Dec 1, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Nov 17, 2018 | DataPoint
We have created many videos showing various aspects of how DataPoint can be used to connect PowerPoint to data to create digital signage, digital menu boards, and data-driven presentations. But these videos are scattered across our blog and YouTube Channel, making it...
Nov 10, 2018 | DataPoint, References
For our case study this time, we travel to the City of Winter Springs, Florida. Winter Springs is a city of 33,282 located in Seminole County Florida. The Problem The City of Winter Springs has bi-monthly Commission meetings between the public and their elected...
Oct 27, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
Why organizations need data-driven presentation software for its logistical sector Relying 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 20, 2018 | DataPoint, iPoint, References
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...
Oct 7, 2018 | DataPoint
Information screens are very effective for communication. You are using PowerPoint to easily design your slideshow. Next to that, DataPoint as add-on for PowerPoint to displays data in real-time. Finally you show your slideshow on a computer or large television...
Sep 30, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, TickerPoint
A PowerPoint ticker text animation on your slides is great to use. Most people place or expect a text ticker, ticker tape or text marquee at the bottom of the presentation or television screen. There are a few good reasons to use a PowerPoint ticker: First of all, it...
Sep 14, 2018 | DataPoint
When you are traveling by air, then you go to the airport and you look at the flight information screens that are present all over the airport. When you are departing then you first check the check in desk for your airline or flight. This flight information is...
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
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 5, 2018 | DataPoint
Countdown timer displays are often used for counting down to a specific date, or a timer to count since there is a specific date. Countdowns are often used to count down to New Year, Christmas, the end of the Ramadan, opening of a new shop, to show how long a speaker...
Jul 29, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
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
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...
Jul 14, 2018 | DataPoint
A text box is the most used shape on your PowerPoint slides and it can comes in various flavors and colors. A text box can simply contain one word, multiple words or maybe multiple lines of text. But how do you handle variable text that might range from 10 characters...
Jun 17, 2018 | DataPoint
It is summer now at the northern hemisphere and in summer you can have severe weather conditions and thunderstorms. Most of the times, people get warned for this type of weather so that they can secure everything around the house. Weather web sites are regularly...
Jun 10, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Jun 3, 2018 | DataPoint, FAQ
In this article, we answer a customers’s question about getting data into PowerPoint certificates. I have the names in an excel document and I have a designated text field within a PowerPoint slide (which is where I have the certificate currently). I was going...
May 27, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
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 20, 2018 | DataPoint
We live in a data-driven era characterized by the ease with which we can access information. The abundant availability of data opens up doors to many novel applications, and data-driven presentations are among the most exciting of them. Just like regular...
May 13, 2018 | DataPoint, References
Today we look at a real life case study how one of our customers uses our software to create a custom KPI dashboard. A KPI dashboard is where you use software to report your key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time. HD Supply Holdings Inc. is one of the largest...
May 6, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint, 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 28, 2018 | DataPoint, FAQ
In our new FAQ section we discuss a frequently asked question that we get in at our helpdesk. This time we were asked how to use linked pictures for events on slides and we want to share this question and its possible solutions with you. I am working with a small...
Apr 15, 2018 | DataPoint
In this article, we will discuss how you can use our tools to create a Twitter wall. We revised our Twitter data provider and it can now display a profile image and the featured image of a Tweet. In this example, we will create a Twitter wall feed from a PowerPoint...
Mar 25, 2018 | DataPoint
OutlookPoint was our add-on for Microsoft Outlook to read out information from your Outlook store. OutlookPoint running in your Outlook application was continuously exporting your chosen data to an OutlookPoint Microsoft Access database. But that has changed as of...
Mar 4, 2018 | DataPoint
And again we added a new data provider to DataPoint. This new data provider allows you to connect to your Microsoft Yammer business network and display messages in real-time on the slides of your information screen. Click to open DataPoint and click the List button...
Jan 28, 2018 | DataPoint
A PowerPoint dashboard with real-time data on gauges is very easy to build with the DataPoint for PowerPoint add-on. Use DataPoint to connect your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to a data source of your choice. Often databases and spreadsheets are used. Let’s...
Jan 21, 2018 | DataPoint, 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...
Jan 6, 2018 | Articles, DataPoint
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 17, 2017 | DataPoint
Next to Google Calendar, there is another great Google service in the cloud: Google Sheets. It is a spreadsheet application, like Microsoft Excel, but then hosted in the cloud. The best part of Google Sheets feature is that you only need an internet browser to access...
