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...
Feb 4, 2018 | Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Hotel
We love these products! We run a non-profit retreat center in the Cascade foothills, and use Microsoft PowerPoint for digital signage to communicate with our guests. One challenge has been clearly and efficiently providing real-time weather information, so that hikers...
Jan 21, 2018 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Here is how to use Microsoft Exchange and PowerPoint as a meeting room booking system. You see those tablet devices hanging next to the door of a meeting rooms in offices. This discretely display meeting information and you can see who is having a meeting and when...
Nov 26, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
With the latest update of DataPoint, we released a new data provider – Microsoft Exchange connectivity. A new data provider to connect your presentation to Microsoft Exchange data is added to the already long list of possible data providers. This is the 25th...
Oct 15, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Recently, a DataPoint user was looking after a feature in DataPoint to replace or remove some unwanted characters coming from his database. We assisted him for a solution. We came up with a new addition to DataPoint where you have the option to scan all the database...
Sep 4, 2017 | Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, Healthcare, Interoffice Communication
PresentationPoint Helping those in Need When my manager suggested that we put up large monitors in every service providing Mental Health office to give information directly to the clients regarding services, resources and available aid; it seemed like an overwhelming...
Jun 2, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PowerPoints have been used for many business presentations and data visualization for many years. They are frequently used because they allow a huge amount of data to be shown on one side and they are easy to use. PowerPoint has received a few upgrades over the years,...
May 12, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements
This is a Frequently Asked Question. What is the difference between DataPoint and Dynamic Elements? Let me explain. DataPoint Dynamic Elements DataPoint is an add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint version 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Office 365 as we write. Dynamic Elements...
Mar 24, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
And again we can introduce a great new feature of DataPoint; the use of variables in your custom sql statements. Let’s explain what this is. You want to create a nice data driven presentation. A sales presentation on a given product for distribution to your...
Feb 24, 2017 | DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To
Displaying real-time information in a running slide show is what our DataPoint add-on does. So you set up a link to your data file(s) like a text file, Excel file, or simple Microsoft Access database, and you run the slide show. But how can you update your data file...