What Clients Say About UsThe Advertising Educational Foundation"The Advertising Educational Foundation has had a very successful six-year-plus partnership with Animus Rex, who created and continues to develop, enhance and maintain www.aef.com, the Web site of the Advertising Educational Foundation. The Animus Rex staff is creative, thoughtful and responsive. They not only look for a "better" resolution to a situation, they search for the "best" resolution. The AEF and Animus Rex will continue to work together to make aef.com the best it can be." Paula Alex Baruch College, City University of New York"Most Web creators/producers tend to be either technically proficient OR artistically talented-a split, I think, more evident in this field than in many others. And even the technically proficient are often highly impractical, creating technical feats neither needed nor effective. "I find that Animus Rex offers a rare combination of technical mastery, artistic talent, and strategic proficiency. Supporting all of this is an organizational ability that I think is crucial for developing websites that work, especially sites like ours that contain large amounts of interrelated information. "The Animus Rex team also listens, which sounds simple, but most people, in any field, haven't mastered this seemingly simple skill." Michael Gillespie Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
I write to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude for the outstanding work that your team did in connection with our new web site. We could not be more pleased with the result. I would like to extend our thanks for the excellent work done by all of those who contributed to this project... Your firm has our unqualified endorsement and we look forward to working with you again soon.
Michael A. Brille Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP"Animus Rex continuously demonstrates a hard-to-find combination of talent, service, and smarts. I've yet to see a better team at any company of its size, and highly recommend them as the best value of service in its class." Lynn Tellefsen Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs"Since the launch of our new site created by Animus Rex six months ago, our traffic has more than doubled! The new site system (Eskort) is much easier to use than our old one, and we have received numerous compliments on how well organized the site is, thanks to the many hours of thought and work that Animus put into it. All the expert staff at Animus Rex are extremely helpful and pleasant to work with. They have gone the extra mile to make our site a success, including planning in advance for this enormous increase in traffic. Now that the site is up, they continue to give us excellent support. We highly recommend their services." Madeleine Lynn The City Cook
"I brought Animus Rex my idea for TheCityCook.com and they turned it into a
stylish, effective and seamlessly functioning site. They accomplished this
using much more than programming or computer code.
"First they were strategic and imaginative, seeing the potentials of my ideas and making them work. "Second, they were smart and skilled, plus patient with me when everything we were doing together was, for me, either new or unfamiliar. "Third, they provided an elegant platform in Eskort that lets me run and operate my site as an independent enterprise. "And finally, they were both acutely professional and also lots of fun to work with. A real dream team." Kate McDonough DeVito Fitterman Advertising"We found Animus Rex after an exhaustive search of Web designers. They came to us highly recommended and have proven themselves to live up to their excellent reputation. We originally hired them to design web sites for our clients, and then had them design our own site, a measure of the satisfaction we received from them. When working with our clients, they were extremely buttoned up, stayed on budget, were excellent listeners, were very timely and a pleasure to work with, often under trying situations and committees. They delivered all they said they would and our clients were very happy with the results and the process. "An even greater challenge for them was developing our own web site. We're a creatively driven advertising agency, so you can imagine dealing with creative people who always believe they have the right answer. The team at Animus Rex was up to the challenge. They added a great deal of creativity, dealt with our egos, handled the last minute changes with grace, and produced a site that we like a lot, is a real reflection of our personality and has gotten great reviews from everyone who has seen it. "Our continued faith in Animus Rex is reflected in the fact that we continue to recommend them to our clients." Frank DeVito Kelley Drye & Warren"Animus Rex helped us to develop an award-winning website that is both functional for users, and easy to administer. Their team is responsive, creative and experienced, and their solutions were always tailored for our needs. We also value their attention to deadlines and cost-efficiency. In short, Animus Rex was instrumental to the successful launch of our new web site. We are extremely pleased with the end product." Holly Brown Berfield Kurnit Communications and KidShop"Animus Rex gets it. They are brilliant partners in solving web related problems and opportunities of any kind. They are up to the minute in what the internet can do. They have a profound interest in understanding a company's very individualized internet needs. And, they have the rare artistic and technological talent to pull it all together. "Unlike too many players in the internet space who over promise and under deliver, Animus Rex is on the case. They communicate brilliantly well. They meet or beat deadlines. And, they deliver what they say they've set out to do -- usually with new and better ideas along the way. They have a passionate interest in making certain their solutions work both in initial implementation as well as inspired evolution. They are a pleasure to work with and their results show in their on budget execution and final deliverables." Paul Kurnit Policy Innovations"We had an enormous task of reorganizing more than a thousand documents into a logical, accessible online magazine format. Animus Rex was with us every step of the way--from conceptualizing the problems to finding solutions. Moreover, the Animus Rex staff communicates with clients in a clear, professional fashion." Devin Stewart Proskauer Rose LLP"We first hired Animus Rex in the Fall of 2001 during the reconstruction of our public site, proskauer.com and have relied on their quality work ever since. Animus Rex was quick to understand our vision and objectives. They were able to understand and optimize existing firm processes and execute efficiencies, such as automating several sections of the site, on time and on budget. At the end of the process, they delivered a site that surpassed our expectations. It reflected our brand, properly positioned and promoted the depth and breadth of our expertise, and continues to be one of the Firm's key marketing and recruiting tools. "We were so pleased with Animus Rex's work, that we hired them to redo our Intranet. Our internal site was a much larger challenge. It would need to accommodate tens of thousands of records ranging from Firm news to calendar items, to associate manuals, to templates, to the lunch menu. It would need to comprehensively bridge, for the very first time, our offices, practice groups, administrative departments and our existing knowledge base. "Animus Rex worked tirelessly to keep things on-course and to help us keep track of the countless details that make or break a project of this magnitude. They helped us refine and prioritize the site features, worked through issues as they arose, and created solutions that seemed undoable at first glance. The new Intranet was successfully launched last Spring and has become an invaluable tool we use each day. "Our sites have been extremely well received by discerning and disparate audiences. We believe that this is due, in no small part, to our ability to manage all of the content internally. Animus Rex's content management system enabled us to distribute maintenance responsibilities to each area's stakeholder. They worked with us to define the groups and processes by which this happened, and then trained over 50 content managers. Their training was informative and effective, and the materials were impeccable. "Aside from being consummate professionals, the team at Animus Rex has the unique ability to see both detail and the big picture, plan for the future, and provide solutions that actually work in the real world."
Paul Webb Ross, Culbert and Lavery"Our design firm has teamed up with Animus Rex as back-end developers on a couple of large, dynamic websites. We found them to be enthusiastic partners and fantastic problem solvers. When presented with a design that pushes the envelope a bit on the back-end, more often than not they would say, 'hey- I like that. Let's figure out how to do it.' Rather than comments like 'it can't be done' and 'this is going to be expensive'. They are brilliant, flexible and always deliver top quality work on time." Susan Mason |