Dec 10, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, 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...
Nov 26, 2017 | DataPoint
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...
Nov 19, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Nov 12, 2017 | DataPoint, How-To
Charts are great to visualize data. Look at a simple bar chart. It visualizes information and immediately plots the information on an X and Y axis. Products compared to countries, teams compared to productivity, and so on. Or a pie chart. See what part of the pie is...
Oct 29, 2017 | DataPoint, How-To
Create your own DIY PowerPoint presentation that counts down automatically to New Year. Set a target date, January 1 2018, and run your slide show. The slide will count down the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds. Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint, or our...
Oct 20, 2017 | DataPoint, How-To
Create your own DIY PowerPoint presentation that counts down automatically to Christmas. Set a target date, December 25, and run your slide show. The slide will count down the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds. Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint, or our...
Oct 15, 2017 | DataPoint
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...
Oct 8, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Sep 25, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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 17, 2017 | DataPoint
Our DataPoint software product is a great aid for linking PowerPoint tables to data sources for real-time updates. For this article, we will run the linking steps. You can use any data source like a database or Excel sheet. For the full instructions for the Excel...
Sep 4, 2017 | DataPoint, References
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...
Aug 21, 2017 | DataPoint
PowerPoint tables are really the most flexible shape that you can place on PowerPoint slides. A text box is great too because you can fully customize the text box individually, but a table is more flexible since it combines quickly a number of rows and columns that...
Aug 2, 2017 | DataPoint, References
Still DataPoint crushes the competition for ease of use and deployability. We use Intel Compute Sticks connected to 55 inch screens in different modes and flavors… It’s AMAZING to see how creative we can get when creating new Digital Signage… and the...
Jul 10, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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 to create...
Jun 2, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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, 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 and 2016 as we write. Dynamic Elements is a series of...
May 1, 2017 | DataPoint, References
Recently there was an interesting question about PowerPoint add-ins on Quora: What are the best PowerPoint add-ins to improve team and individual productivity? Geetesh answers this question and names DataPoint in his list of best PowerPoint add-ins to improve team and...
Apr 27, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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 13, 2017 | DataPoint, How-To
Our business is data driven presentations. But what is a data presentation exactly? Let me try to explain that to you with a real life situation. When you are travelling, you arrive in the airport and the first thing that you will do when you enter the airport...
Mar 24, 2017 | DataPoint
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...
Mar 22, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, 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 17, 2017 | DataPoint
PresentationPoint added a new cool feature to its DataPoint product. Your data driven PowerPoint presentations can now benefit from a local data cache in PowerPoint. All data is retrieved from the servers each time you open a data driven presentation, internet web...
Feb 24, 2017 | DataPoint, 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...
Feb 9, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint, iPoint
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 20, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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 13, 2017 | DataPoint
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, DataPoint
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 6, 2017 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Jan 4, 2017 | DataPoint, How-To
The Super Bowl is thought by many to be the United States’ biggest sporting event. In this article, we will show you how to display the Super Bowl live score in PowerPoint. This can be used for: Digital Signage: Show the Super Bowl live score to patrons of your...
Dec 16, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
PowerPoint as Information Screen You are on the right track already when you display real-time data on a television or computer screen with Microsoft PowerPoint. Like a message board or information screen in your company, school or factory. DataPoint technology can be...
Dec 2, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
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...
Nov 29, 2016 | DataPoint, References
Digital Signage at Churches After researching several products from larger more technical to smaller solutions, we settled on DataPoint by PresentationPoint. We needed a solution for our new facility that would accommodate a flexible display and presentation for the...
Nov 25, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
With DataPoint you link your PowerPoint presentation to various databases and files. Some people set up many different connections in one presentation. But at a given day, you have to change some data. Maybe the username, the name of the file or the path to your data...
Nov 18, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Sometimes you use DataPoint extensively. Not just where you assign a dynamic value from your database, but more like rules and formatting, replacement texts, ticker definitions etc. A lot of work on one text box only, while you maybe have many other similar text boxes...
Nov 11, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, 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...
Oct 29, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, 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
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 20, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Introduction In today’s blog article, we will show you how you can insert and link a picture of a web site into your PowerPoint slide. Often, we are asked to display weather maps or traffic maps on an information screen. We will show you the easy steps on how...
