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Netpresenter is world's leading corporate internal communications software suite. Its easy-to-use software allows organizations to instantly newscast targeted news headlines to employees, strengthening the Intranet and reducing the internal email newsletters/memo's strain. News can be selectively displayed as network-friendly media-rich presentations on PCs as Screensaver, emergency Pop-up Player, as Intranet page or on Digital Signage TV/LCD/Plasma screens. With over 1 Million active users globally at organizations such as NATO, Unilever, Philips, Sony, Sara Lee, Ford, GE and many more, Netpresenter, founded in 1995, has set the standard.

It dramatically improve the speed and quality of internal / external marketing and branding initiatives. Forces your most important news to be seen on all your PCs and TVs in just minutes, without any effort by your staff or customers. Popularizes your Intranet and WEB site and realize the benefits and savings you planned. Provides Intranet kiosk access for all, even those without their own PC. Motivate your employees and enthuse your clients with fast, clear messages and images. Encourages far quicker adoption of change, by making it easier for your staff to understand the reasons and benefits. Provides a pro-active secure vehicle to promote employee /customer feedback into quality, efficiency and productivity initiatives. Quickly dissolve any "Chinese Whispers" spreading through your organization. Makes communication complaints a thing of the past!

By ensuring that ALL your staff will see your information automatically within minutes. Unlike Email, or even an Intranet, Netpresenter is proactive, informing staff automatically without disturbing them. For example using the Netpresenter Screensaver Player, which as an added benefit, keeps repeating your message so you can be sure your staff remembers it.

An Intranet, although a powerful asset for any modern cooperation, is not the one-size-fits-all wonder cure for all your internal communications. In fact, many users are having a hard time finding information on an Intranet. Netpresenter not only automatically inform users about the latest news within your organization, but also allows users to click on hyperlinks to jump to your Intranet with one click. Netpresenter complements and strengthens your Intranet with a powerful front-end that popularizes your Intranet in an easy, straightforward way. Additionally, Netpresenter can be connected to existing Intranet Content Management systems, so content is entered just once, but published twice, to both Intranet and Netpresenter, thus saving valuable time.

The Netpresenter Player and Screensaver use a local directory to store information. This self-cleaning cache directory is used to play information so no network connections are needed when the Player or Screensaver is running. Even when the server is offline (or not reachable e.g. notebook) the Player and Screensaver continue to play. Netpresenter regularly polls a server location for news. Only if new content is available on the server will Netpresenter download it (so called scheduled pull). This update creates a network load that is equal to a "one-page" web view (20-30Kb). Netpresenter will intelligently detect whether the whole presentation has changed or just elements. If only text changes and no images are added or changed, the update load is less than 10 KB, because only the script file needs to be downloaded.

Netpresenter Players are developed for continues usage (24/365), where bandwidth and CPU time is precious. They were designed to operate on global heavily loaded business networks and run without problems even the most stressed-out corporate PCs. A typical client installation (without the Editor) will require approximately 1 MB of disk space. This makes Netpresenter an ideal "Thin Client" solution, which can even runs CPU/Network critical Citrix servers. The Netpresenter Player and Screensaver use a local directory to store information. This self-cleaning cache directory is used to play information so no network connections are needed when the Player or Screensaver is running. Even when the server is offline (or not reachable e.g. notebook) the Player and Screensaver continue to play. Netpresenter regularly polls a server location for news. Only if new content is available on the server will Netpresenter download it (so called scheduled pull). This update creates a network load that is equal to a "one-page" web view (20-30Kb). Netpresenter will intelligently detect whether the whole presentation has changed or just elements. If only text changes and no images are added or changed, the update load is less than 10 KB, because only the script file needs to be downloaded.

Yes, All Netpresenter Players support FTP and HTTP (internet and Intranet) as well as file sharing.

Minimal system requirements (no multimedia)

- Windows 2000/XP/XP Embedded/Vista/7

- Intel Pentium II or AMD Athlon (or similar)

- 128 MB RAM

- 10 Mbps NIC

- 20 MB free HD space (depends on the size of the presentation)

- Integrated Video Card

 

Recommended system requirements

- Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP (or similar)

- 256 MB RAM

- 10/100 Mbps NIC

- 250 MB free HD space (depends on the size of the presentation)

- 32 MB Video Card

 

Highend system requirements (Flash, Ticker, HD movies)

- Windows XP/Vista/7

- Intel Core Duo (or similar)

- 1 GB RAM

- 100/1000 Mbps NIC

- 1 GB free HD space (depends on the size of the presentation)

- 128 MB Video Card

- Flash Player 10

Any network (including FTP/HTTP Internet/Intranet) and networks server that work under Windows clients will work. Servers include for example NT servers, Novell, Unix/Linux, Novell, Vines, Apple and others. Netpresenter does not need dedicated servers or special server programs.

Netpresenter was designed to limit network bandwidth stress to an absolute minimum. Typically it uses less than 50Kb per PC per day (or surfing less than 1 webpage per PC per day) because downloaded channels are stored locally. This results in a daily network load so small that it is hardly measurable.

The Netpresenter client software is very compact (350Kb) and does not require or use any additional DLL's nor any other third party players. The Netpresenter Network Installer is an msi package (the newest Microsoft Windows installer technology), which ensures automates installations on Client systems. Roll out to large groups of client systems can be done using group policies, remote launch (Microsoft SMS or other remote management programs), by starting an executable on the network (login-script or batch-file) or by manually branching to an executable from an email or hyperlink.

Netpresenter presentations (channels) can be nested. This means that for example local (language) sites can have their local presentations in their local language or with local news, while still receiving the corporate presentations. Netpresenter calls a nested presentation a Sub-channel and it is a standard feature of all Netpresenter software.

