Jul 26, 2024 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Merge
In the digital era, personalization is key to engaging with your audience — whether it’s a customer, employee, or partner. Enter mail merging, a powerful process that has revolutionized the way businesses communicate on a large scale. But what exactly is mail...
May 9, 2024 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Evergreen, Reporting, Scoreboards
In an age where data drives decisions, business intelligence (BI) tools have become indispensable in extracting insights from vast amounts of data. However, the real challenge lies in communicating these data-driven insights effectively. Presentations, especially...
Aug 28, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Merge
If you frequently make presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint and find yourself manually updating your charts and slides every time data changes, you need to try PresentationPoint’s DataPoint Plugin. With this powerful plugin, you can create dynamic, data-driven...
Aug 16, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen
Do you ever find yourself spending endless hours in PowerPoint, copying and pasting values from one slide to another, or from another document or source to your slides? If so, you’re not alone. Many people underestimate the amount of time they spend on these...
Jul 11, 2023 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen
In today’s data-driven world, effective data visualization has become crucial for conveying complex information in a simple and visually appealing format. PowerPoint, with its versatile features, allows users to create impactful presentations incorporating...
Jul 4, 2023 | Articles, DataPoint, Digital Signage, Evergreen
Effective communication is essential for any successful organization. However, slow communication can be a major obstacle to productivity, collaboration, and success. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our new slogan, “Fighting Slow...
Apr 4, 2022 | Articles, DataPoint, Evergreen
“Data” and “report” are the two words you are well accustomed to, even though you may or may not have to deal with it every day. But in case you have to create reports and manage dashboards every single day, then you are already aware of how arduous it is to manually...
Mar 27, 2022 | Articles, DataPoint, Evergreen, QR Codes
QR code images or quick response images are often used in prints and displays. These can be scanned with your telephone’s camera app. This camera app detects that it is a QR code image, and translates the information into a link to a destination where you can...
Dec 20, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, Evergreen, How-To
Here is a recording of a recent webinar we put together on “Amazing Things You Can Do With Airtable and PowerPoint” exploring how you can use Airtable for online data collection and then use DataPoint to show Airtable data in real-time on PowerPoint....
Nov 23, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen
Technology has heavily influenced our daily life, making our lives easier in every aspect. Daily necessities have become easily available and affordable. In the corporate world, where people often have to track and play with numbers, technology has created different...
Nov 16, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, Non-profit
Here are some fundraising PowerPoint ideas to help you use PowerPoint for fundraising for your organization. 1: Public Speaking Opportunities Public speaking is a great way to use PowerPoint for fundraising. You can speak in front of hundreds of people and get the...
Nov 9, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen
Updating data manually is always a hefty task. You have to go through piles of pages to find a few relevant pieces of information you are looking for. But does it end there? Unfortunately, the answer is no. After finding the data you are looking for, you will have to...
Nov 2, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, MessagePoint
In this webinar video, we show you how to use PowerPoint for interoffice communications by turning your existing computer network into a company-wide broadcasting system. Show the latest company news, sales figures, welcome new employees, or showcase the next office...
Oct 26, 2021 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Reporting
The Power of Data Dashboards Wherever your eyesight wanders around, you will see data, and with every step, you will experience the changes it has brought about. For example, if you look in the world of business, data is being used constantly to analyze, innovate,...
Oct 12, 2021 | DataPoint, Evergreen
Here is a recording of a webinar we did showcasing a wide range of ways to use DataPoint and PowerPoint, including digital signage, multi-language presentations, news, weather, politics, live polls, and much more. Please hit the Like and Subscribe buttons on this...
Sep 28, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, How-To
I love when I drive or walk by a business and they have a funny sign out front. It shows me that the shop owners have a sense of humor and I have a warm feeling about the business and enjoy that they made me laugh. In this video, we will show you how to create your...
Sep 21, 2021 | Articles, Digital Signage, Evergreen, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising, SignageTube
In this video and article, we discuss how to benefit from location based advertising on digital signage. Digital Signage Excels @ Location Based Advertising You can use digital signage monitors close to the advertiser to deliver advertising while prospects are in the...
Sep 13, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, Evergreen
Our customers often use PowerPoint to create menu boards and price lists. A good tip for price lists is to show your items for as long as possible. The risk of a PowerPoint price list is that you are going to use multiple slides to show all your items and...
Sep 6, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, iPoint
In this video, we explore how to choose and manage music backgrounds for your retail store, restaurant or other environment. Music has a huge impact on our experience. It taps our emotions. Music can be uplifting, melancholy, or make us want to dance. Music can soothe...
Aug 20, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Merge
This week we added a great feature to our DataPoint (Enterprise edition). This edition already includes a PowerPoint generator to generate individual and personalized presentations and documents for you, via its Snapshot Save As feature. But we have added an...