Oct 14, 2016 | DataPoint
You need a good data source if you want to display real-time weather information on your information display. A good source is the Dark Sky Weather API, formerly known as Forecast.io. You can sign up as a user to start accessing the weather API. We start with this...
Sep 30, 2016 | DataPoint, Dynamic elements
Real-time weather information can be shown with the DataPoint and Dynamic Weather PowerPoint add-ons. Those add-ons connect to a given weather API to retrieve the current weather condition and the conditions for the next couple of days. The condition is typically...
Sep 23, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Sep 16, 2016 | DataPoint
Recently DataPoint got a few new data providers. Before, we already had a RSS data provider in DataPoint, but we decided to add a new RSS data provider with more functionality. First of all, all featured photos are copied locally, only once, before they are being...
Sep 9, 2016 | DataPoint
Our DataPoint tool for Microsoft PowerPoint is great to display in real-time database information on your slides. For databases, you use an SQL statement to retrieve the informations that you want. With the SQL statement you can select the data of one or more tables,...
Sep 4, 2016 | DataPoint
Let’s bring this static PowerPoint presentation to live with real-time weather information. For this article, we will use the Yahoo Weather data provider as we have in our DataPoint for PowerPoint add-on. We will start with this static designed presentation....
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
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 8, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, Dynamic elements, 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...
Aug 1, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
We have 2 possible scenarios for displaying a PowerPoint clock. This is a dedicated time add-on for using a PowerPoint clock to display the time or date in a presentation. This is very easy to use and can use a clock, calendar, count down, timer etc. If you need to...
Jul 18, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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
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...
Jul 4, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
We have 3 possible scenarios for displaying weather. This is a dedicated weather add-on for PowerPoint to display weather information in a presentation. This is very easy to use and it can show current weather information and forecasts. If you need to display the...
Jun 29, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
People who use PowerPoint for digital signage and dynamic information screens, often use external pictures on their slides. When you use our software to display live news on your slides, then you can add a featured image, next to the headline. Since the news articles...
Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To
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 set up a KPI dashboard using...
Jun 23, 2016 | DataPoint
With the next release of DataPoint, PresentationPoint adds 6 more data providers to the list. A data provider is a connectivity layer in DataPoint to link your PowerPoint shapes to data sources like databases, XML, Excel and other files. Earlier this year, we added...
Jun 13, 2016 | DataPoint
Every week we get the question on how you can prevent all columns of your dataset that are copied one by one in the table on your PowerPoint slide. People use DataPoint to link to data of any format and then display this information in real-time in PowerPoint tables....
May 30, 2016 | DataPoint
Text and CSV files are databases in the most simplest form. You don’t need a specific database server software. You just store the data in a text file. Unencrypted, unprotected, no compression and no intelligent indexing system on it. In most cases, a text file...
May 23, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
There are some handy shortcuts in DataPoint to do things much quicker. Let us illustrate this with some sample data like addresses. We have our raw address information stored in Excel like this: Then we use DataPoint to set up a connection to that Excel and we will...
May 18, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint, How-To, References
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 10, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
OData or Open Data Protocol, allows you to connect to RESTful APIs in a simple and standard way. Typically you will find an oData service with one or more resources with data. DataPoint allows you to connect to an oData service (and more). You can use DataPoint to...
May 3, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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 26, 2016 | DataPoint
Our DataPoint add-on for PowerPoint allows you to connect your presentation to a JSON file or data source, and then display this JSON information in real-time on your information screen or in your PowerPoint reports. JSON or JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight...
Apr 19, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Today we released a new version of our DataPoint product. Next to images, text boxes, charts, tables, … that you can link to dynamic information for real-time content, we have added something revolutionary; dynamic pointers on your slides. You can now display...
Apr 12, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
When you use our DataPoint technology to display real-time information on your PowerPoint slides, then you are displaying dynamic information from a data source. Typical for dynamic values, is that you have no real control over the minimum or maximum length of the...
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 30, 2016 | DataPoint
Terrorist attacks, disasters, shootings and so on, keeps us tied to the news and we watch as many news channels as possible. News papers, news websites, Facebook, Twitter, radio and so on. With the recent terrorist attacks, we probably all have the same behaviour. We...
Mar 28, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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 24, 2016 | DataPoint
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...
Mar 17, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Mar 9, 2016 | DataPoint
We all know the places where you have such information screens displaying a list. Look at flight information at an airport, departing trains at a station, job listings, movies in a cinema, exhibitions etc. They are all look similar. At the first row you will find some...
