Introducing Vyond's Enterprise plan, perfect for corporate use such as education and marketing | e-Learning Blog

1. Basics of Vyond

Vyond is a cloud service specialized in animation production. With thousands of templates, characters, objects, and BGM materials to choose from, you can easily create animated videos with a story in a short amount of time. The main features of Vyond are as follows:

■ Easy Operation:

You can create animated videos using the same operations as creating PowerPoint slides.

■Abundant Materials:

You can create original videos using a variety of templates and characters that are available.

■Cloud Services:

You can create animated videos from anywhere as long as you are connected to the internet.

Vyond has a feature called Vyond GO. Vyond GO has AI built in, which automatically generates animations (including characters and voices) just by entering prompts (instructions). For more details, please see the following blog.

＞Vyond Go (AI Video Generation) Tips and Best Practices ① Vyond Go Setup Guidelines
＞Vyond Go (AI Video Generation) Tips and Best Practices ② Vyond Go Practical Examples

2. When can Vyond be used?

In business, when can Vyond be used? Here are some usage scenarios.

■Education and Human Resource Development

Captivating and Motivating Educational Animation

In particular, in education that utilizes e-learning, it is necessary to attract the interest of learners and enhance learning effectiveness. Learners are constantly bombarded with notifications from emails and chats, as well as tasks that must be completed by the end of the day, making it difficult to continue focusing on learning.

By using Vyond, you can enhance the learning effectiveness by capturing the interest and attention of learners through storytelling with animation. It is said that 83% of people prefer watching videos over accessing education and information through text or audio. Use attractive animations related to your business to grab the attention of busy learners in their work.

■Marketing & Sales

Achieve new marketing with attractive videos

In today's world, there are various advertisements overflowing and we are in an era where we receive dozens of DMs every day. With numerous similar services and a significant increase in the development speed of new features and services, marketing also needs to be more attractive and provided more quickly.

By using Vyond, you can create and publish promotional videos at 10 times the speed while focusing on more advanced marketing resources. According to a survey by Wyzowl, 66% of people prefer watching videos over reading text, compared to only 18% who prefer reading. Video ads are said to have the highest CTR (click-through rate) among all advertising media. Let's achieve new marketing success with attractive animations.

■Others

In addition to the above, you can also use Vyond to create videos for internal announcements, event opening videos, exhibition highlights, and more, making it useful in various situations.

[Do you have any of these concerns?]

・Branding: Want to enhance branding with a more unique character
・Security: Cloud services are concerning for security
With Enterprise, it is possible to take a step further and solve these challenges!

3. Introducing 5 Features of Enterprise

Vyond's Enterprise plan includes various features for corporate use, such as high security and management functions, including SSO (Single Sign-On).

① Custom Assets

This is a new service that was released in the summer of 2024 (as of July, when this article was written, it has not been officially released yet).
We will provide completely original characters, clothing, backgrounds, etc. as follows.

Creating Original Characters
Vyond creates characters by combining pre-made features such as eyes, nose, and mouth, but by requesting Custom Assets, you can create your own original characters (such as characters resembling specific individuals). This allows for flexible requests regardless of traditional character design, making it possible to request creation in different styles.

Creating Original Clothing and Objects
If you want to dress your employees in company uniforms, you can request the creation of uniforms with your company logo. The created clothing can be worn and moved by Vyond characters as usual. You can also request the creation of various objects (Props) including your company's products.

Creating Original Backgrounds
You can request to create your own company's headquarters building or factory as background material or scene (background + set with small items). Also, by requesting the creation of scene samples using color schemes that match the brand guidelines, you can easily create animations that are in line with your brand.

※Custom Assets can only be used by Enterprise subscribers. In addition to the license fee, there is also an additional optional fee. Please contact us for more information.

②Secure Suite

In addition to secure data protection with ISO27001 certification, Enterprise can implement the following security measures.

●SSO (Single Sign-On)
Connect with authentication services such as Google Workspace, Office 365, SAML 2.0 (SP and IdP-driven), and achieve single sign-on.

●IP Whitelist
Prevents login from IP addresses not registered on the whitelist and allows access only from trusted connections.

●Customizing Password Complexity
Administrators can set password requirements.

●Brute Force (Brute Force) Login Protection
Administrators can set the number of login attempts until the account is locked.

●Custom Video Cache Expiration
Defines the period in which data is cached on AWS servers.

●Data Partitioning (Optional)
Store your video data in a separate database to prevent it from being mixed with other companies' video data.

③ Enterprise Trial (Company Trial)

The Enterprise trial has the following features:

Extended Free Trial Period
The trial period for Enterprise has been extended to 30 days (14 days for non-Enterprise contracts). You can use it for a longer period than the normal contract.

Additional Contract Information for Existing Organizations
If someone from the same domain (with the same @) searches for Vyond and shows interest, it is possible to display information about an existing Enterprise contract within the company or to show information about an additional contract (this setting can be customized or changed to not be displayed, if desired).

