Manufacturing KPI Dashboard with PowerPoint
A car's dashboard gives you vital up-to-date information about your car's performance. Similarly, a manufacturing KPI dashboard gives you a visual, at-a-glance method, of monitoring your manufacturing Key Performance Indicators. There are hundreds of possible...
Live RSS News in PowerPoint
Recently DataPoint got a few new data providers. Before, we already had a RSS data provider in DataPoint, but we decided to add a new RSS data provider with more functionality. First of all, all featured photos are copied locally, only once, before they are being...
Filter Data in PowerPoint
Our DataPoint tool for Microsoft PowerPoint is great to display in real-time database information on your slides. For databases, you use an SQL statement to retrieve the informations that you want. With the SQL statement you can select the data of one or more tables,...
Live Yahoo Weather in PowerPoint
Let's bring this static PowerPoint presentation to live with real-time weather information. For this article, we will use the Yahoo Weather data provider as we have in our DataPoint for PowerPoint add-on. We will start with this static designed presentation. Look at...
Microsoft SharePoint Integration with PowerPoint
Let's dive deeper into Microsoft SharePoint and its connectivity with PowerPoint. SharePoint is a browser-based collaboration and document management platform. At this moment, you can't use PowerPoint and display SharePoint information in real-time on your slides,...
Digital Signage at Lobbies and Waiting Rooms
The Idaho Department of Health & Welfare has deployed iPoint signage in some of our lobbies and waiting rooms throughout the State of Idaho. iPoint signage allows the Department to provide useful health information, help in finding the services that our Department...
KPI Reporting Using PowerPoint
What is KPI reporting? Quite simply, KPI reporting is how you report your key performance indicators (KPI's) to your management and team. Think of KPIs as the business equivalent of how health is measured for your body. When you go for your checkup, your doctor will...
Dynamic Digital Signage
What is dynamic digital signage? A dictionary defines "dynamic" as a process or system characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. So, unlike traditional signage, digital signage is dynamic. It can be changing as often as you like with regularly updating...
Hotel Digital Signage
Hotels are fast paced, ever-changing environments with new people and events every day. To keep up with hotel conferences, events and advertising, top hotels around the world are adding hotel digital signage to their facilities. Hotel digital signage displays...
PowerPoint Clock with Date & Time Display
We have 2 possible scenarios for displaying a PowerPoint clock. This is a dedicated time add-on for using a PowerPoint clock to display the time or date in a presentation. This is very easy to use and can use a clock, calendar, count down, timer etc. If you need to...
Pokémon Go Marketing Tips
If Pokémon Go has launched in your country, you have likely seen lots of young people (and not so young) rushing around town capturing game characters with their smart phones. With all this activity, you are probably thinking, "How can my business benefit from...
Event Software using Google Calendar
It is summer and in the summer people go to festivals and concerts. Let's put together event software to create an information screen for concerts where you display the upcoming events on a television screen. Information of the events is stored in a Google Calendar...
Facebook Display on PowerPoint Slides
With the last update on DataPoint, you can now link your PowerPoint slides in real-time to a Facebook page. Now you can create a Facebook display page on PowerPoint to display a page's description, address information, number of likes, check-ins, talking about and...
Weather Display with Forecast.io / Dark Sky API
We have 3 possible scenarios for displaying weather. This is a dedicated weather add-on for PowerPoint to display weather information in a presentation. This is very easy to use and it can show current weather information and forecasts. If you need to display the...
Security Warning : References to external pictures have been blocked
People who use PowerPoint for digital signage and dynamic information screens, often use external pictures on their slides. When you use our software to display live news on your slides, then you can add a featured image, next to the headline. Since the news articles...
Create a KPI Dashboard Using PowerPoint
https://youtu.be/e8JGiYLzNPk KPI dashboards are becoming increasing important to companies and organizations because they let management see key performance indicators as to the health and processes at a glance. In this video/article, we will show you how to...
PresentationPoint Adds 6 New Data Providers to PowerPoint
With the next release of DataPoint, PresentationPoint adds 6 more data providers to the list. A data provider is a connectivity layer in DataPoint to link your PowerPoint shapes to data sources like databases, XML, Excel and other files. Earlier this year, we added...
How to Use a Timer in PowerPoint
A timer in PowerPoint is often seen. Probably the most seen is a timer for a break in a presentation. But others use PowerPoint as an information screen and display real-time and dynamic information on it. You can use it for example on a school display system during...
Flexible Column Selection for Dynamic Tables
Every week we get the question on how you can prevent all columns of your dataset that are copied one by one in the table on your PowerPoint slide. People use DataPoint to link to data of any format and then display this information in real-time in PowerPoint tables....
Promote Your Facebook Page with Dynamic Likes
It this article, we will show you how to promote your Facebook page using a powerful tool called Dynamic Likes. Dynamic Likes is a PowerPoint add-on that connects any PowerPoint to your Facebook Like statistics and updates it in real time. Dynamic Likes includes an...