Aug 10, 2021 | Articles, Digital Signage, Evergreen, iPoint
Lets explore the use of timed content within your digital signage content management system. What is timed content? Timed content for digital signage is content that changes based on time. This might be: Time of day Day of the week Seasons/Weather Holidays and events...
Aug 3, 2021 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Logistics, Transportation
The trucking industry is a challenging one, with many logistics to manage. In this video, we will show you how to set up a truck logistics dashboard using PowerPoint and our PowerPoint add-on, DataPoint. Why are Truck Logistics Important? Truck logistics dashboards...
Jul 13, 2021 | Articles, Digital Signage, Evergreen
Forget old, static billboards! Digital billboards let you add movement and video to your advertising and to show hundreds of messages instead of a single message. Why Digital Billboards? With digital billboards, you can show a playlist of multiple ads instead of a...
Jul 6, 2021 | DataPoint, Evergreen
Here is the recording of Kurt Dupont’s webinar, “Create Data Visualization Infographics in PowerPoint.” Questions about data visualization infographics? Contact us and we would be happy to help. Case Studies Sales Dashboard Case Study Teacher...
Jul 4, 2021 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, Healthcare, Non-profit
In this video and article, we provide a non-profit digital signage case study, showing how Bravo Ambulance uses our DataPoint software to communicate with their dispatchers, paramedics, and other team members. Thanks to Tony Napoli, President of Bravo Ambulance for...
Jun 28, 2021 | Articles, Evergreen, Human Resources, MessagePoint
One of the most troublesome parts of having workstations all over the office, the country, even the world, is getting everyone on the same page with information. Send out an email and only a small percentage will read it in time. Sending a printed newsletter is...
Jun 21, 2021 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Evergreen, Financial
In this video, we explore how to create a crypto dashboard in PowerPoint to show real-time pricing of cryptocurrencies. See the video above to see the crypto dashboard in PowerPoint in action. The first step whenever you are creating a data-driven PowerPoint...
Jun 4, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Financial
In this video, we are going to show you how to create a live crude oil price dashboard in PowerPoint using our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint. Click on the video below to see our process. Live Crude Oil Price from Web URL Our first attempt was to gather the...
May 31, 2021 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Evergreen, Tutorials
Here is a recording of our recent webinar, “Event Promotion Using PowerPoint.” PowerPoint Create as Video: Quality and File Size How to Hide Video Media Controls on Slideshows FAQ: Should I Export Presentation to 4K Video? Voter Turnout Personalized Videos...
May 28, 2021 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen
The core purpose of using digital signage is to grab the audience’s attention and communicate your information. And it all boils down to content presentation. Using PowerPoint for content creation can deliver attention-grabbing digital signage that conveys the...
Apr 23, 2021 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
Stock market prices are hot and changing every second you look. In some financial markets and offices, you want to continually monitor real-time stock quotes on television screens. This can perfectly be done in PowerPoint with our great DataPoint plug in. Use...
Mar 29, 2021 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Merge
Here is a recording of a webinar by Kurt Dupont, showing how to automatically create PowerPoint slides from Excel using the DataPoint PowerPoint add-on. DataPoint Bridge Automating PowerPoint from Excel Excel versus PowerPoint Using PowerPoint for Business Reports: 15...
Mar 23, 2021 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Interoffice Communication, Reporting
Thanks to Victig Screening Solutions for sharing with us how they are using DataPoint to create their own sales dashboard. About You – Tell us a bit about your company or organization and what you do. VICTIG Screening Solutions offers an intuitive and...
Mar 16, 2021 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Education, Evergreen
In this real-life case study, we look at how Seven Lakes School in Katy, Texas used our DataPoint software to build a fantastic teacher recognition program at their school. Here is a picture of how the program is shown on screens in the school. Here is a quote from...
Mar 9, 2021 | Attractions and Events, Broadcasting, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Non-profit
In this real-life case study, we visit the Montreal Torah Center to see how they are using DataPoint in to create a raffle results screen for fundraising events for their non-profit organization. The Montreal Torah Center is a synagogue and community center located in...
Feb 17, 2021 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Human Resources, Reporting
In this video and case study, we share how our reseller partner, Design Agility, created custom data-driven staff profiles to help with their training assessments and implementation. Background Design Agility is a consulting firm in Melbourne Australia. They help...
Jan 26, 2021 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Financial
PowerPoint navigation is an underutilized feature. You can use navigation to create interactive presentations, kiosk presentations, directories and much more. Let’s explore how to use PowerPoint navigation to create a self-guided client presentations that your...