④Brand Management Suite

Various functions are incorporated to manage the brand.

Public Approval
Administrators can request an approval process for animations created by editors. If this setting is enabled, the created video cannot generate public files such as MP4 until it is approved by the approver.

Watermark
Administrators can request editors to set any watermark. By setting things like company logos, it contributes to branding and asset value.

Brand Material Collection
You can create, store, and share materials that follow your company's brand guidelines. Editors can easily create animations that adhere to the brand guidelines using this material collection.

Color Shuffle
You can create a color palette that follows your company's brand guidelines. This color palette can be applied to scenes and objects, making it easy to create animations that adhere to the brand guidelines. Additionally, you can create animations with various color patterns.

⑤Shared Space

By using shared spaces, the following becomes possible.
●Global project management - Videos, folders within the space, and hierarchy are displayed the same way throughout the organization, making project management extremely easy.
●Secure management for teams and third parties - Teams, third parties, and contractors can access only the necessary materials while protecting your confidential information.
●By managing access rights, onboarding and offboarding time is reduced. Videos are saved at the organizational level, not at the individual user level, so users do not waste time transferring videos to team members.
●Creating spaces for specific projects or purposes allows for more efficient project management.

Here are some examples of using shared spaces.

●Secure Content Sharing - Share spaces with specific individuals or groups and restrict content to only those who need it on a role-based basis.
Access Control - Access levels can be set to view, copy, edit, and administrator, allowing administrators to have complete control over the content available to members of the organization.
●Content Organization - Shared Spaces is a powerful organization tool that allows for easy sharing, foldering, and hierarchical categorization of content. This makes onboarding, offboarding, and training quick and easy.
●Default spaces are automatically shared with all members of the organization. This is ideal for materials used during onboarding, content used by the entire organization, branding materials, and more.

4. Price

Please refer to the following page for pricing information on Vyond's Enterprise plan.

Vyond Contract Plans and Prices

5. Case Study

Here are two case studies of companies utilizing Vyond.

American Express

The American Express Global Learning Team is working on creating content for over 5,000 internal and external partners. While we have previously conducted text-based training, we are now also utilizing character-based videos for training. Employees have provided the following comments using Vyond:
"The number of graphic designers is limited, but thanks to Vyond, instructional designers are now able to create attractive and simple videos."
"Our customers also recognize the value of videos and have asked for more to be created." "Personally, I believe we have saved at least 25% of production time. It is very user-friendly and has features that allow us to create higher quality videos."

Whole Foods Market (a leading American supermarket)

By utilizing Vyond, we were able to create a wide range of training programs for over 100,000 employees, and also reduce the average production time by approximately 75%. Previously, it took 3-5 days to complete, but with Vyond, we can now create attractive animated videos in just one day.

At Whole Foods Market, we use Vyond for various purposes such as creating PowerPoint animations with a sense of style, producing microlearning videos (23 of the latest ones), and creating original characters. Our production team says, "Animation characters are perfect for promoting diversity. And for topics where we don't want to use animation characters in our training programs, we use Vyond's graphic elements."

Other case studies can be found on Vyond's official website (English).

6. Summary

This time, we introduced the Enterprise plan for Vyond. The features we are introducing in this blog are only available with an Enterprise contract and cannot be used with the Premium/Professional plan.

At Human Science, we have a wide range of experience in not only live-action video production, but also animation video production. In addition, we offer animation video production services through Vyond and became a certified reseller in 2023. Let us introduce the benefits of introducing Vyond through Human Science.

・Enhanced Support
We can provide support for pre- and post-purchase procedures, as well as offer training courses and assist with communication with Vyond (in English). We can also support the creation of educational content based on your requests.
＞ Vyond (animation production) sales

・Numerous e-learning production achievements
We have a lot of experience in creating effective animations using our know-how, not limited to Vyond.
＞ Vyond Animation Production Agency

The enhancement of educational content using animation videos is expected to become even more necessary in the future. As a result, we can expect various animation video production tools to continue to emerge and their functions to become more advanced. The use of AI will also continue to advance. In such a situation, Vyond will continue to be utilized worldwide as the optimal tool for creating animation teaching materials. In order to further utilize this useful tool in more companies, Human Science is offering a 2-week free trial. Please feel free to contact us.

In addition, Human Science provides a variety of services related to educational content, from in-house support to the production of animation videos and teaching materials. We would be happy to discuss with you. We also support various tools, not just Vyond, for production.
＞ Human Science: e-Learning Services

In addition, Human Science has a large number of achievements in manual creation for various products and services. Among them, there are also achievements in creating introduction videos for products and services, as well as user education content. From proposing and creating manuals and training texts to proposing and creating educational content, we can provide one-stop support. Please feel free to consult with us.

＞ Human Science: Manual Creation Service
＞ Moodle Implementation Support and Operation
＞ e-Learning Material Creation
＞ e-Learning Material Translation (Multilingual Support, Localization)