JLPinnix to Provide Graphics Support to NerveWire
October, 2000
Two More Industry Leaders Select JLPinnix for PowerPoint Support
In October, 2000, two more prominent leaders in the respective industries, Viant Corporation and Robertson Stephens Investment Bankers, selected JLPinnix for PowerPoint support.
Viant Corporation, (Nasdaq: VIAN), is a leading builder of digital businesses. The company builds digital businesses for some of the world's leading corporations. As an integrated strategy and solutions partner, Viant has pioneered powerful approaches for successfully incubating and launching e-commerce enterprises. With an emphasis on building a dynamic culture that attracts and excites the preeminent talent in the industry, Viant has grown organically with offices located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Robertson Stephens, Inc., based in San Francisco, California, and its international affiliates is the leading full-service investment bank focused exclusively on growth companies. The firm provides a comprehensive set of investment banking products and services, including equity underwriting, sales & trading, research, M&A advisory, convertible securities, private capital, equity derivatives, and corporate and executive services. The company has more than 1,500 employees worldwide with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, Palo Alto, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Munich and Tel Aviv.
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JLPinnix to Provide PowerPoint Support for Springboard 2000 Conference
The Center for Women & Enterprise and the National Women's Business Council have selected JLPinnix to provide PowerPoint support for their Springboard 2000—New England, a Women's Venture Capital Forum, on November 3, 2000 at Harvard Business School.
Springboard 2000—New England is part of a national initiative designed to increase the investment channels for women entrepreneurs and facilitate investments in women-led firms by venture capital, angel and corporate investors across the United States.
The event will attract entrepreneurs and investors throughout the New England region. Women entrepreneurs, hand-picked by a committee of leading venture capitalists and service providers, will be rigorously screened for an aggressive, growth oriented business plan, a talented management team, large target markets and a clear competitive advantage. At the forum, each participant will present a short summary of her business plan and will be given the opportunity to meet with investors in a one-on one setting.
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September, 2000
MassAV Launches New Website Revamped by JLPinnix
In September, Mass Audio Visual, New England's largest provider of audio visual equipment rental and technical support, launched its new web site revamped by JLPinnix. The site was revamped to facilitate viewer interest and provide massAV clients with quick access to the information they need in selecting an audio visual resource. The site features, among other things, improved navigation, pop-up windows, an intro and demonstration prepared in Macromedia Flash, and quick access to news and information on client events supported by massAV.
According to Chris Gasbarro, Marketing Manager for massAV, "with the enhancements added to our site by JLPinnix, massAV has entered the 21st century."
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JLPinnix Provides PowerPoint Support for Interbank Capital Partners National Meeting
In September, 2000, The RDW Group and JLPinnix joined forces to prepare more than 20 PowerPoint presentations for the Interbank Capital Partners "Controlled Growth—Partners for Success" National Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.
InterBank Capital Partners is a large investment banking firm which structures and executes financial transactions for its clients. Through its three operating divisions (Merchant Banking, Investment Funds, and Hospitality), Interbank provides clients with a variety of services including income and equity investment products, financial and strategic advisory services, investment and merchant banking, and hospitality and real-estate related capabilities.
TheRDW Group, with offices in Providence, Rhode Island and Worcester, MA., is New England's fifth largest media agency.
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Spray Ventures Partners Selects JLPinnix for Web Site Redesign
Spray Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that contributes capital and industry expertise to emerging medical technology companies, has selected JLPinnix to redesign its company web site.
The new site, to be launched in early November, will feature an enhanced graphical design, improved organization and navigation, a java-based ticker tape scroll with pop-up windows on the home page, quick access to information on Spray Venture's portfolio of companies, and a news and information page (with pop-up windows) where visitors can read about recent company activities.
Spray Venture Partners works closely with clinical and technical founders to form companies to develop, evaluate and market innovative technologies for major unmet medical needs.
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August, 2000
CSC and JLPinnix Collaborate on Interactive Training Project for Schlumberger Limited
The Consulting Group of Computer Sciences Corporation and JLPinnix have joined forces to prepare a modular Interactive Training Program in Macromedia Flash that will be utilized by more than 20,000 employees worldwide of Schlumberger Limited. This Web and CD-based training program will provide instruction on the use of Schlumberger's new InTouchSupport.com on-line support and knowledge management system.
Using InTouchSupport.com, Schlumberger's Oilfield Services InTouch Engineers will be better equipped to accumulate, maintain, and deliver reliable information in a timely manner, and act as world-wide brokers for knowledge management. Their field personnel will be better equipped to obtain immediate information and expert advice, 24 hours a day, and from wherever they are.