Mar 3, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Generate Presentations with the Task Scheduler DataPoint is the tool to update your slide content automatically. With this PowerPoint add-on, you can link your slides to any data source for up-to-date presentations. And PowerPoint is great for presenting...
Feb 12, 2016 | DataPoint
Real-time data on your information screen is hot to look at, and not that difficult to produce. The most used tool to create presentations, Microsoft PowerPoint, in combination with the DataPoint add-on, brings real-time data to your slides or slideshows. You can...
Feb 10, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
What are Text Tickers? It probably started on television. Display text or graphical information on your television channel, on top of the broadcast. Often it is used as a text ticker for special events, interruptions, news messages and announcements. The advantage of...
Jan 29, 2016 | DataPoint
A new feature is upcoming for DataPoint. DataPoint is used to link PowerPoint shapes to data sources like databases, XML files, RSS feeds, Excel data sheets etc. In that way, you always have the latest information on your slides. You can link the content of a data...
Jan 25, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Today, you will learn a great trick for a PowerPoint presentation. You can make your PowerPoint presentations completely dynamic. Watch how you can connect a PowerPoint text box to a data source and use text boxes as dynamic text boxes on your slides. Set Up a Data...
Jan 21, 2016 | DataPoint
Hyperlinks in PowerPoint presentations can be great when you have presentations with links to other documents, presentations, external files or websites. On a slide, you can give some minimal information and invite people to click for a more...
Jan 14, 2016 | DataPoint
Learn how to use DataPoint technology to show live XML data on your slides. You will see how to connect your textboxes, tables and charts to XML data on your computer, or XML data residing on the internet. When you open your PowerPoint presentation, the content of...
Jan 7, 2016 | DataPoint, How-To
Let’s build a data driven SQL presentation that get its information directly from a Microsoft SQL Server database. With DataPoint you can link your slides to a database and display real-time information on your slideshow or view the latest information on your...
Jan 5, 2016 | Articles, DataPoint
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 21, 2015 | DataPoint, How-To
What are Snapshot Presentations? A DataPoint-enabled presentation is a normal PowerPoint presentation that is linked to data sources via the DataPoint add-on. First you set up your data connections and then you start linking these data connections to text boxes,...
Dec 10, 2015 | DataPoint
Introduction DataPoint is our PowerPoint add-on to display real-time information on your slides. There are 4 different editions of DataPoint; Standard edition Enterprise edition Viewer edition Runtime edition Definitions First we need to clarify some words here,...
Nov 24, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint
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 19, 2015 | DataPoint
DataPoint users report that sometimes information of an Excel file is not showing at full length or that text data is truncated or cut off. When we have a closer look at this problem, we always see that the first 255 characters of the Excel cell are read into the...
Oct 20, 2015 | DataPoint, How-To
Today we will demonstrate a special feature of our DataPoint Enterprise edition. You need to know that with the DataPoint Standard edition, you can link to excel worksheets and databases already, to display data in real-time and to generate snapshot presentations. Now...
Oct 7, 2015 | DataPoint, How-To
Advantages of using charts There are many reasons to use data driven charts to visualize information in a presentation or on an information screen. First of all, charts are easy to read. Charts are visually appealing, compared to e.g. a text box or table. Easy...
Sep 30, 2015 | DataPoint, 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...
Aug 12, 2015 | DataPoint, How-To
Earlier this week a blog article was published on dynamic greetings in PowerPoint. Now we will go further on that with dynamic and real-time time-restricted information. An information screen is showing much more than just a greeting like “Good Afternoon”....
Aug 11, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint
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...
Aug 7, 2015 | DataPoint
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...
Jun 30, 2015 | Articles, DataPoint
MySQL is a free and frequently used database system and is often used for websites or other internet driven databases and applications. The system will show how the user can use DataPoint to connect a PowerPoint presentation to a MySQL database in order to display...
Jun 25, 2015 | DataPoint
We had a request from a customer who wanted to display weather information from Wunderground. It provides weather information in the form of XML. That is not a problem for DataPoint but he wanted to display information of the observation table and that table has an...
Jun 10, 2015 | DataPoint, How-To
PowerPoint to create personalized documents PowerPoint is a perfect tool to create personalized presentations or documents. The user can create multiple pages and add high-quality shapes and charts to the slides. PowerPoint does this work much better than compared to...
