Dec 15, 2018 | Articles
Welcome to Video Marketing: 10 Ways to Use Videos in Your Marketing. Why is video so critical for marketing?YouTube is now bigger than primetime TV. More people watch YouTube than watch television at any given time. It’s an amazing statistic.YouTube video search...
Dec 5, 2018 | Articles, Tutorials
Here is Chantal Bossé’s excellent presentation on the PowerPoint Zoom feature from our Presentation Ideas Online Conference 2018. Ever dreamed of being able to adapt your presentation content to your audience’s needs? Or skip some content altogether because you...
Dec 1, 2018 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
PowerPoint presentations are very time efficient and effective. Not only do they erase the burden of having to read a large chunk of text, they also afford you the opportunity to see the most important information instantly. With PowerPoint, data can be presented...
Oct 27, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Logistics
Why organizations need data-driven presentation software for its logistical sectorRelying on instincts is a dangerous game play that should be avoided by the most sophisticated organization as well as a new business.The United States boast of the most equipped...
Oct 14, 2018 | Articles
[Garland] Hello I’m Garland Coulson from PresentationPoint and today we’re doing an interview with PowerPoint MVP, expert, speaker, trainer and best-selling author on PowerPoint Ellen Finkelstein. Ellen, welcome to the show. [Ellen] Thanks Garland, thanks...
Oct 1, 2018 | Articles
PresentationPoint is pleased to announce our first ever Presentation Ideas Online Conference. For the Presentation Ideas Conference, we have gathered together 7 great speakers to deliver 8 online presentations that provide tips on presenting, PowerPoint, slide design...
Sep 30, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, TickerPoint
The content of this article is not 100% relevant anymore. DataPoint’s ticker option now got a new option to play text ticker over all slides of a presentation. TickerPoint is now obsolete. Check this article for more information. A PowerPoint ticker text...
Sep 22, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Once in a while, you as a man, you have to go shopping with your wife. So did I. 5 years ago, the shopping mall we were visiting, only had a limited number of digital signage screens where you see advertising. Nowadays, almost every shop has at least one monitor...
Sep 9, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Automation
Some of us use PowerPoint as a tool from time to time for business presentations. But for some of us, PowerPoint is more than that. Some of us use PowerPoint for a living… What kind of people use PowerPoint for a living? Here are a few examples: Professional...
Sep 1, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Our customer AB Inbev (Leuven plant in Belgium) asked us to use a data-driven presentation for their LED signage wall in the entrance of the brewery. They already had this LED display operational, mainly showing the number of days since the last accident, then a...
Aug 25, 2018 | Articles
In this video and article, we share our “10 Secrets to Exceptional Presentations” to help you avoid Death by PowerPoint. #1. Start With the Outcome in Mind Start your exceptional presentations by having a clearly defined outcome for the presentation in...
Aug 18, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
A Trivia quiz is always great. Questions, suspension, doubt, reaction speed, fun and a good humor. Who needs more to break the ice and to spend some time with friends or family? Typically for Trivia, you get a question for a given point of interest, e.g. like sports...
Aug 12, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Manufacturing has been taken to a whole new level. As a matter of fact, Industry 4.0 is considered the fourth industrial revolution. A massive yet expected leap from computerization and automation to cyber physical systems. Simply put, machines finally get to...
Aug 7, 2018 | Articles
PresentationPoint is an official partner of the Presentation Summit being held in San Diego, CA, USA from September 23 till 26. Come and visit us here for more information and news on our products. Have you heard about the Presentation Summit? Four days, dozens of...
Jul 29, 2018 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
When you work with a lot of data, it is really boring to stare on the huge sheets of numbers in Excel or similar software. It is much better to visualize the information and present it in a form of chart, graphs or infographics – like logistics dashboards. No...
Jul 21, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
We created this gun ownership infographic to show you how you can use PowerPoint to visually show data. Click on the infographic to see it full size. What is an Infographic? “Infographics” is a shortened compound word from “information” and...
Jun 23, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PowerPoint comes with some basic transitions to provide some extra interest and movement as you move from one slide to the next slide in your presentation. But the standard PowerPoint transition effects are overused because everyone has the same transitions. So...
Jun 10, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Marketing and Advertising
In this article, we will explore how PowerPoint can be used as an infographic maker. What is an Infographic? An infographic is a graphic, VISUAL representation of data or information you are trying to convey. It goes beyond just charts by combining the visual...
May 27, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
In this article, we will explore how a live Twitter feed can help your business. Twitter has over 330 million active users who send over 500 million tweets a day. Twitter provides businesses an opportunity to engage in real-time with their users. Your live Twitter...