According to Cathie Leys, Senior Partner for CSC, "JLPinnix openly shared ideas and techniques to help us provide a superior product to our client. They ask penetrating questions that show their high level of knowledge and technical capabilities. They immediately understood what we needed and provided a usable layout and demo within two days. Furthermore, they delivered what we asked for and did not try to add extras or get distracted from the immediate goal."
Schlumberger is a $7 billion international technical company selling products and services that improve the productivity of its customers. The company is comprised of three business segments: Oilfield Services, Resource Management Services and Test & Transactions. Oilfield Services is the leading supplier of services and technology to the international petroleum industry. It provides virtually every type of service to the upstream exploration and production industry.
The Consulting Group is a division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). CSC helps clients in industry and government use information technology to achieve strategic and operational objectives. With almost 60,000 employees in more than 800 offices worldwide, the company tailors solutions from a broad suite of integrated service offerings, including e-business
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CSC Development & Learning Group Selects JLPinnix
The Development & Learning Group for the Consulting Group of Computer Sciences Corporation has selected JLPinnix for several professional development projects requiring instructional design support and a series of Web and CD-based training tools in Macromedia Flash. As an integral component of CSC's on-going training and professional development initiatives, these interactive training tools will be used to provide distance learning to more than 3,000 Consulting Group field consultants nationwide.
Collectively, JLPinnix will provide instructional design support, scriptwriting, narration, digital video support, and a series of modular-based interactive Web and CD-based training tools prepared in Macromedia Flash.
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July, 2000
JLPinnix Designs New Site for eHealth Firm
In July, 2000, ARiA Marketing, a Boston-based eHealth firm specializing in strategic marketing and research services for healthcare vendors and consultants, launched its new web site designed by JLPinnix. The marketing site features a new splash intro prepared in Macromedia Flash, a high tech design, improved organization and navigation, and new mechanisms to capture leads and other pertinent information on visitors to site.
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JLPinnix Client Base Continues Strong Growth
In July, two more prominent Boston-based firms, CEOExpress and Stream International, joined the rapidly growing list of clients utilizing the graphic support provided by JLPinnix.
CEOExpress, is one of the nation's leading Web service infrastructure providers of expertly edited online content for executives and their enterprises. CEOExpress was developed to organize the best resources on the web for busy executives and now hosts over 1.5 million visits from over 300,000 unique users per month.
In 2000, the company launched four new sites; WiredCEO, the first wireless Internet desktop for executives; JournalistExpress, the media professional's desktop on the Web; MDExpress, the desktop organizer for physicians; and LawyerExpress, the attorney's interface to the Internet.
CEOExpress Company has been featured in many of the world's most influential business magazines including Fortune, Bloomberg, Business Week, Fast Company, Wired and, most recently, Forbes, where it was named among the "Best of the Web."
Stream International is a $236 million dollar company dedicated to one goal: world-class technical support. Through 13 support centers around the world, Stream resolves over 2 million technical support issues per month, in thirteen languages. More than 6,000 employess provide technical support over the telephone and the Internet to major corporations and to customers of leading technology vendors.
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JLPinnix Helps Make OneSource Global Rally a Major Success
The OneSource Information Services Summer Sales Rally and All Hands Meeting, held July 17-21, 2000 in Danvers, MA. was a major success thanks to the PowerPoint support provided by JLPinnix. The graphic artists at JLPinnix prepared over 25 high impact presentations for a host of speakers from around the world.
According to Ed Hutchinson, the Director of Marketing for OneSource, "the presentations prepared by JLPinnix took us to new heights and made us look like a whole new company." "I can't tell you how much praise I received from everyone in the organization, from the CEO down through the ranks of the entire company."
OneSource, headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts, provides Web-based business information to professionals who need quick access to reliable corporate, industry and market intelligence. Their Business Browser product line integrates comprehensive and up-to-date business and financial information on over one million public and private companies from more than 25 information providers drawing upon over 2,500 sources of content. These sources include both textual information, such as news, trade press, executive biographies and analyst reports, and numeric information, such as company financial results, stock quotes and industry statistics.
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June, 2000
JLPinnix Selected for Web Design by Renown Sports and Entertainment Management Firm
A Los Angeles based Sports and Entertainment Management company, Nixon & Associates, has selected JLPinnix to design a new high profile, high impact web site. The firm is owned by former Los Angeles Laker and NBA Allstar, Norman Nixon.
