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DataPoint is the PowerPoint add-on to display real-time information on your information screens. What more do you need? You can display information in real-time. Change the information on a second computer, and the data is updated on your screen.
Want more attention? Set a notification sound when the data changes. Play a ping when a train is approaching the platform. Want even more attention? Just say that the train is arriving on platform 4. With DataPoint, you can now choose a voice (male or female) and use text-to-speech functionality to announce data changes.
When a data change is triggered, you can say a static sentence like ‘Be careful, a train is approaching’. This will be said whenever an arriving train is triggered by our train database.
But you can go further! You can use a variable in a sentence. E.g. when the train to Miami is arriving shortly, then you can say ‘The train to [destination] is arriving shortly at this platform’ where the variable [destination] is coming from your database. The spoken text on your public address system (PA system) will sound like ‘The train to Miami is arriving shortly at this platform’.
Recently a customer claimed that productivity has increased by 25% since the installation of real-time information screens with KPI information and others. Now, the PowerPoint slide show empowered by DataPoint, is giving clear text-to-speech instructions whenever a new command or assignment arrives. The big advantage is that people do not have to stare at the screens anymore for an update. The dynamic text-to-speech functionality is helping them to get attention at the moment of the update.
Kurt Dupont, based out of Belgium heads PresentationPoint, a company that creates several amazing PowerPoint add-ins. After his Computer Science studies, Kurt started with Andersen Consulting (Accenture nowadays) in Brussels. After 3 years he moved to the Brussels Airport Terminal Company that runs the Brussels airport – this last placement inspired the start-up of Take-off (now known as PresentationPoint) in 1998.
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