Software-as-a-service business needs a logo design

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We need a logo design for a new company called Sorian. We will be offering a new approach for market research for small and medium size businesses (SMBs). Sorian is focused on helping SMB owners/employees access, store, and organize information on their external environment (customers, competitors, partners, trends, best practices, etc.), analyze it to aid in their decision-making, and share it to advance their business.
We would like the logo to reflect the notion that Sorian will help make new connections that lead to new insights and ideas that will help their business. The attached concept is intended to do this, but we'd like to see some other concepts. The first concept (intersecting squares) is my default logo. The second concept (shown on the second slide) is intended to inspire other concepts that include a variation on the sunburst patterns that you see here. The sunburst will be a key element in the user interface, so we'd like to connect the user interface to the brand. As a guide, we'd like to see the simplicity reflected in the intersecting squares, but the shape, form reflected in the sunburst pattern.
I am not married to the font to style for Sorian, so play with it as you see fit. We prefer simple, not colorful. We'd like to see concepts with and without the tagline.
We would like the following for the logo: full color, reverse, B&W greyscale each in all of the following file formats: EPS, JPG, BMP, PDF, TIFF, PNG, PSD, and AI
Updates
Everyone,
Thank you for your submissions. A few of the concepts are interesting, but I haven't seen one yet where the design cues of the logo are undeniably consistent with the "sunburst" image that is in my second concept. Something with concentric circles or a spiral, perhaps consisting of a mosaic of intersecting squares. I have posted another version of my concept. You'll see that it is awful, but I hope that it gives you more of a sense for what I was looking for.
Added Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Target Market(s)
Owners/strategists for SMBs
Industry/Entity Type
Market Research
Logo Text
Sorian
Look and feel
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Elegant
Bold
Playful
Serious
Traditional
Modern
Personable
Professional
Feminine
Masculine
Colorful
Conservative
Economical
Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- Company name with logo
Nice to have
- variations on intersecting squares concept and sunburst concept - see attached.
Should not have
- Lots of color, complexity