May 9, 2018 | Articles
PresentationPoint is proud to announce our new PowerPoint Add-ons Affiliate Program. Our PowerPoint add-ons are used by some of the leading organizations in the world. Organizations like NASA, Boeing, Sony and Microsoft have chosen our software for their dynamic...
May 6, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Dynamic elements, iPoint, MessagePoint
In this article and video, we will look at what narrowcasting is, why it is important and why PowerPoint is a good solution for narrowcasting software needs. What is Narrowcasting? Most of us are more familiar with the term broadcasting. “Broad”casting is when...
Apr 22, 2018 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Healthcare
Waiting rooms are common. Doctor offices, business offices, banks, hospitals and government offices all have places where clients are forced to wait to be helped. In this article, we will give you Reception Area Comfort Tips so you can keep your clients happy and...
Mar 31, 2018 | Articles
In April 2018 we celebrate 20 years of PresentationPoint. In April 1998, a new company was grounded and named Take-off, with its main focus: projects around data delivery at airports. After some years, we started to develop our DataPoint product for a more general...
Mar 14, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Automation
Guest blog article by Slide Cow Color psychology isn’t just a fancy gimmick that you learned in your Psych 101 class back in college; it’s 100% real! In fact, marketing professionals always choose the ‘right’ colors for their campaigns just to...
Mar 1, 2018 | Articles
Guest blog article by Wow3D Wow3D is a software that converts a PowerPoint into an interactive 3Dpresentation and a video in one click from the PowerPoint interface. It allows companies to differentiate themselves during events and key business meetings and ensures a...
Feb 22, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Guest blog article by PDFConverter.com Making presentations in PowerPoint can be very interesting, especially because it involves playing with charts, graphics and other visuals. It can be boring to write a speech, especially if you are required to do research...
Feb 18, 2018 | Articles
We have added a new section to our website for documentation and manuals. In the old days, we were shipping manuals as PDF documents along with the setups. But we found out that we quickly added more features to our products without documenting it properly. So we had...
Feb 11, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, Marketing and Advertising
In this article, we will explore why PowerPoint ad creation is a great alternative to more expensive graphic design software. Advertising brings in customers, as well as money. With the emergence of screens everywhere, this has led to an increase in the available...
Jan 14, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Guest blog article by Tom Howell, Synapsis Creative Motion design is the art of using motion in media to convey ideas. That can be anything as simple as a slide transition or as extreme as an animation. Thanks to PowerPoint, it’s never been easier to add motion design...
Jan 6, 2018 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
It is the dawning of the Internet of Things era, and digital displays are becoming smarter each day. There’s no reason why arts centres should not have digital signage on their premises. Digital signage allows the administrators of the art centres to convey...
Dec 13, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Guest blog article by TemplateMonster People often put the slug on various presentations. To say the truth, in many cases, this criticism is completely justified. Most of us know how it feels to listen to a voluble, but a stodgy presentation that brings out one single...
Dec 10, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
PowerPoint is a very resourceful tool that can help businesses achieve more. Unfortunately, there are several possibilities within PowerPoint that people don’t know. The only thing that people know is how to design the presentations, but they don’t know they can use...
Dec 2, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Get Inside Their Heads: Planning Your Presentation Around Your Target Audience Guest blog article by PresentationLoad. The moment has arrived. Your boss has just asked you to give a presentation at the next department meeting. Or maybe you have been asked to speak at...
Dec 1, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PresentationPoint has had great success over the last 20 years, with some of the world’s leading companies and organizations like Sony, Hewlett Packard, SpaceX, NASA, eBay and Coca-Cola using our software. To keep our world leading position in digital signage...
Nov 19, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Many people seem to consider PowerPoint to be a tool to provide and display static info. Now, what do I mean by static info? Static info is something you feed in, and it never changes unless you go and make changes manually. When I say static info, the info could be...
Oct 22, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
PowerPoint Digital Signage? Most people are surprised when we suggest PowerPoint digital signage as a solution. A simple but powerful, method to grab the attention of anyone, anywhere, is to use a screen. A TV, computer screen, or mobile screen is great attention...
Oct 11, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
What is the Presentation Guild? The roles and capabilities of presentation professionals are not well understood by the general public. We want to establish an appropriate category—recognized as a legitimate and influential industry—with the hope that it comes into...
Oct 8, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Maps, Weather
The long dreaded Category 5 Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, were millions of residents have fled the streets of Miami Beach, and the hurricane continues north towards Tampa Georgia. Already, 23 people have suffered the wrath of the deadly storm and Islands...
