The idea is for everyone to be able to mirror their full screen or a single window for the rest of the group to see. This way, innovation can grow when we discuss, challenge, and learn from each other’s ideas.

In the spirit of inclusion, here’s an example of an interactive display, the Samsung Flip, that offers a world of innovative potential (especially when used together with Airtame).

What is a Samsung Flip?

The Samsung Flip is a screen that doubles as both a TV and an interactive whiteboard (and blackboard), available in 55 and 65 inches. As the name suggests, the display can rotate – “flip” – 90 degrees between landscape and portrait mode. The Flip can be mounted to the wall or moved around on a height-adjustable stand that includes an integrated shelf and lockable wheels.

Users can create and scroll back and forth through digital flip charts that include presentation points, images, and sketches. This lets everyone go through each other’s work and offer feedback while simultaneously brainstorming ideas. Up to four people at a time can draw, write, and highlight with ease using the included Samsung Passive Pen, and simply erase with a swipe of the hand on the screen.

This solution is great for both educational and professional settings due to its interactive design. In the classroom, teachers and students can work together to revise written assignments and mathematical solutions. They can sketch out graphs and charts or even create artwork. At work, teams of designers, architects, and engineers can jointly develop floor plans, wireframes, and other types of product mockups.

Key features

• 4K resolution, 178-degree viewing angles (vertical and horizontal), and 8ms pixel response time
• Flexible installation options, with the choice between a stand or a wall mount
• Pen and brush mode, with a magnetic pen holder
• Versatile colors, styles, and widths for Notation

• Intuitive “Import” and “Export” options for documentation
• Integrated stereo speakers

• Built-in web browser
• Pin code protection

Why pair a Samsung Flip with Airtame?

There are two key benefits of this paring: bring-your-own-device screen sharing and digital signage.

Let’s talk about screen sharing first.

In order for devices to connect and present wirelessly, the Samsung Flip supports NFC tagged. This function is supported only on Android 8.0 Oreo and later versions of Samsung mobile devices. While this is great for some Android users, it doesn’t cover a big group—people using Windows, Chromebook, Linux, macOS, or iOS devices.

Fortunately, Airtame comes to the rescue. With a device connected to the Flip’s HDMI port, Airtame brings cross-platform support (Powered by ) with native AirPlay, Google Cast, and Miracast (including touchback). AirPlay is the built-in screen sharing protocol available on your MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads. Google Cast is available with the Chrome browser, as well as many Android devices. Miracast is also supported on a variety of Android devices, as well as on Windows laptops. In addition to the “big three” screen sharing protocols, Airtame also has a desktop app for Windows, macOS, Chromebook, and Linux, that lets you share the same content from your laptop to multiple Airtame-equipped displays simultaneously.

And what about digital signage?

Airtame Cloud is an online platform that lets you manage all Airtame-equipped displays from anywhere. In addition to configuring and updating, the Cloud also gives you access to a variety of digital signage. While a Flip comes with the option to set an image as a screen saver, Airtame Cloud Lite (which is free) gives you the option of also displaying a public URL. What’s more, Cloud Lite gives you access to remote device management. Depending on your signage needs, you might want to opt for Airtame Cloud Plus, a paid plan that comes with signage apps such as Google Slides, YouTube, OneDrive, Dropbox, World Clock, Room Overview, and more. You can plan apps to be displayed on a loop or according to a schedule. 

A perfect match

In separation, both the Samsung Flip and Airtame are best-in-class AV solutions. Brought together, they truly unlock the future of better collaboration at work and in school. Consider them as an investment in productivity.

Interested in combining your Samsung Flip and Airtame? Fill out the form below and we’ll help you get started.

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Not only does artwork have the ability to impress your customers, clients or office guests, it can increase employee morale by creating a positive and efficient atmosphere. A splash of color or abstract art can inspire your entire organization to be at its best.

Research by Psychology professors Dr. Craig Knight and Dr. S Alexander Haslam proves a direct link between the working environment and levels of well-being, professional satisfaction and productivity. An experiment studying the effect of the office environment on staff productivity saw a group of employees perform an hour’s worth of administrative tasks in an office without visual stimulation and another do so in an ‘enriched’ office space decorated with art and plants.

In an office with art, employees worked approximately 15% faster than those in the lean office.

A survey confirms the results conducted by the Business Committee for the Arts and the International Association of Professional Art Advisors of more than 800 employees of 32 companies that displayed art in the workplace, 94% of respondents agreed that art enhanced the work environment; 78% said that it contributed to reduced stress; 64% saw increased creativity and productivity, and 67% said that it enhanced morale. These statistics demonstrate the potential return on investment concerning corporate art and visual design.

Art in the office doesn’t have to be costly

Not every company has a dedicated art budget to invest in museum-quality pieces. The good news is there are alternative ideas and new technologies supporting cost-effective art that smart companies are using to enhance office spaces such as ArtPlayer.

ArtPlayer is a TV streaming and digital signage art service that decorates and creates ambiance, which makes it ideal for workplaces. It works on PC, tablet or mobile, but can easily be integrated into your own info screen and digital signage system as a screen feed.

ArtPlayer displays world famous high-resolution art and nature images accompanied by pleasant background music based on your selected settings. Inspired by Bill Gates, who already in the early 1990s displayed art on framed and wall-mounted PC screens at his mansion, ArtPlayer was launched as a contrast to traditional digital signage.