Jan 19, 2021 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Healthcare, iPoint
Here is a recording of a webinar we did titled “Health Care Digital Signage Ideas.” We have also included it as an article for those who prefer articles to video. What is Healthcare Digital Signage? Digital signage is signage that is shown on screens like...
Jan 11, 2021 | Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Education, Evergreen
In this case study, we are looking at how the Islamic College of Brisbane uses our software within their educational institution. Thanks to Orhan Camkara of the Islamic College for sharing their story with us. Tell us a bit about your organization and what you...
Oct 24, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Elections, Evergreen, Government, Non-profit
In this video, we show you how you can create personalized voter turnout videos using PowerPoint. The examples shown are for the US election, but will also work for any country, state, province, or municipal election. This could be used to increase voter turnout on a...
Oct 17, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
People in western countries spend up to 12 hours per day looking at screens. As I write this article, I’ve easily spent 36 hours over the past three days either staring at my computer screen, television screen, phone. Screens have undeniably become a massive part of...
Aug 15, 2020 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Education, Evergreen
In this article, we are going to look at how Vision Charter School students set up their own school digital signage. This story was told to us by Jeff Olson who is the teacher in charge of Information Technology at this Idaho school. About Vision Charter School Vision...
Jul 25, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Food & Beverage
Here is a digital signage case study about how an ice cream parlor, Two Scoop Steve in British Columbia, Canada, uses our software. Tell us a bit about your company or organization and what you do. We are small Ice Cream Shop and Cafe located in the East Kootenay...
Jun 6, 2020 | Evergreen, How-To, MessagePoint
Do you want to set up a corporate screen saver on all computers? Maybe you want to communicate with your colleagues to spread news, sales updates, new employees, or promotions. Let me give you 2 options to accomplish that. Both options start with a PowerPoint...
May 11, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Food & Beverage, Retail
What is Multiscreen Digital Signage? Multiscreen digital signage is where you have your messages shown on more than one screen in your facility. This lets you ensure that your messages and information can be seen throughout your facility so that you can keep all your...
May 4, 2020 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, Marketing and Advertising, VideoPoint
There is an increased interest in live television on slides. More presentations are given and people try to combine television with PowerPoint slides with information, instructions, and charts. Nolan Haims tweeted this request of having PowerPoint to show live video...
Apr 17, 2020 | Evergreen, How-To, VideoPoint
You can connect a few types of cameras to your computer. First of all, we have the (internal or external) webcam. You can connect your photo or video camera. Or (via a long way) you can connect to any IP camera worldwide. Think about security cameras in a shop, mall...
Apr 4, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Evergreen, Government, iPoint, Reporting
In this video and article, we are going to explore how our software can be used for your smart city project – to make your community or city truly data-driven. Smart City Project Concept What is a Smart City Project? This is a project meant to collect data from...
Mar 28, 2020 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Financial, Reporting
In this real-life case study, we explore how Hewlett Packard Enterprise uses our DataPoint software for report generating using PowerPoint. The Report Generating Problem Here is a quote from Nicole Mitchell, Customer Experience with Hewlett Packard Enterprise as to...
Mar 21, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Retail
Sales reporting requires a direct approach in communicating data, an approach that will covey swiftly and effectively the interpretation of sales to its audience. The use of PowerPoint proffers a direct approach that gives your audience a quick understanding and...
Mar 18, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
There are tools available to show websites on PowerPoint slides like LiveWeb and LiveSlides (EDIT: website seems to be down – link removed). I’m recommending them often. You can use that to draw a web browser object on your slide, and then specify the URL...
Mar 14, 2020 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, Interoffice Communication, Logistics
In this article, we explore how a non-profit organization, Edesia Nutrition, handles conference room booking and their warehouse logistics calendar using our DataPoint software. To help understand their use case, we asked management at Edesia a series of questions....
Feb 28, 2020 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To
We recently created this data-driven dashboard in PowerPoint by connecting our presentation to a database with our DataPoint plugin. The result is quite astonishing. The database is basically a dummy, where we have a small utility to execute random updates on the...
Feb 22, 2020 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
OPC defines a revolutionized way of going about industrial processes. OPC, being an aggregation of Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control is currently adopted for use in control processes in smart industries today. In simpler terms, OPC is Open Process...
Feb 14, 2020 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Makeovers, Maps
The One World Observatory is located at the One World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, USA. This building was a tribute to the tragedy that happened at 9/11 (2001) with the Twin Towers. It recently opened in 2014, and Observatory itself opened mid 2015 and is...
Feb 1, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To
Fundraising is a way of collecting voluntary contributions or donations for a purpose. From door to door, on a shopping street, on television, on the internet, Facebook collections etc. Fundraising is on the rise, especially due to social media. Think about...
