Explore & Visualize the look of your entire house

Demo (you break it, you buy it)

The Small Idea
A tool to help the on-field trainer collect the right training instructions for the day

Your  Need
Training of field workers can pose quite a few challenges for any global organization. Installation instructions are usually location and language dependent. Product installation/assembly norms can also vary with location. In such a situation, dependency on a semi-literate workforce or contract workers just adds to the confusion.

Our client was looking for a way to overcome these challenges as well as standardizing the mode of delivery of installation instructions across the organization.

Our Solution
The Virtual Guide – Selection, Installation and Maintenance is a tool we designed to empower trainers and supervisors in the field to organize contextual training content on-demand.

Installation specifications and instructions are usually location and product dependent. The tool ensures that the instructors always have up-to-date and contextual training material.

Use of rich media and real-time 3D navigation tools offers a presentation style that is more easily consumed compared to traditional training methods. Field staff can interactively view various assemblies, identify the products and place the components easily and understand the sequence of installation visually.

The modular architecture of the solution ensures up-to-date training content.

Features like live reporting during installation and other Project Management make this more than a training tool and much more business friendly than any standard training software available on the market today.

Highlights

• Use of rich media and real-time 3D navigation tools.
• Interactively view assemblies, identify products and place the components.
• Language Neutrality – Visually understand the sequence of installation.
• Tailor training content according to the different teaching and learning styles.
• Access to contextual training content across various locations.
• Standardization of  delivery of training across the organization.