PowerPoint Integrations
PowerPoint is a fantastic tool that most organizations have easy access to. PowerPoint is even more powerful when you use these PowerPoint integrations we’ve provided:
Let’s look at each of these and see how they work.
Digital Signage PowerPoint Integration
Digital signage is growing exponentially as people discover the flexibility of displaying their signs and advertising on monitors and TVs instead of expensive printed or plastic signage.
To integrate your digital signage with PowerPoint, our iPoint digital signage software has PowerPoint integration built in to let you easily show your PowerPoints, images, videos, audio files and other media on your digital signage.
Facebook PowerPoint Integration
To integrate PowerPoint with Facebook, we have created DataPoint and Dynamic Likes, a PowerPoint integration that lets you show Facebook likes and general page info in real-time on any PowerPoint slide. DataPoint also allows you to show your Facebook posts.
Google Calendar Integration with PowerPoint
Google Calendar is the most popular calendar program worldwide. Millions of professionals and home users rely on Google’s web-based calendar and related apps to manage their appointments and activities.
Using our DataPoint PowerPoint add-on, you can connect your PowerPoint presentations to any Google Calendar. Our clients use this to:
- show team availability
- manage bookings for meeting and training rooms
- display live, updating event calendars for event facilities
- and much more
Google Sheets PowerPoint Integrations
Google Sheets has become a popular online alternative to Microsoft Excel. Our Google Sheets PowerPoint integrations let you connect any PowerPoint presentation to your live data on Google Sheets.
This lets you create charts that update in real-time as well as tables that always include your latest figures.
Instagram PowerPoint Integration
Connect your presentation to your Instagram feed. Show your feed, views and other data.
JSON PowerPoint Integration
According to Wikipedia, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open-standard data file format used commonly in browser-server communication that is used by many different programming languages (not just JavaScript). Our DataPoint software includes JSON PowerPoint integration so you can easily connect to any JSON data feed.
Microsoft Access PowerPoint Integration
Microsoft Access is a database system from Microsoft and is part of the popular Microsoft Office software suite. Our DataPoint software includes built-in Microsoft Access PowerPoint integration so you can show data from Access in real-time in any PowerPoint presentation.
Microsoft Dynamics PowerPoint Integration
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software applications. Microsoft markets Dynamics applications through a network of reselling partners who provide specialized services. Microsoft Dynamics forms part of “Microsoft Business Solutions”.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel has become the world-leading industry standard for spreadsheets. Excel is part of the Microsoft Office software bundle. Datapoint lets you connect to the huge amounts of data currently kept in spreadsheets. In addition, most data programs have an export to Excel option, allowing you to connect to data sources you normally might not realize you can connect to.
Next to Excel spreadsheets on your local hard drive or local network, you can also connect directly to Excel files located on a HTTPS location, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Azure and SharePoint Online.
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Exchange Server is an e-mail and calendar server developed by Microsoft. Our Exchange integration using DataPoint lets you display email messages, calendar items, appointments, contacts, notes and tasks in real-time. You can also use the integration to create your own meeting room booking system.
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is an intranet set up for teams to let them share and manage content, knowledge, and applications organization-wide. It helps enable collaboration among team members. Our DataPoint software lets you connect your PowerPoint presentations to your SharePoint data.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a database network server that runs on Windows, Linux and Docker containers. You can create queries in our DataPoint software to retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Servers and display them in your PowerPoint presentations for live data or reporting purposes.
Microsoft Yammer
Yammer is an enterprise level communication tool for organizations. It gives your groups a shared suite of resources to manage documents, showcase content, share notes and organize responsibilities. Yammer is part of the Office 365 Suite. Our DataPoint tool can be used to integrate Yammer with any PowerPoint presentation.
MySQL
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database. Any data contained in your MySQL databases can be shown in PowerPoint using DataPoint.
News
Show a wide range of the world’s top news feeds in any PowerPoint presentation using Dynamic Elements or DataPoint.
These news feeds will automatically update based on the frequency you choose.
Numberish
Numberish simplifies the way you share and consume information. Numberish’s easy-to-use dashboard prioritizes and displays numbers, to-do’s, countdowns, calendars, stats, dollars and everything else that is important to you.
oData
OData stands for Open Data Protocol. It is an open protocol that allows the creation of RESTFUL (Representational State Transfer) APIs for creating web services. Our DataPoint software allows you to use OData live in your PowerPoint presentations.
ODBC
ODBC stands for Open Database Connectivity. ODBC is an API (Application Programming Interface) for accessing database management system. ODBC aims to be independent of database and operating systems, making it easier to port applications written in ODBC from one platform to another. Once again, DataPoint lets you make real-time database connections using ODBC.
OLE DB
OLE DB stands for Object Linking and Embedding, Database. This is an API written by Microsoft. Once again, you can use DataPoint to gather information directly via this API.
OPC Data Integration
OPC stands for Open Platform Communications, This is a series of standards for industrial communications. These are used for communication of real-time data between automation control devices from different manufacturers. Common in the manufacturing industry and in what is commonly called Industry 4.0. Our DataPoint Industrial Edition has been built to handle OPC Data.
Oracle
Oracle is a proprietary database format from Oracle Corporation. Customers using Oracle databases can use our Oracle PowerPoint integration in DataPoint to show real-time data from any Oracle database.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. It was originally named POSTGRES, referring to its origins as a successor to the Ingres database developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
RSS Feed Integration
RSS is a type of web feed that allows users to access updates to web sites, news, etc. using a standard readable format. Our DataPoint PowerPoint add-on lets you display live, real-time updating RSS feeds in PowerPoint. This is used by many facilities to show up to date news and weather on computer monitors and TVs.
Salesforce PowerPoint Integration
Pull information directly from Salesforce and show it in your PowerPoint dashboards. Great for extracting KPIs.
Text Files
Text files are some of the oldest form of databases around. Our DataPoint text files/PowerPoint Integration can handle most of the common text file formats, including tab-separated, comma-separated or custom separated files.
Twitter Integration
Twitter is one of the most popular forms of social media. Our Twitter/PowerPoint integration lets you show a live-updating Twitter feed in real-time.
Weather PowerPoint Integration
Weather is one of the most searched terms in search engines and many facilities are now showing the local weather and news on their digital signage to keep employees and visitors informed.
Our Dynamic Elements and DataPoint add-ons let you show live weather updates on any computer monitor or TV screen.
XML Integration
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is a markup language much like HTML. Our DataPoint PowerPoint add-in lets you connect directly to XML sources to display your data in real-time.
Looking for other PowerPoint integrations?
If you want other PowerPoint integrations you don’t see here, or have a question about any of the integrations listed, please contact us.