Dec 20, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen, Interoffice Communication, iPoint, Reporting
In this article, we will explore how Jo De Saunois of VINCI Energies uses digital information boards created using PresentationPoint to communicate important company and safety information across it’s network of offices in Belgium. The Network of Information...
Oct 12, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Evergreen, Financial, Government, Reporting
In this article and video, we are going to look at a real-life case study showing how PowerPoint can be used as reporting software. Thank you to Chen Buber, CFO of SG Nordic for taking the time to provide us with details of his process and how he is using DataPoint to...
Aug 10, 2019 | Articles, Broadcasting, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, Evergreen, Weather
In this article, a professional meteorologist, James Longwith, shares with us how he uses our weather software, Dynamic Elements, to create real-time weather reports.Here are James’ answers to our questions about how he is using our weather software. Tell us a...
Apr 30, 2019 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, Digital Signage, Dynamic elements, Evergreen, Non-profit
One of our favorite things at PresentationPoint is when our customers send us their “look what we made” pictures and stories. This story is about a world time clock designed in PowerPoint by audiovisual and IT firm, Qubix, using our Dynamic Elements...
Mar 29, 2019 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen, Non-profit
In this video we’re going to do a case study for museum digital signage thanks to our client, The Wild Center who agreed to provide us with information about how they’re using our tools and products to set up their museum digital signage. Here are the...
Mar 16, 2019 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, How-To, Merge
In this video and article, we will show you how to create personalized videos using PowerPoint. For this example, we have decided to use a situation where you might want to create personalized videos for each of your employees during your employee review process. Here...
Mar 2, 2019 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, Industrial/Manufacturing, Maps, Reporting
Recently one of our customers who wishes to remain anonymous sent us a screenshot of how they set up an equipment monitoring system dashboard system using our software. There is a lot to unpack on this one single screen that shows a lot more than you think....
Feb 16, 2019 | Articles, Aviation, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Dynamic elements, Evergreen
Here is how Air Tindi, an airline based in Canada’s far North uses digital signage for airline schedules and communicating with customers. Question: Tell us a bit about your company or organization or what you do. Answer:30 years of service and a Northern Based...
Nov 10, 2018 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Government, Interoffice Communication
For our case study this time, we travel to the City of Winter Springs, Florida. Winter Springs is a city of 33,282 located in Seminole County Florida. The Problem The City of Winter Springs has bi-monthly Commission meetings between the public and their elected...
Aug 5, 2018 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
Countdown timer displays are often used for counting down to a specific date, or a timer to count since there is a specific date. Countdowns are often used to count down to New Year, Christmas, the end of the Ramadan, opening of a new shop, to show how long a speaker...
Jun 3, 2018 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Education, Evergreen, FAQ
In this article, we answer a customers’s question about getting data into PowerPoint certificates. I have the names in an excel document and I have a designated text field within a PowerPoint slide (which is where I have the certificate currently). I was going...
May 13, 2018 | Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Industrial/Manufacturing, Reporting
Today we look at a real life case study how one of our customers uses our software to create a custom KPI dashboard. A KPI dashboard is where you use software to report your key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time. HD Supply Holdings Inc. is one of the largest...
Mar 11, 2018 | Case Studies, Evergreen, Financial, Reporting
Our favorite thing of all is to find out how our customers are using our software. Our customers are amazingly creative and often come up with uses for our software we hadn’t thought of. In this article, we interview our customer Kevin Galandy, President...
Oct 1, 2017 | Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, Healthcare, Non-profit
The Mexican Red Cross is a Private Assistance Institution, whose mission is to provide efficient care to the population in cases of emergency and in natural disaster situations, and to promote actions to get increasing about the capacity of persons and communities to...
Sep 11, 2017 | Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Evergreen, Food & Beverage, Retail
Fruit Vanhellemont is a fruit company, specialized in pears and apples, as well as a selling point for regional products based on their pears and apples such as fruit juices, jams, liquors, teas and more. The co-owner Gert Vanhellemont was looking for an easy...
Aug 14, 2017 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen
Audiences get bored with old style bar graph and pie charts. So we have created a free PowerPoint Dashboard Speedometer Template for you to use instead. Since most people drive or have ridden in vehicles, people are used to car dashboards as a fast way of getting...
Aug 7, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Evergreen, How-To, iPoint
When disaster strikes, how do you keep people informed? We feel that emergency digital signage is a powerful channel for informing the public in emergency situations, complementing other channels like emergency radio & TV, email lists, and phone/text messaging....
Mar 22, 2017 | Articles, Case Studies, DataPoint, Evergreen, Government, How-To
As is a small town of about 8,200 people in the province of Limburg in Belgium. As is also the home of PresentationPoint. The town hall of As helps clients every day. They used to have an “open” waiting room concept but this didn’t offer much privacy...