Screensavers are highly effective communication tools and they're low cost! You could easily equip a whole office of 300 Desktops with the Netpresenter Screensaver for the price of one (1) Plasma wide screen TV. What's more, Netpresenter Screensavers are interactive and can feature hyperlinks that bring users to your favorite (Intranet) website with just one click. Presentations are automatically displayed without actually interrupting/disturbing the user. Studies show that on average at any time the Screensaver is visible on more than half (60%) of all PCs (with Screensaver timeout set at 20 minutes). Now instead of just one (Plasma TV) screen displaying news, you'll have at any time active 180 displays! Rest assure there is safety in numbers.

The Netpresenter (Pop-up) Player remains passive, unless its triggered by a Pop-up signal from the Editor or Message Server. While the Netpresenter Screensaver Player is a highly effective way of actively distributing the latest corporate headlines, sometimes when every minute counts, you want to be able to instantly alert users, whatever they are doing. For this purpose Netpresenter has equipped its Desktop Player with an emergency Pop-up facility.

Yes, Netpresenter Players can monitor, update and display web cam images, stock quotes, weather charts and text (for example Intranet headlines) from the Internet or corporate network.

Yes you can. Netpresenter is the only program that allows playback on TV screens, using Netpresenter TV Players, as well as on Desktops PC's using Screensaver and Desktop (Pop-up) Player. Additionally Kiosks are also supported.

You DO NOT require any training for using the Netpresenter Screensaver or Desktop (Pop-up) Player. If you enter information into Netpresenter using the Netpresenter Message Server or Alert Server, you probably won't need any training. For creating Netpresenter presentations with the Editor, a short training is advised.

Yes you can. Either by using the Netpresenter Message Server which generates both Netpresenter presentations as well as Intranet pages. Or by coupling your existing Intranet content management system to Netpresenter so you enter news for Netpresenter and Intranet in your central database using the Media Server.

None on the internal corporate communications market. Its not easy to build robust thin client ''polite push'' low-bandwidth scalable applications for continues usage on every imaginable corporate network and with near-zero network administration costs. Corporate customers frequently have more than 20,000 Netpresenter Players continuously running at the same time without any noticeable effects on their global network. Netpresenter not only runs on Desktops as Screensaver and Desktop (Pop-up) Player but also features a TV/Plasma/Kiosk Player.

Yes, Netpresenter Players support the Microsoft MediaPlayer and can playback multimedia files such as Mpeg I/II *(DVD quality), Avi, Quicktime and Wav either in a window or full screen. *Mpeg II (DVD) Playback requires the PC to have an Mpeg II Player or codec installed.

So called push programs are nothing more than simple viewers with a selection of (fixed) content and (unwanted) advertising. Typically they only display on large, expensive screens and need a lot of network and computer resources making them expensive to implement. Netpresenter offers an integrated communication solution that allows the user to not only create, but also distribute and automatically display their OWN information without unwanted advertising while only using marginally amounts of network and computer resources.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a frequently used presentation program. It's designed for on-stage presentations and for presentations in a meeting environment. It was never designed to distribute it's presentations automatically over networks to potentially thousands of PC's. It does not have an appropriate Player that would prevent network bandwidth clogging of it's usually large files. It does not have playback tools that automatically detects the latest presentation on a server and only downloads the updated information. Nor does it feature network administrations tools to do so. There is no PowerPoint server that would take care of selective distribution. However, the Netpresenter Powerpoint Publisher can transform your PowerPoint presentation into a Netpresenter Channel.

AMBER Alert is the nationwide alert system for urgent cases of missing children and child abductions. This system enables the police to immediately warn the Netherlands nationwide in the case of a missing or abducted child by means of PC and television screens, websites, the iPhone/iPad app, email, text messages, Twitter, television and radio, highly increasing the chances of a positive outcome.

Frank Hoen, CEO of communication software specialist Netpresenter and Carlo Schippers of the National Bureau for Missing Persons (LBVP), part of the Netherlands Police Agency, initiated AMBER Alert Netherlands. Netpresenter has developed the AMBER Alert system and provided it free of charge to the Dutch police.

More information can be found on the AMBER Alert Netherlands website.

- Windows Server (2000‐2003‐2008) with IIS

- CPU: Intel Xeon 5110 or better

- RAM: minimum 2 GB

- HD: minimum 20 GB free

- A fast network connection

- Message Server web interface: Internet Explorer 8 or similar

 

Netpresenter Message Server/Media Server does not require a dedicated server nor special server software. It can store presentations on any existing server (e.g. Window, Novell, Linux/Unix, Apple) using HTTP (web), FTP or UNC/Drive letter (file-sharing) protocols.

- Windows Server (2000‐2003‐2008) with .NET Framework 2.0
- CPU: Intel Xeon 5110 or better
- RAM: minimum 2 GB
- HD: minimum 20 GB free disk space
- A fast network connection

 

Netpresenter Message Server/Media Server does not require a dedicated server nor special server software. It can store presentations on any existing server (e.g. Window, Novell, Linux/Unix, Apple) using HTTP (web), FTP or UNC/Drive letter (file-sharing) protocols.

Videos can't be uploaded through the Netpresenter Message Server interface. Videos needs to be placed directly on the server in the video folder. (default location: C:\Program Files\NpMsgServer\data\videos\common) In the videos folder there is a ‘common’ folder to upload videos that can be used in all Message Server sites. If you want to use a video in a specific site only, you can create a folder with the ID of the site and copy the video to that folder.

Probably the client PC doesn't have the Adobe Flash Player installed.