Oct 4, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
I am so glad that I attended the Presentation Summit last week at Clearwater Beach, Florida. The summit was perfectly organized by Rick Altman and his team and the sessions were very inspirational, led by highly motivated people, sharing their knowledge. I was able...
Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PowerPoint is great software that lets you handle all your presentations in an easy manner. It is ideal to display charts and graphs and can even be used to build dashboard software. However, if you explore this amazing software, you will find that it is not...
Sep 5, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PresentationPoint will attend the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017. This is a yearly event that will be held at Clearwater, Florida USA, on September 24 to 27, 2017. This year will be their 15th season. The Presentation Summit is not a web conference and also it is...
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....
Jul 24, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
Imagine if very important visitors to your office or facility see large welcome screens all over your facility welcoming their visit and using their name. People love to see their name featured prominently- it makes them feel welcome and important. Welcome screens...
Jul 21, 2017 | Articles
We have a favour to ask. Would you help us by giving PresentationPoint a digital signage software review? We recently updated our listing at Capterra, a common software review web site that includes digital signage software. If you use any of our products like iPoint,...
Jul 10, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
PowerPoint™ and Excel™. Two popular Microsoft products used extensively in business. But which one is more powerful for creating business reports? Since a lot of the data needed for reports is often already in Excel, many people automatically use Excel...
Jun 26, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
Looking for an inexpensive way to create your first digital signage? Try our free digital signage software, ShowPoint. ShowPoint is a simple, yet powerful tool that lets you turn PowerPoint presentations into automatically running digital signage on TVs or computer...
Jun 19, 2017 | Articles, iPoint, Retail
Want to increase sales from each client who enters your store? Try in-store media. What is In-Store Media? In-store media is simply media like text, graphics and videos that are shown on computer monitors or TVs to customers while they browse a retail store. This kind...
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 26, 2017 | Articles, iPoint
You probably know what the Power Options of your Windows computer are. You come to your desk after a coffee break and your monitor is black. You quickly hit or move your mouse to bring back the computer screen signal. That option we are going to discuss here in...
May 19, 2017 | Articles
Fathers have a life-long influence on our lives. Fathers Day is a time to celebrate the love and influence of our fathers. We have developed these Father’s Day PowerPoint templates to help you celebrate Fathers everywhere. These templates can be...
May 8, 2017 | Articles
Ahh, summer. Being outdoors, enjoying the summer sun, and lounging at the beach. As summer gets into full swing, we have prepared our free Summer PowerPoint Template for your enjoyment. This template can be used for: digital signage presentations screensavers The...
May 5, 2017 | Articles, iPoint
One of the things that schools and universities should invest today is a digital signage. It is the best to communicate immediately with the student body in an affordable and efficient manner. Educational institutions from all across the globe have been installing...
Apr 27, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
What is a Visual PA System and how do you create one? According to Wikipedia, a Public Address System or PA system is an electronic sound amplification and distribution system with a microphone, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to allow a person to speak to a large...
Apr 17, 2017 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Financial, Food & Beverage, Retail
The template includes 10 unique slides so you can choose the one that best fits your business. The business hours templates are fully editable, so you can easily make changes if your hours change. If you have multiple locations, you can use DataPoint to automatically...
Apr 6, 2017 | Articles, Marketing and Advertising
Managing staff schedules is tough. So we created this free PowerPoint weekly schedule template to help you make sure all your positions are filled and your team knows their work schedule. The PowerPoint weekly schedule template consists of 3 different slides so you...
Mar 22, 2017 | Articles
Spring is in the air and we are all happy to have the long winter over. (Except for those winter sports people – you know who you are!) To celebrate the change of season, here is our free Spring PowerPoint template for you to download. This Spring PowerPoint...
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...
Mar 10, 2017 | Articles
To help people better understand the basics, we have put together this video and article “Introduction to Digital Signage.” What is Digital Signage? Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate your message to a specific group. Digital...
Mar 3, 2017 | Articles, Dynamic elements
Looking for ideas for your own YouTube Channel? Here are 30 YouTube ideas to get you started. Why YouTube? Why would you even want YouTube ideas anyway? Why is YouTube so important? YouTube is bigger than ANY television station. YouTube reaches 88 countries and over 1...
Mar 1, 2017 | Articles
One of the great things about digital signage is that you can change you look for holidays and seasons. Here are 11 free Easter PowerPoint templates we created to help you celebrate Easter. These Easter PowerPoint templates include: 2 countdown slides 1 digital...
Feb 17, 2017 | Articles, How-To
For the Mr Perfects and Professionals among us! We were recently working on a project of a customer and they sent in a Photoshop design of what they wanted to see on the information screens. That’s typical, most users send in a PowerPoint presentation already,...