Nixon & Associates, who represents among others, Peter Warrick, the fourth player selected in the recent NFL draft by the Cincinnati Bengals, has managed the careers of numerous professional athletes most notably Jalen Rose (Indiana Pacers), Samaki Walker (San Antonio Spurs, Gary Grant (Portland Trail Blazers), Larry Smith (Jacksonville Jaguars), and Maurice Taylor (L.A. Clippers).
Nixon & Associates has also performed contract negotiations on behalf of hip-hop group TLC, rapper and actor LL Cool J, and actress, director, producer, choreographer, singer and stage star, Debbie Allen.
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Consulting Group Tabs JLPinnix for Intranet Design Support
The Consulting Group of Computer Sciences Corporation has selected JLPinnix to provide design and consulting support for their corporate intranet site. The site provides news and information to a community of 5,000 employees at various business units and sales locations around the world.
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May, 2000
JLPinnix Designs New Web Site for WireBridge Corporation
In May, 2000, WireBridge Corporation, a Boston-based business-to-business market development agency launched its new web site designed by JLPinnix. The marketing site features a new splash intro prepared in Macromedia Flash, a high tech design, improved organization and navigation, and new mechanisms to capture leads and other pertinent information on visitors to site.
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April, 2000
JLPinnix and Harpell/Martins & Co Join Forces to Promote Large Real Estate Project
JLPinnix was selected by Harpell/Martins & Co., one of the fastest growing integrated marketing organizations in New England, to assist in their development of a series of marketing initiatives to promote the sale of a 228,601 square foot, thirteen story, class "A"office building located in the prestigious Back Bay district of Boston, Massachusetts on behalf of Peracon, Inc. For the project, JLPinnix prepared a web-based PowerPoint presentation that offers interested parties an overview of the property. The presentation can be viewed on line at the Peracon, Inc. website by clicking this link.
Harpell/Martins & Company is a leading integrated marketing organization dedicated to helping companies meet their marketing, sales and business goals. Founded in 1982, the agency currently has 60 employees and annual billings of $64 million. HMC provides strategic marketing services, advertising, media planning and buying, public relations and Internet programs through its three operating divisions, Harpell/Martins Marketing Communications, Harpell/Martins Public Relations and NetImpressions, HMC's online marketing division.
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March, 2000
CSC Extends Corporate Partnership Agreement with JLPinnix
The Consulting Group of Computer Sciences Corporation has inked a new Corporate Partnership Agreement with JLPinnix. The new agreement which becomes effective May 1, 2000, extends the graphic design support that JLPinnix has been providing CSC since 1998. Under the agreement, JLPinnix will continue to provide highly skilled graphic design professionals working full-time at Consulting Group sites.
According to Rob Ayres, Vice President for CSC, "JLPinnix transforms ideas and direction in compelling messages and graphics that leverage results. They have a unique ability to synthesize complicated ideas and concepts into clear messages that the market can understand. Their response time is rapid from basic idea to finished results."
Computer Sciences Corporation is one of the world's ten largest internet service firms, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), with revenues of $7.7 billion for FY99.
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WireBridge Communication Group Joins Growing List of JLPinnix Clients
WireBridge Communication Group, a Boston-based business-to-business market development agency, has joined a growing list of strategic marketing firms utilizing the services of JLPinnix. WireBridge has tapped JLPinnix for both presentation and web design support. WireBridge specializes in helping companies grow through highly focused, value-based marketing communications programs.
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January, 2000
JLPinnix and Aria Marketing Collaborate on Marketing Initiatives for athenahealth.com
JLPinnix collaborated with Aria Marketing, Inc., a marketing, research and consulting firm, on a new web-based strategic marketing initiative for athenahealth.com. JLPinnix redesigned the athenahealth.com web site to complement Aria's new logo, branding, and marketing strategies.
Aria Marketing provides customers with personalized, research-based marketing through a range of flexible service options, including consulting, workshops, advisory services, and proprietary research.
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JLPinnix to Provide Graphics Support to NerveWire
Under an agreement signed in January, 2000, JLPinnix will provide graphic design support to NerveWire, Inc. This support includes both PowerPoint and digital video support. NerveWire is a business-to-business internet professional services firm that reinvents businesses for the digital age by rapidly
deploying digital strategy and e-business solutions. The company, founded in August 1999, is focused on helping clients transform their business models from industrial age value chains to digital age value webs through value chain reconstruction and the development of digital markets.
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