Introducing Vyond's Enterprise Plan, Ideal for Corporate Use such as Education and Marketing

1. Basics of Vyond

Vyond is a cloud service specialized in animation production. By simply combining thousands of templates, characters, objects, and background music materials, you can create story-driven animated videos in a short time. The main features of Vyond are as follows.

■Easy Operation:

You can create animated videos with operations similar to creating PowerPoint slides.

■Abundant Materials:

You can create original videos using the various templates and characters provided.

■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 includes AI that automatically generates animations (including characters and voice) just by entering a prompt. 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 utilized? Here are some scenarios for its use.

■Education and Human Resource Development

Educational animations that capture interest and enhance motivation

In particular, in education utilizing e-learning, it is necessary to capture the interest of learners and enhance learning effectiveness. Learners are constantly overwhelmed by email and chat notifications, as well as tasks that need to be completed by the end of the day, making it difficult to maintain focus on learning.

By using Vyond, you can capture the interest and attention of learners through storytelling with animation, enhancing learning effectiveness. It is said that 83% of people prefer watching videos over accessing education or information through text or audio. Let's attract the attention of busy learners in the workplace with engaging animations related to their work.

■Marketing and Sales

Achieve new marketing with attractive videos

The world is overflowing with various advertisements, and we receive dozens of direct mail every day. With many similar services available and the speed of developing new features and services significantly increasing, marketing needs to be more attractive and provided more swiftly.

By using Vyond, you can create and publish promotional videos at ten times the speed while allowing traditional marketing resources to focus on more advanced promotions. Additionally, according to research by Wyzowl, while 18% of people prefer reading text, 66% prefer watching videos. Video ads are said to have the highest CTR (click-through rate) among all advertising media. Let's achieve new marketing with engaging animations.

■Other

In addition to the above, by creating videos with Vyond, you can be active in various scenes such as internal announcements, event opening videos, and exhibition eye-catchers.

Are you experiencing any of these concerns?

・Branding: We want to enhance branding with a more unique character.
・Security: There are concerns about security with cloud services.
With Enterprise, these challenges can be addressed with even more advanced solutions!

3. Introducing 5 Features of the Enterprise

The Vyond Enterprise plan includes various features for corporate use, such as high security with SSO (Single Sign-On) and advanced management capabilities.

① Custom Assets

This is a new service that will be launched in the summer of 2024 (as of July when this article was written, it is before the official release).
We will provide completely original characters, outfits, backgrounds, and more as follows.

Creation of Custom Characters
Vyond primarily allows you to create characters by combining pre-made features such as eyes, nose, and mouth, along with clothing. However, by requesting Custom Assets, you can create unique characters that are specific to your company (for example, characters resembling certain individuals). This can be requested flexibly, regardless of traditional character design, allowing you to request creations in different styles.

Creation of Custom Clothing and Objects
If you want to dress your characters in your company uniform, you can request the creation of uniforms with your company logo. The created clothing can be dressed on the Vyond characters as usual and animated. Additionally, you can also request the creation of various objects (Props) including your company products.

Creation of Custom Backgrounds
You can request the creation of background materials and scenes (backgrounds + props, etc.) featuring your company's headquarters or factories. Additionally, by requesting the creation of scene samples that use color schemes aligned with your brand guidelines, you can more easily create animations that are in line with your brand.

*Custom Assets are available only to Enterprise subscribers. An additional optional fee is charged separately from the license fee. Please contact us for more details.

②Secure Suite

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

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

●IP Whitelist
Prevents login from IP addresses not registered in the whitelist, allowing access only from trusted connections.

●Customization of Password Complexity
Administrators can set password requirements.

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

●Expiration of Custom Video Cache
Defines the duration for which data is cached on the AWS server.

●Data Partitioning (Optional)
We will store your video data in a separate database to ensure it does not mix with other companies' video data.

③ Enterprise Trial (Company Trial)

The trial for Enterprise has the following features.

Extension of Free Trial Period
The trial for Enterprise has been extended to 30 days (14 days for contracts other than Enterprise). You can use it for a longer period than the usual contract.

Information on Additional Contracts for Existing Organizations
If someone with the same domain (the part after @) is interested in Vyond and searches for it, it is possible to display information about existing Enterprise contracts within the company and information about additional contracts (this setting can be customized optionally or changed to not display).