Feb 9, 2017 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, Financial, Healthcare, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising, Retail
Lobby digital welcoming screens offer you an innovative hotspot for informing your clients, growing your brand, all while helping you to save money, time and hassles as compared to the traditional signage. Using the right display software, it is easy to setup and...
Feb 7, 2017 | Articles
Without Mothers, none of us would be here. To celebrate the powerful importance of mothers in our lives, we are releasing our free Mother’s Day PowerPoint templates. These templates can be used for: office screen savers digital signage presentations...
Feb 3, 2017 | Articles, How-To
Introduction You can perfectly use Microsoft PowerPoint to create high quality digital signage presentations for your information displays. PowerPoint is great for displaying a clock, RSS news, weather forecasts, messages, announcements, advertising and many more on...
Jan 31, 2017 | Articles
We write about a lot of cool stuff here. But do you want to know what is REALLY amazing to us? How creative our customers are! We craft our software and then our customers use it in ways we hadn’t thought of. Now we want YOU to send us YOUR pictures, videos or...
Jan 24, 2017 | Articles
St Patrick’s Day is coming in March and soon we will be seeing a flood of people wearing green ties, hats and other clothing to celebrate Irish tradition. Now you can add a little luck of the Irish to your own workplace using these free St Patrick’s Day...
Jan 20, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
Speed, reliability, and transparency – these are three of the most important things that should be given emphasis when it comes to business reporting. Given its critical role in business operations, these reports should be well-crafted and should be prudent. It is...
Jan 11, 2017 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare
Waiting rooms are common in government offices, medical facilities, banks, bakeries, butcher shops and other offices. Managing waiting queues effectively is critical to your customer and patient well-being. In this article, we will show you how to use a Bluetooth...
Jan 9, 2017 | Articles
Here at PresentationPoint, we are feeling the love in the air. So we gift to you our Valentine PowerPoint template to celebrate the season of romance. If you have digital signage in your restaurant, coffee shop, hotel, store or other facility, changing the look to...
Jan 6, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
PowerPoint remains as one of the best programs for creating presentations. It has the ability to finalize a business report in a visually pleasing and more usable way, especially when compared to other tools like Access or Excel. Read on below and learn a few reasons...
Dec 29, 2016 | Articles, iPoint
Digital signs have been popular in recent years because of their abundance of applications. They are used by businesses to promote their products and services. They are also used in restaurants to display their menu or in stores to inform buyers of what they are...
Dec 26, 2016 | Articles
SIXTEEN:NINE, an online news publication focused on the digital signage industry interviews the founder of PresentationPoint, Kurt Dupont and discusses how our software works and some real life case uses. Interview with PowerPoint MVP Ellen...
Dec 21, 2016 | Articles, How-To
PowerPoint is great for designing leaflets, posters and other forms of advertising. It is a great, powerful but easy tool to generate your documents and graphics. High-end software like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator is not needed. In this article, we will learn...
Dec 9, 2016 | Articles, How-To
Some people use PowerPoint for advertisements and information screens. Typically for those type of presentations, you need to create astonishing presentations with great visuals. For them, showing high-resolution quality images in PowerPoint are crucial! But, when...
Nov 22, 2016 | Articles
Ring in the New Year with these free New Year’s PowerPoint templates. Normal Microsoft PowerPoint templates so they can be used anywhere Smooth animations Includes real-time countdown templates to the New Year (connect via Dynamic Time) Use these templates to:...
Nov 15, 2016 | Articles
It is that time of the year again and our team at PresentationPoint are in the gift giving spirit. So here are 20 free Christmas PowerPoint templates for you to download. These Christmas PowerPoint templates can be used: As backgrounds for your Christmas digital...
Nov 11, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
The truth is that there are quite a lot of different tools that you can take advantage of in order to visually represent your idea in front of investors, business partners, managers, and whatnot. This is because of the vast improvement of the internet technologies and...
Nov 4, 2016 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Broadcasting, Case Studies, Dynamic elements
And having surfed a night or 3 on the web, I knew one thing. That Digital Signage is going to cost a lot of money. Sander Brand Volunteer at a radio station at Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Lokaal 7 Imagine you work at a radio station with a bunch of volunteers and...
Nov 2, 2016 | Articles
PresentationPoint releases a new PowerPoint add-on called VideoPoint. It is the first add-on to display live output from webcams and IP cameras on your PowerPoint slide show. Why would you like to display camera output to your slides, you might ask. Output from a...
Oct 29, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, Food & Beverage, iPoint
What do you do when your restaurant menu is too awesome to fit on just one screen? Go multiscreen! Here are some tips on how to create multiscreen digital menu boards.Here is some software we will be using to manage this process.PowerPoint – PowerPoint handles...
