global access

Demonstrate from inside the presentation
SML Gresham Reactor simulation
Our project for HSBC Merchant Services went live recently. It demonstrates their best-of-breed on-line management information system.

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global currency

Remote updates and presentation logging
Sunterra World Map Sunterra needed to present consistently right across its global sales base. With thousands of holiday properties, all of which were being constantly refurbished and developed...

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working the numbers

Can you see this at the back?
Figures on a blackboardNumbers can be a great persuader. If you want to make a pitch based on extra profit or cost savings, it's great to be able to prove your point.

But nobody likes squinting at an Excel spreadsheet.

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The Small Print

can you see this at the back?

Election Night graphicsWhere would election night TV be without the graphs and numbers?

But would you expect to see an Excel spreadsheet on Election Special? It's not easy to visualise Paxman apologising for accidentally deleting that formula. And BBC charts swoop around, they don't just sit there showing you their pixellated edges.

They've moved on from Peter Sissons and his Swingometer.

So should you.

let's play with the numbers

Financial model

Presented properly, figures can be a great way of getting the audience involved. For example, one of our clients had a great financial case to put to their customer. The only problem was that the results were so big, there was a danger their customer wouldn't believe they were possible.

So they started by telling the customer what they were setting to achieve, then used our system, not only to prove it, but to get their customer to buy in at each stage.
Financial model with approval The presentation contained over twenty detailed financial models that interlocked to produce the massive result that my client knew it could deliver. The customer was invited to experiment with the figures, and then to green-, amber- or red-light each initiative once they were happy.

At the end, the presentation system automatically assembled all the green-lighted components into an action plan.

The customer green-lighted everything

adding depth to your argument

Financial model

Our Configurative presentation system includes a real-time 3D rendering engine, so your graphs, pie charts and animations can really jump out of the screen. There's even a physics engine if you want to make things stretch, collide and bounce. It's a great way of bringing life to a numbers presentation, and can really help your audience to focus.

Financial model with approval

So you can zoom in on important facts, change and manipulate figures, do almost anything you want to get your point across.

What you can't do is accidentally delete your formulae, and everything is presented at the same quality as the rest of your pitch, not as tiny cells in a spreadsheet.

Presentation control panel

The system captures and stores your audeince's responses so that you can use the information when you come to make a detailed proposal or follow-up.

You can even store the feedback from separate sessions, so nothing gets forgotten if you do a series of presentations back-to-back.

When you come to leave behind a copy of your presentation, all the tweaks and changes you made while interacting with your customer are included, so there's an exact record of the conclusions you reached together. If you wish, you can make this leave-behind copy unalterable by the customer, or you can allow them to continue to experiment. Unlike an Excel-driven system, your customer can't see the working behind the numbers, so your confidential processes are kept safe. Daniel shows you how on the Configurative presentations page