Frequently Asked Questions

INSPIRE™ is a hosted, Web-based, single source hub for creative project management and communications. It optimizes the collaborative participation of your creative team, account managers, vendors and clients. It allows all authorized participants of any type of creative project to review, revise, and approve creative and administrative elements of projects… from anywhere… at any time. INSPIRE optimizes collaboration management of conceptual design, visual design, film/video project design, resource scheduling, approvals, and more.

It is both. INSPIRE™ is all about extraordinary collaboration for the business of creativity. Well-managed collaboration has never been more crucial in retaining clients and maintaining distinctive brands.

More than ever, business is about effectiveness, efficiency and profitability, while creativity has always been about engaging the human heart through expressing the extraordinary. So, the business of creativity is about creating for profit. A creative enterprise excels when the client, business, and creative decision-makers are on the same page – literally! INSPIRE™ puts them there.

Some of the benefits of INSPIRE include:

• An easy-to-access community canvas for the creative development of any project.
• An easy-to-use, single source, hosted solution for documented and time-stamped communications about assigned accountabilities, revisions, and approvals.
• A source of data for tracking, and reporting of project workflow and results.
• Reduced cost and inconvenience related to meetings, and redundant emails.
• Increased efficiency in the creative process and application of human resources, and greater effectiveness through team collaboration with anyone…anywhere… 24/7.
• Integrated creativity, project collaboration and knowledge management.
• Improved productivity, work flow, organization and time management.

INSPIRE™'s unique proprietary bundling of project management tools and creative development solutions, allows individual or group management of workflow and development of creative projects at assigned, secured levels of access and revision control! Project administrators can setup projects using the New Project Admin Wizard, and maintain control using the INSPIRE Administration Module (See "Module Content"). Only project administrators have access to this area of the system so project control is determined by accountability of roles.

INSPIRE's™ functionality centers around a room design in which users can enter rooms for documentation and conceptualization, and production rooms for design, video, and audio. There are also integrated functions for administration, Gantt Chart application, and Calendar management.

Access to each room of the system is three-tiered —Agency, Client and Vendor — and within those levels, rooms can be turned on and turned off for specific users, making sure that no one sees anything they shouldn't. In addition, users can be given View access (read only), Upload access or Upload and Download access, further tightening the reins.

The Comment Board system throughout INSPIRE™ creates a virtual paper trail, creating instant accountability.

Access to INSPIRE™ is simply done through an URL and your personal security credentials that are determined at set-up (User ID and password).

It's simple. INSPIRE™'s robust sophistication is "under the covers," so for users, every tool within INSPIRE™ is easy to use and requires less learning curve than the simplest of office suite programs.

"Wizards" walk all users through each step of the administrative set-up process for all forms of use.

INSPIRE™'s pricing is based on the number of people who will use it, band width used, and the amount of storage space you need, making it affordable for any size company looking for an all-in-one solution for managing a production.

INSPIRE™'s modular design allows you to create the tool that fits your creative business needs and to expand capabilities as you grow!

Providing the ultimate benefits of portal technology, INSPIRE™ is your single point of reference for productivity, creativity, accountability, and profitability.

The most effective development tool a creative business can use to optimize talent is the one that expedites agreement. INSPIRE™ does that.

The most efficient management tool a creative business can use to maximize profit is the one that expedites authorization. INSPIRE™ does that.

Real-time collaboration. Documented accountability. Efficiency. Effectiveness. Profit... Some of things that make INSPIRE™ the value it is.

INSPIRE™ is a Web-based, hosted solution, so there is no technology architecture compatibility issue. There are minimum system requirements, but those are similar to most contemporary Internet access business computer systems.

Support that is included with INSPIRE™ includes:

• 24/7 data center uptime.
• 2-hour guaranteed response to emailed or phoned-in support inquiries.
• Live customer service between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., CST.
• Web-based training at account creation.
• DVD-based video training modules for continuing education or new-user.

For advertising agencies, corporate advertising and marketing departments, design studios, animation houses, and other commercial creative shops, effective resource management and efficient creative collaboration is a premier client expectation. Competitive advantage can depend on optimizing creative talent, resource management, and process management, and efficiency accountability. Competitive advantage is the prerequisite of profitability.

Absolutely. Participants can be granted download access to the finished elements and project components they contributed to the project for portfolio use and personal development evaluations. They can also use the documented acceptance and influence their input had on any project.

For more information or to schedule a demo, simply contact via email at sales@epicsoft.net.