Jan 24, 2022 | Articles, How-To, iPoint, SignageTube
Digital Signage software is a very important aspect of any business that wants to grow their engagement and customer base. As well as if any company wants to create a positive impact worldwide, then what is better than advertising through digital signage displays? But...
Nov 30, 2021 | Articles, DataPoint, Digital Signage, Education, iPoint, SignageTube
Technology has made our daily lives effortless in almost every aspect. Especially when the pandemic hit us and going outside for either work or school became totally restricted. Technology played a pivotal role and connected us with our family, school, work etc. With...
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 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 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...
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...
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 26, 2020 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Automation, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
Most of us have come across Microsoft PowerPoint at one point, whether we had to give a presentation or sit in on a presentation where the speaker was using PowerPoint. But presentations are only the tip of the iceberg – Here are some creative PowerPoint uses...
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 19, 2019 | Articles, FAQ, iPoint
I know that many of you who have followed PresentationPoint for some time and have seen our SignageTube launch information are smart enough to have probably noticed something odd. You might be thinking something like… “SignageTube for digital signage?...
Sep 14, 2019 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Food & Beverage, iPoint, Retail
The number of businesses using, digital signage screens to share information has expanded over the years. Administrators of restaurants, departure terminals, schools, colleges, and hospitals have adopted digital signage for a more effective method of disseminating...
Aug 24, 2019 | Articles, Attractions and Events, DataPoint, iPoint
When walking around in an exhibition center the most important subject is way finding. Most exhibitions have arrows in the air or lines on the ground but more centers are switching to digital signage solutions. Displaying the arrows on a monitor is the future. Look...
May 4, 2019 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, FAQ, iPoint
How can I Play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV? SG Sometimes you need to display a PowerPoint slideshow on a TV to show your presentation on the meeting, a conference, or use the slideshow for an information screen or advertising display. Most of our customers use this...
Mar 23, 2019 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint
How to set up a data-driven digital signage solution? That is what we do. Providing software for data-driven presentations and digital signage. Basically, this is a combination of 2 our major products: DataPoint and iPoint. The setup is absolutely not complex, but...
Mar 9, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
Technological advancement has led to the digitization of information. Digitized information allows you to know so much within a limited time frame. This can happen when the information is presented on an infoscreen with as few words as possible and with currently...
Feb 9, 2019 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
When you are in the train stations, airports, or shopping malls, you will see video advertising for clothing, electronic devices, bags, perfumes etc. everywhere. They are using very attractive and colorful television screens to broadcast their ads. These screens...
Jan 26, 2019 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Digital Signage, iPoint, Non-profit
Another serious Belgian arts center, cultuurcentrum Hasselt, has chosen PresentationPoint software for the real-time data-driven information screens at their venue. They were using Xibo as free digital signage platform, displaying an HTML page reading out data from an...
Oct 20, 2018 | Attractions and Events, Case Studies, DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
CC De Werf is a Belgian arts center from Aalst that was already using a digital signage solution that they bought. This system was a Flash-based. To illustrate what they needed, they created a PowerPoint(!) slideshow that they would send to an external supplier who...
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...
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...
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...
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 31, 2017 | iPoint
With our digital signage system iPoint, you set up a digital signage playlist of multi-media files to serve all purposes. You might want to announce the opening of a new shop, or display this week’s promotions. For this, first set up a playlist in our scheduler...
Jul 17, 2017 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
Our product called iPoint is a great software solution to create, assign and distribute playlists with presentations and videos to remote television screens. Professional people call this digital signage. Not only is iPoint great for digital signage, you can also use...
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 12, 2017 | DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint
Digital Signage Player Introduction We have many experiences in setting up computers as a digital signage player. Let’s give an expert overview on the actions that you need to execute to turn a (new) computer into a full functioning and full operational digital...
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 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 21, 2017 | How-To, iPoint
A digital signage planning tool allows you to create and schedule playlists. A playlist is a list of multimedia files that you want to play together on your digital signage screens in your school, office or factory. In this article, we will show you how to set digital...
Apr 11, 2017 | iPoint
With this message we would like to announce a change of behavior of our Digital Signage iPoint product. iPoint is great in displaying PowerPoint presentations in your digital signage playlists next to images and videos. Previously in iPoint, each PowerPoint...
Apr 7, 2017 | iPoint
Our iPoint Scheduler application is the heart of our iPoint Digital Signage software system. Next to the server component and the player software, the scheduler application is used to create playlists, assign playlists to the digital signage players and to monitor...
Mar 30, 2017 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
You are running an advertising system or digital signage system for your customers or you have a shop and you show commercials of your vendors. Then they will ask for proof of play. You can provide this proof by setting up digital signage advertising tracking. They...
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 26, 2017 | How-To, iPoint
This is without a doubt a great question. Fortunately, we’ve come up with three comprehensive solutions that you can take to your advantage in order to make this happen. It’s a great way to use PowerPoint presentations on a television in a lot of different venues such...
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...
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...
Aug 23, 2016 | Case Studies, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Healthcare, iPoint
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...
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...
Feb 15, 2016 | How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
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...
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...
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 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 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...
Oct 26, 2015 | How-To, iPoint
In this article we will show you how you can create a playlist with images and schedule the playlist for playback on remote computers. Why would you use images for digital signage? As explained in our article about the digital signage components of iPoint, we use the...
Sep 30, 2015 | DataPoint, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint
We often get the question on how to set up a PowerPoint presentation in a specific resolution. Here is what we answer. Output device It is best to know your output display device upfront. You better start a presentation in a given resolution or size, before you add...
Sep 28, 2015 | How-To, iPoint
Content for the information screens or digital signage, is written into a playlist, like the user has a music playlist for the iPod or iPhone device. Via the digital signage application, the user create digital signage playlists, and set up a schedule to display it...
Jul 15, 2015 | Articles, How-To, iPoint
We all know what a playlist is in the world of music. With the digital signage the user has a playlist but then for video files like images, video files and PowerPoint presentations. A digital signage playlist is a list of files that belongs to a logical group. At a...
Jul 8, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, iPoint
Our digital signage solution iPoint has 3 components: Server to hold and store the playlists and screen information The Scheduler to configure the digital signage players, set up playlists and assign playlists to players The Player component to run the scheduled...
Jan 14, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint Real-time Screens, How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising
We are often asked ‘what does your company sell?’ and ‘what does your software do?’. We reply that primarily we sell ‘software for digital signage’ however most people do not understand what this includes. The following explanation should clarify what our software for...
Nov 24, 2014 | Attractions and Events, DataPoint Real-time Screens, Food & Beverage, How-To, iPoint, Marketing and Advertising, Retail
Screens are our most powerful way to get information. Daily we use our TV’s, computer monitors, tablets and smart phones to work, communicate, play, and shop. Our eyes are automatically, hypnotically drawn to digital signs. We have learned to ignore print...
