Crush Creative, a commercial graphic communication and imaging center in Burbank that caters to the film, television and retail industries, is using Xinet WebNative Portal to create Web sites where its movie industry and retail clients can purchase graphic images online with a credit card or purchase order number.

Brian Rahming
Crush Creative

“In our business, we have to keep a competitive advantage in order to compete against all the other companies in Los Angeles. A lot of our clients are asking for this right now, the ability to order online,” said Brain Rahming, Information Systems Manager of Crush Creative.

Crush Creative first bought WebNative Portal in early 2005 because their clients wanted an easy way to upload and download images and files via the Internet.

“Portal helps us customize Web sites for our clients and makes those Web sites more unique to them,” said Rahming.

With Portal, Crush Creative can easily build a secure Web interface that is branded uniquely to each client.

“With our large movie studio clients, we put more things on that site to customize the look and feel for that particular company. Then we can set up a user name, password, and customize it for them. So, nobody can access it. It's secure,” Rahming said.

“With Portal, we can offer more services to our clients and can post things really fast. We don't need a team of programmers. Any employee can actually manage it for you. You don't have to spend months developing asset manage- ment software; Portal already has it.”

Rahming said the fast customization and easy secure access of Portal satisfies a growing need among Crush Creative clients.

“Everything's going to the Web now. Everybody wants Web access. We already have it for them and it's easy. If you know how to use a Web browser, you can use WebNative to download and upload an image.”