Kurt Dupont from PresentationPoint is a man of ideas. It is always interesting to see what he is going to do next. The wait is over, and Kurt’s new product is OutlookPoint, an add-in for Outlook that copies email messages, appointments, tasks, contact persons, and notes to a database. Then you can use their DataPoint product to display this info inside PowerPoint.
As Kurt explains, the purpose of this product is to use Outlook to maintain the messages/content on the screen instead of building a completely new database for this DataPoint application. You can choose what field (sender’s name, subject, body, received time, priority, etc.) to display in PowerPoint. Appointments can be used to display a message at the allocated time only (e.g. between 10:00 and 11:00). Another nice thing is that now you can send an email message directly to a monitor at work when you are on holiday. This could be done via Hotmail and your PDA and you just send over a message.

