Comments on: PowerPoint minus the laptop http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Review - Impatica Showmate | BlackBerry Cool http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-154198 Review - Impatica Showmate | BlackBerry Cool Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:32:29 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-154198 [...] saw this thing during WES and thought the idea was pretty cool, but $250 bucks for a PowerPoint brick seemed like a little [...] [...] saw this thing during WES and thought the idea was pretty cool, but $250 bucks for a PowerPoint brick seemed like a little [...]

]]> By: BlackberryBeard http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-130944 BlackberryBeard Mon, 14 May 2007 12:41:21 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-130944 Sergey, My point is that the target market for this product would seem to be corporations. I would think that an overwhelming majority of corporations use BES and then use that BES to push limiting policies to connected individuals' Blackberries. The very good intentioned purpose for restricting this and several other policies is so malware does not either infect the people's blackberry units, or worse use that unit as a gateway to compromise the larger network. Knowing that the target market is the one least likely to open this policy on the units should make them push the Desktop Manager alternative to the top of their priority queue, but somehow I was unable to sway their thinking that this was an extremely low priority item. Bottom line: If people cannot get the PowerPoint presentation onto the blackberry, they will never be able to show the presentation to anyone. If their target market is BIS users, then Impatica will work, but their potential number of clients is diminished. I wish Impatica the best of luck and really want them to succeed with this product. Sergey,

My point is that the target market for this product would seem to be corporations. I would think that an overwhelming majority of corporations use BES and then use that BES to push limiting policies to connected individuals’ Blackberries. The very good intentioned purpose for restricting this and several other policies is so malware does not either infect the people’s blackberry units, or worse use that unit as a gateway to compromise the larger network.

Knowing that the target market is the one least likely to open this policy on the units should make them push the Desktop Manager alternative to the top of their priority queue, but somehow I was unable to sway their thinking that this was an extremely low priority item.

Bottom line: If people cannot get the PowerPoint presentation onto the blackberry, they will never be able to show the presentation to anyone.

If their target market is BIS users, then Impatica will work, but their potential number of clients is diminished.

I wish Impatica the best of luck and really want them to succeed with this product.

]]> By: Sergey http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-130291 Sergey Sat, 12 May 2007 02:36:04 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-130291 Small correction - the main advantage of our partnership with Impatica is for BIS users. Impatica has a BES server already, but for individual users DynoPlex allows to download PPT files from emaill attachments or from online file storage without anything installed on the BES. Small correction - the main advantage of our partnership with Impatica is for BIS users. Impatica has a BES server already, but for individual users DynoPlex allows to download PPT files from emaill attachments or from online file storage without anything installed on the BES.

]]> By: BlackberryBeard http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-130135 BlackberryBeard Fri, 11 May 2007 15:08:07 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-130135 Having tested Impatica, the biggest issue with it--that I have discussed several times with them, is that for this to work they require a policy to be opened that most companies will not open. Specifically they require "'Allow Third Party Apps to Use Serial Port' set to TRUE" for USB access. This is documented at http://www.impatica.com/support/transferfaq-sm.html#4 as a known issue. Good luck trying to get your BES administrator to open this up. The other logical way to get PowerPoints on your Blackberry would be to use the Desktop Manager "Execute Add-in actions" feature. I have talked to Impatica several times about this. They have it on their honey-do list but it is so low as to not really exist. I feel its a very promising product that in my opinion is still in beta. Having tested Impatica, the biggest issue with it–that I have discussed several times with them, is that for this to work they require a policy to be opened that most companies will not open. Specifically they require “‘Allow Third Party Apps to Use Serial Port’ set to TRUE” for USB access. This is documented at http://www.impatica.com/support/transferfaq-sm.html#4 as a known issue. Good luck trying to get your BES administrator to open this up.

The other logical way to get PowerPoints on your Blackberry would be to use the Desktop Manager “Execute Add-in actions” feature. I have talked to Impatica several times about this. They have it on their honey-do list but it is so low as to not really exist.

I feel its a very promising product that in my opinion is still in beta.

]]> By: goneyukon http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-130129 goneyukon Fri, 11 May 2007 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-130129 ok, to clear up confusion... the coolness of impatica showmate is the actual box that you attach to the projector. the software itself for viewing PPT on the device isn't that great. i believe the $249 price tag is for the hardware mostly. ok, to clear up confusion…

the coolness of impatica showmate is the actual box that you attach to the projector. the software itself for viewing PPT on the device isn’t that great. i believe the $249 price tag is for the hardware mostly.

]]> By: Blackberry Cool http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-129919 Blackberry Cool Thu, 10 May 2007 20:25:50 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-129919 Correction's made, thanks for spotting that. As for the pricetag, I wouldn't pay that much either, but if I had a company willing to get it for me... Correction’s made, thanks for spotting that. As for the pricetag, I wouldn’t pay that much either, but if I had a company willing to get it for me…

]]> By: Opus2 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/powerpoint-minus-the-laptop/#comment-129905 Opus2 Thu, 10 May 2007 19:46:07 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/05/10/004420/#comment-129905 "Impacta won the CTIA Most Innovative Wireless Device award ...." It's Impatica, not Impacta. http://www.impatica.com/ And Most Innovative shouldn't be confused with most cost-effective. $250 for an add-on powerpoint widget? Dude, I didn't pay that much for my 8700! What's this company going to do when RIM supports powerpoint in the OS? (only a matter of time, I figure). Remember Fulcrum? Of course you don't. They developed and sold full-text search engines, till Microsoft included the same capability for free in Windows. Things that make you go hmmmmm...... “Impacta won the CTIA Most Innovative Wireless Device award ….”

It’s Impatica, not Impacta.
http://www.impatica.com/

And Most Innovative shouldn’t be confused with most cost-effective. $250 for an add-on powerpoint widget? Dude, I didn’t pay that much for my 8700!

What’s this company going to do when RIM supports powerpoint in the OS? (only a matter of time, I figure). Remember Fulcrum? Of course you don’t. They developed and sold full-text search engines, till Microsoft included the same capability for free in Windows.

Things that make you go hmmmmm……

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