Oct 30, 2024 | Articles, Evergreen, Financial
In the world of finance, time is not a mere commodity—it’s the backbone of success. The ability to swiftly gather, analyze, and report on financial data can mean the difference between riding ahead of the wave or being swallowed by the tide. DataPoint, a product...
Jul 5, 2024 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Financial
In today’s fast-paced business environment, having access to real-time financial data is crucial for making informed decisions. Financial dashboards provide a visual representation of key business metrics, helping stakeholders monitor performance and identify...
Jun 26, 2024 | Articles, DataPoint, Financial, Reporting
In the fast-paced financial sector, where data drives decisions and accurate, up-to-the-minute information is non-negotiable, the ability to efficiently generate documents and presentations with the latest data is crucial. PresentationPoint’s DataPoint software...
May 29, 2024 | Articles, DataPoint, Financial, Reporting
Financial document automation facilitated by DataPoint works by enabling the seamless integration and real-time presentation of financial data within PowerPoint presentations, digital signage, and other documents. Here’s a breakdown of how it operates. 1. Create...
Mar 27, 2023 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, Financial, Reporting
Data is a key component of any business. The information you gather can be used to make important decisions, connect with new customers, and even show off to investors. But what do you do when you have multiple sources of data? How can you combine data from all your...
Mar 2, 2023 | Data Dashboards, DataPoint, Financial, Reporting
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are a great way to measure the performance of your business. They show how you’re doing against your goals and help you keep track of changes over time. KPI templates for a PowerPoint presentation can be used for many different...
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...
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...
May 3, 2020 | Articles, Attractions and Events, CounterPoint, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare
Streamlining your waiting queues is important for the well-being of your customers. It brings tranquility to your waiting area and it takes away stress. Imagine that you have to ask something, or arrange something. You go to that business or that location. That can be...
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...
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...
May 25, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, Financial
How do I add a ticker symbol using DataPoint? Something like this where it would auto update and we could do several other companies… BP We were recommending the Yahoo API for that earlier, but Yahoo has been shutting down some data services. We have found another...
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 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...
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...
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...
Jan 13, 2017 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Healthcare
We listen to our customers. That is for sure. This is a typical sample. After that we released our update notification sound earlier, a user was requesting PowerPoint text to speech capabilities. Believe it or not, less than 2 weeks later, it was implemented and...
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...
Dec 2, 2016 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, How-To, Retail
Our software is often used as queue management software for banks, attractions and waiting rooms. You enter the waiting area of a building and pick your number and then wait until your number is displayed. With the number that you got from the ticket dispenser, you...
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...
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...
Mar 24, 2016 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial
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...
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...
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...
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...
Aug 7, 2015 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Financial, Healthcare
Today a very simple article on a mechanism that is frequently used on information screens when you enter a building like e.g. school, hospital or city hall. They welcome visitors with today’s date and time but also with a greeting in text like good morning, good...
Oct 9, 2014 | DataPoint, Financial, How-To
Different currencies are used worldwide for business and travel. When you do business with another country you might have to deal with a different currency that you are used to use in your own country. To estimate a value you need to know the current exchange rate...