Link Text files and CSV data in PowerPoint
Text and CSV files are databases in the most simplest form. You don't need a specific database server software. You just store the data in a text file. Unencrypted, unprotected, no compression and no intelligent indexing system on it. In most cases, a text file is...
Using DataPoint Shortcuts to Make Faster Dynamic Presentations
There are some handy shortcuts in DataPoint to do things much quicker. Let us illustrate this with some sample data like addresses. We have our raw address information stored in Excel like this: Then we use DataPoint to set up a connection to that Excel and we will...
KPI Dashboard: Lundins Case Study
Our clients are extremely creative and come up with ways to use our products that often astonish us. So we thought we would share some case studies as to how our clients make real-life use of our software tools within their businesses or organization. Today, we are...
Display real-time Data in PowerPoint
OData or Open Data Protocol, allows you to connect to RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way. Â Typically you will find an oData service with one or more resources with data. DataPoint allows you to connect to an oData service (and more). You can use DataPoint to...
BI Reporting Tools: PowerPoint
When you think of Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools, PowerPoint might not come to mind. Here are some great reasons why PowerPoint deserves to be in your kit of BI reporting tools. Ease of Use Data Connections Dashboarding Total Customization Add-Ons Ease of...
Display JSON Data in PowerPoint
Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint allows you to connect your presentation to a JSON file or data source, and then display this JSON information in real-time on your information screen or in your PowerPoint reports. JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight...
How to Display Dynamic Shapes or Pointers in PowerPoint?
Today we released a new version of our DataPoint product. Next to images, text boxes, charts, tables, ... that you can link to dynamic information for real-time content, we have added something revolutionary; dynamic pointers on your slides. You can now display...
How to Fix Long Dynamic Texts with DataPoint
When you use our DataPoint technology to display real-time information on your PowerPoint slides, then you are displaying dynamic information from a data source. Typical for dynamic values, is that you have no real control over the minimum or maximum length of the...
Use Pictures and Picture Sliders on your Slides
Today's article will show you how you can insert images or pictures on your PowerPoint slides. Basically there are 3 ways to display images on a PowerPoint slide: a single picture in a picture box or a background image on your slide or, and this is special, a slider...
Learn how to Display Real-Time Tweets in PowerPoint
Terrorist attacks, disasters, shootings and so on, keeps us tied to the news and we watch as many news channels as possible. News papers, news websites, Facebook, Twitter, radio and so on. With the recent terrorist attacks, we probably all have the same behaviour. We...
Dynamic Presentations
We've all been there. Sitting in a darkened room, watching a boring presentation with a speaker with a droning voice, reading bullet point after bullet point of largely data. ZZZZZZZZ. Instead of the usual boring PowerPoint presentations, why not give dynamic...
Display Stock Quotes in PowerPoint
Stock Quotes Data Sources In today's article we will show you, how you can create a real-time information screen for your company, where you display real-time stock quotes information on your monitor. DataPoint technology is used here, as a PowerPoint add-on, to...
Truncate texts of long RSS news
We have 3 possible scenarios for displaying news. This is a dedicated news add-on for PowerPoint to display news or RSS information in a presentation. This is very easy to use and can show headlines, texts and images. If you need to display news or RSS information,...
Data Driven Screens for Hospitals
Committed to flexibility and adding value, PresentationPoint has drawn from the field of a data science to imitate and develop accurate data analysis using digital signage, to transform the way we look at health at the individual and global level! It is true that the...
Mail Merging of Excel Data into PowerPoint Testimonial
I’m so fortunate to have stumbled upon DataPoint offered by PresentationPoint. My problem was that I needed to create a product sales catalog where prices and products offered change seasonally. This information was best organized in a spreadsheet in Excel. My...
Linked Tables in PowerPoint
We all know the places where you have such information screens displaying a list. Look at flight information at an airport, departing trains at a station, job listings, movies in a cinema, exhibitions etc. They are all look similar. At the first row you will find some...
How to Generate PowerPoint presentations automatically?
Generate Presentations with the Task SchedulerDataPoint is the tool to update your slide content automatically. With this PowerPoint add-on, you can link your slides to  any data source for up-to-date presentations.  And PowerPoint is great for presenting information....
PresentationPoint at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club
Several years ago, our Property Advisory Committee, tired of the old way of doing things demanded something new for our Employee Announcements and Communications. We were all familiar with PowerPoint, but not excited about the work required to keep this kind of...
How to Use the PowerPoint Format Painter Effectively?
The PowerPoint Format Painter We start with a new presentation or slide, with an acro gymnastics picture. I want to create a flyer for the new acro cup event. As you can see, next to the images, there are some two text boxes with some white text in it. Let's format...
Creative Use of DataPoint at The Palmdale Aerospace Academy
Every year our school has an enrollment lottery. It’s an exciting and emotional event where prospective students come to find out if they will be awarded a seat for our next school year. They watch eagerly for their number to be called, and I wanted our presentation...