Oct 22, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Elections, Government
It’s election time and people are clamoring for the latest up-to-date polling or voting information. In this article, we’ll discuss how to display live election results in a PowerPoint presentation. How can this be used? This could be used by broadcasters...
Oct 7, 2016 | Articles
There is a nice feature in DataPoint that lets you be more creative with the dynamic content of your text boxes. Look at the Excel file below. DataPoint technology is used here to dynamically display information on your slides that is coming from Excel files, other...
Sep 23, 2016 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Aug 29, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Aug 15, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
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...
Aug 8, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, Dynamic elements, Financial, Hotel, iPoint
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...
Jul 25, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
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...
Jul 18, 2016 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Jul 11, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To
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...
May 18, 2016 | Articles, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, How-To, Industrial/Manufacturing, Reporting
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...
May 3, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Financial, Marketing and Advertising
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...
Apr 5, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Mar 28, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Mar 17, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Healthcare
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...
Feb 25, 2016 | Articles, How-To
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...
Feb 18, 2016 | Articles, How-To
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...
Feb 5, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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. 🙂...
Feb 4, 2016 | Articles
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...
Jan 27, 2016 | Articles, iPoint
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...
Jan 18, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Jan 12, 2016 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, How-To, Retail
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...
Jan 5, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation
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...
Dec 28, 2015 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Non-profit
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...
Dec 28, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens
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...
Dec 23, 2015 | Articles, iPoint
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...
Dec 22, 2015 | Articles, How-To
To help answer people’s questions about PowerPoint and digital signage, we put together a short, easy to follow: “How to use PowerPoint for Digital Signage” free online course. Some of the topics include: Why PowerPoint is great for digital signage...
Dec 17, 2015 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, How-To, Retail
Dear Local business owner, Does Your Current Queue Management System Cost Too Much and Provide Too Little? Do you want to display much more than 2 digits to your waiting customers? Are you looking for a Professional Queue Management Solution that your business...
Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
Let’s compare this time presentations created with Microsoft PowerPoint and videos created by for example Adobe After Effects or any other video creation tool. Microsoft PowerPoint is the tool the create presentations or slideshows, with slides after each other...
Dec 7, 2015 | Articles, Dynamic elements, Food & Beverage, How-To, Marketing and Advertising, Retail
Hello. Are you a business manager scouring the web looking for companies that offer Multi-view / Multiple Monitor systems and you keep seeing the same thing over and over? Well, we are glad you landed on our page and are fairly confident this will be the last place...
Dec 3, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Food & Beverage, How-To
Can you imagine a pub without a television? Yes, all the pubs have a television to show sports and news etc. But pubs also start using televisions or computer screens to show information about their own pub. Why not? There is so many things to say on an electronic...
Dec 1, 2015 | Articles, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
Why use PowerPoint? With more people using their laptops, tablets and smartphones to work these days, it has become relatively easy to create PowerPoint presentations. After exploding onto the scene in a blaze of glory in early 2000, PowerPoint Digital Signage...
Nov 24, 2015 | Articles, Attractions and Events, Case Studies, Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Reporting, Scoreboards
Critical data driven television output Most, if not all, auction houses use data driven presentations, like here on this image, a recent record-breaking auction at Sotheby’s. With a data driven and, more important, real-time presentation, you can display bidding...
Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, How-To
Last week, I checked in at a nice hotel. Close to the reception desk, there was a big television screen mounted to the wall. It played an hotel promotion video showing the rooms, facilities, restaurants etc. A wide-screen or typical 16:9 movie on a typical television...
Nov 10, 2015 | Articles, How-To
Microsoft learns you that, by default, the pointer or cursor in a slideshow, hides automatically after three seconds of inactivity. The pointer reappears when you move the mouse. There are scenarios possible where the pointer is not hidden automatically when using...
Sep 22, 2015 | Articles
Microsoft just released the new Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows and this is how our DataPoint ribbon looks like. New in PowerPoint 2016 is: Do things quickly with Tell Me You’ll notice a text box on the ribbon in PowerPoint 2016 that says Tell me what you want...
Sep 10, 2015 | Articles
Often people ask us what computer they should use for their PowerPoint information screens, or digital signage screens. We have written an article on digital signage and in there, we give some information on what digital signage is, what our products can do, and what...
Aug 11, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens
In this article, we will show you how to use Data Driven PowerPoint presentations to create automatically updating PowerPoint presentations. How Are Data Driven PowerPoint Presentations Used? Here are some of the ways our clients use data driven PowerPoint...