④Brand Management Suite

Various features are incorporated to manage the brand, as shown below.

Public Approval
Administrators can request an approval process for animations created by editors. If this setting is enabled, public files such as MP4 cannot be generated unless the approver approves the created video.

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

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

Color Shuffle
You can create a color palette that aligns with your company's brand guidelines. This color palette can be applied to scenes and objects, allowing you to easily create animations that adhere to brand guidelines, as well as create animations in various color patterns.

⑤Shared Space

By utilizing shared spaces, the following becomes possible:
●Company-wide project management is possible - Videos, folders within the space, and hierarchies are displayed uniformly across the organization, making project management very easy.
●Secure management of 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 times are reduced. Videos are stored at the organizational level rather than at the individual user level, so users do not need to 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 - You can share spaces with specific people or groups and restrict content to only those who need it based on their roles.
Access Control - Access levels can be set to view, copy, edit, or administrator, allowing administrators to fully control 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 classification of content. This enables quick and easy onboarding, offboarding, and training.
●Default spaces are automatically shared with all members of the organization. They are ideal for onboarding materials, content used organization-wide, and branding materials.

4. Price

For the pricing of Vyond's Enterprise plan, please see the page below.

>Vyond Subscription Plans and Prices

5. Case Study

We will introduce 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 incorporating training through videos using characters. Comments from employees utilizing Vyond include the following:
"The number of graphic designers is limited, but thanks to Vyond, instructional designers can create engaging and simple videos."
"Customers also recognize the value of the videos and have asked for more to be created." "Personally, I believe I have saved at least 25% of the production time compared to before. I think it is very user-friendly and has the capability to create higher quality videos."

Whole Foods Market (Major U.S. Supermarket)

By utilizing Vyond, we are able to create a wide range of training programs for over 100,000 employees, and the average production time has been reduced by about 75%. Previously, it took 3 to 5 days to complete, but with Vyond, we can produce engaging animated videos in just one day.

At Whole Foods Market, we utilize Vyond for various purposes, such as elegantly finishing PowerPoint presentations with animated GIFs, creating microlearning videos (the latest being 23), and developing original characters. The production staff says, "Animated characters are perfect for promoting diversity. Additionally, for topics where we prefer not to use animated characters in training programs, we use Vyond's graphic elements."

You can check other case studies on the official Vyond website (in English).

6. Summary

This time, we introduced the Enterprise plan of Vyond. The features presented in this blog are available with the Enterprise contract and cannot be used with the Premium/Professional plans.

Human Science has a wealth of experience not only in live-action video production but also in animation video production. We also offer animation video production outsourcing services using Vyond, and in 2023, we became a certified reseller of Vyond. Here, we introduce the benefits of implementing Vyond through Human Science.

・Comprehensive Support
We can support you with procedures before and after purchase, provide training courses, facilitate communication with Vyond providers (in English), and assist in proposing and producing educational content based on your requests.
＞ Vyond (Animation Production) Sales

・Numerous achievements in e-learning production
There are many achievements in effective animation production outsourcing utilizing our know-how, not limited to Vyond.
＞ Vyond Animation Production Outsourcing

The enhancement of educational content using animated videos is expected to increase in necessity in the future. In proportion to this, it is anticipated that various animation video production tools will emerge and their functionalities will also improve. The use of AI will also advance. In such a situation, Vyond is likely to be utilized even more around the world as the optimal tool for creating animated teaching materials. To enable more companies to take advantage of this useful tool, Human Science is offering a 2-week free trial. Please feel free to contact us.

In addition, Human Science offers a variety of services related to educational content, from in-house support for educational content to the production of animated videos and teaching materials. We would be happy to discuss your needs. We support production using Vyond, as well as various other tools.
＞ Human Science: e-Learning Services

In addition, Human Science has a wealth of experience in creating manuals for various products and services. This includes the production of promotional videos and user training content that accompany the manuals. Thus, we can provide one-stop solutions from the proposal and creation of manuals and training texts to the proposal and creation of educational content. Please feel free to contact us.

＞ Human Science: Manual Production Services
＞ Moodle Implementation Support and Operations
＞ e-Learning Material Production
＞ e-Learning Material Translation (Multilingual Support, Localization)