Guide to Schedule Slides in a PowerPoint Slideshow
What is PlanPoint? This is a tool to schedule slides of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Advantage is that you can leave your slideshow running without stopping the PowerPoint kiosk presentation. This is a free PowerPoint add-on that allows the user to set timings...
Create Digital Signage PowerPoint Playlists
Digital Signage with PowerPoint Playlists Let's dive into the world of digital signage with PowerPoint playlists and presentations. Earlier our topic was about setting up digital signage playlists with images and videos. Now, it is time to talk more about using...
Data Rules or Conditional Formatting in PowerPoint
Real-time data on your information screen is hot to look at, and not that difficult to produce. The most used tool to create presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint, in combination with the DataPoint add-on, brings real-time data to your slides or slideshows. You can...
Dynamic Text Tickers for PowerPoint Slideshows
What are Text Tickers? It probably started on television. Display text or graphical information on your television channel, on top of the broadcast. Often it is used as a text ticker for special events, interruptions, news messages and announcements. The advantage of...
PresentationPoint Brightens Up Lives in a Care Home
Residents at Brightside Manor Care Home in Cardiff, Wales are reaping the benefits of the capabilities of dynamic presentation offered by PresentationPoint software. The care home manager, Linda Hermance said, “Invariably all television content in the lounges are...
10 Ways to Generate Amazing PowerPoint Presentation Ideas
So, you've been asked to put together a presentation or need a presentation to WOW your audience. Where do you get amazing PowerPoint presentation ideas that will amaze your listeners and make your presentation stand out from the crowd? Right here, of course. 🙂 Since...
How to use a PowerPoint Countdown on your Slideshow?
Introduction Use our Dynamic TIME add-on and presentation to create your own PowerPoint countdown. PowerPoint countdowns are dynamic shapes for your slides, where you set a specific target or countdown date and time. Countdowns are great for counting down till New...
Most Efficient Way to Duplicate Shapes in PowerPoint
Everyone uses PowerPoint to create presentations. Even a child can create presentations. But there is something in our brains that keeps telling us to use CTRL + C and CTRL + V to duplicate PowerPoint shapes. We see this happening all the time. Someone wants to show...
How to Set Up Alternating Text in PowerPoint
A new feature is upcoming for DataPoint. DataPoint is used to link PowerPoint shapes to data sources like databases, XML files, RSS feeds, Excel data sheets etc. In that way, you always have the latest information on your slides. You can link the content of a data...
Best Digital Signage Player
Your digital signage player is the "brain" of your digital signage system. To create a successful digital signage system, you need the "best brain"  - you need to choose the best digital signage player for your needs. Digital signage can become expensive. There are...
Dynamic Text Boxes in PowerPoint
Today, you will learn a great trick for a PowerPoint presentation. You can make your PowerPoint presentations completely dynamic. Watch how you can connect a PowerPoint text box to a data source and use text boxes as dynamic text boxes on your slides. Set Up a Data...
How to Set Up Dynamic Hyperlinks in PowerPoint
Hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations can be great when you have presentations with links to other documents, presentations, external files or websites. On a slide, you can give some minimal information and invite people to click for a more...
Problems with Fonts in Powerpoint Presentations
Everyone has experienced this problem. You prepare a nice Word document or PowerPoint document and you open it on another computer or send it out to someone else. On the second computer, your document or slides are looking differently. A common problem is the lacking...
Show Live XML Data in your PowerPoint Presentations
Learn how to use DataPoint technology to show live XML data on your slides. You will see how to connect your textboxes, tables and charts to XML data on your computer, or XML data residing on the internet. When you open your PowerPoint presentation, the content of...
Most Effective Waiting Queue Software
We all know that this system is for waiting queues. You will see it at waiting areas, post offices, help desks, etc. When you enter the area, you will  take a number and you will wait till your number will be displayed on a LED display. This boring LED display is...
SQL Presentations
Let's build a data driven SQL presentation that get its information directly from a Microsoft SQL Server database. With DataPoint you can link your slides to a database and display real-time information on your slideshow or view the latest information on your slides...
DataPoint Command Line Tool for PowerPoint
Introduction to PowerPoint Command Line Tool Something else here today about DataPoint. Let's talk about our DataPoint Command Line Tool for Microsoft PowerPoint to generate presentations via a command job. In other words, generate PowerPoint presentations...
Museum Ticketing Display System
Bokrijk Open-Air Museum Bokrijk is a large open-air museum in Belgium that consist of authentic relocated buildings, mainly dating from the 17th till 19th century from all over Flanders. In the summer season, historical Flanders comes alive in Bokrijk through numerous...
What will bring the future for digital signage?
The Future Is Here The end of the year is rapidly approaching, and thus it's everyone's favorite time of year. It has been a very wonderful year for the PowerPoint presentation industry. So what's going to happen in 2016? What is going to happen in the next 3-5 years...
Create Digital Signage Playlists with Videos
Digital Signage with Video Playlists The previous digital signage related article was about digital signage images playlists. Now, I want to go one step further with the video playlists. A video file can be compared to full motion television with great animations and...
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