Putting a spotlight on the world’s most famous painters

ArtPlayer includes the most famous works from all the great art movements: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Realism, Abstract Art & Cubism, Modern Art. Big star works are presented from the likes of Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Klimt, Gauguin, Munch and many more, all in resplendent 4K UHD.

ArtPlayer can display artworks and nature pictures based on your selected mood setting: Happy, Sad, Calm, Excited, Awed, Disgusted, Angry or Afraid. The mood selection is done using image recognition technology based on artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms analyzing brightness, contrast, edges, color, texture, layout, shape etc.

Best of all? If you have an Airtame installed in your workplace, you can use ArtPlayer’s URL to automatically display beautiful art when you’re not actively streaming to your screens. Simply copy your unique ArtPlayer URL, and paste it in as the Homescreen background on your Airtame device settings.

Eager to get started? Try ArtPlayer for free on artplayer.com, and reach out to their main man, Morten Kryger, if you are eager to learn more about their fantastic custom solution.

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How many people have opened your email? How many sales did your team bring in? And most importantly, how much time do you spend creating spreadsheets and getting buried in reports? Wouldn’t it be easier if there was a way to display your data so that you know exactly what’s going on in your business at all times?

What is a dashboard?

The go-to solution you are looking for is dashboards. A tool that cuts through data clutter and helps you get down to what really matters. But more concretely, what is a dashboard?

Founder of Perceptual Edge, Stephen Few describes dashboards as a visual display of your business’ data that is essential to achieve your goals. This data is consolidated and showcased on a single screen so that it can be tracked and monitored at a glance. Truly helpful is the fact that the data is automatically updating itself without any assistance from the user. With the right dashboard, you can experience the satisfaction of leading your business to success.

I know what you’re thinking: so, how do I spot the right dashboard?

As the Partnerships Manager at Airtame, I’ve spent months researching dashboards that work with Airtame.

Provided that these dashboards have a shareable public link, you can copy-paste it into your Airtame’s settings, and your dashboard will display on the screen. Once your dashboard is up on a large screen, it becomes a wallboard, a term you might have heard before but never really knew what it was. The main benefit of wallboards is that they are highly visible and easy to understand for everyone around them.

Here I found not one but 27 dashboard services, that will easily help you showcase your company’s indispensable data on any office screen. To make your life easier, I’ve split them into Executive Dashboards and Social Walls, according to their focus.

Executive Dashboards

If what you’re looking for is the classic KPI dashboard that helps you keep track of your business performance, then Executive Dashboards are for you. This includes your accounting software data, your CRM, website analytics, or email system data for a broader perspective. Here are some recommendations:

Klipfolio

Used by more than 11,000 companies, and integrating data from Dropbox, Marketo, Moz, and so forth, our partner, Klipfolio makes sure that your web analytics, sales and finances, and project management goals are transparent throughout your company. I personally have a screen dedicated to Klipfolio dashboards in front of my desk and it really makes my life easier.

Cyfe

An all-in-one business dashboard app, Cyfe’s goal is to help you make better business decisions by bringing all of your business performance data under one roof. However, to benefit from its full potential, you would have to sign up for a Premium account.

Curious to hear more? Check their tutorial.

Plecto

With varied integrations, such as Zendesk, Pipedrive, Podio, leaderboards, and custom recognition features, Plecto will drive your team’s motivation sky high. If sales are your main focus, Plecto is what you’re looking for. Also, I must say the pricing plan is quite eye-catching.

Want to check all of their features? Click here.

Datapine

Small, medium, large companies – it doesn’t matter. Datapine can provide you with accurate KPIs in the most professional way, be it management, finance, sales, or marketing-related. Plus, I really enjoyed their customer support. For example, booking a demo and understanding their product took no time at all.

Click here for a tutorial teaser of how it works.

Axosoft

Monitor your workflow, connect to an ever-growing list of tools and services, and make sure that all relevant stakeholders in your projects get the essential details with Axosoft. I would also add that these dashboards load very fast, so you won’t have to worry about delays in your content.

Tableau Public

By connecting and visualizing your data in a matter of minutes, Tableau Public can make you forget about the old-school spreadsheets and reports that used to clutter your life.

I like the fact that Tableau has a broad service offering. Also, they are pretty active in terms of social events. So if you have any doubts, you can always check if they’re holding an event in your neighborhood.

Want more insights on how to use it? Click here for some guidelines.

Cervinoboard

Integrating Facebook, MailChimp, Google Analytics and Adwords, and many more, Cervinoboard focuses on online marketing agencies. They deliver smart services that save a lot of time for agencies that wish to deploy and maintain large amounts of dashboards. A few newer services are still in beta, but this is a young startup to watch.

Dundas

A business solution that is able to monitor data from a wide range of industries. From banking and finance, education, government to pharmaceutical transport and logistics, retail, and so on. With more than 20 years of experience on the market, Dundas has dedicated over 7 of them to their dashboard project development.

However, if you want to explore their service offering, you should definitely consider signing up for a Premium account. If this sounds like a deal, get started with a free trial!

Zoho

Boosting your sales, managing daily activities, or stepping up your productivity game – Zoho has helped business professionals take care of all these for more than a decade. If I were looking for a very complex software provider, I would most likely choose Zoho.

Want to get a better sense of your data? Watch this video!

DashThis

Be it SEO, SEM, PPC, or social media, DashThis has got your back. It automatically gathers all your client data into one dashboard report.

If you are a digital agency, DashThis dashboards might be just what you’re looking for. But feel free to check their demo videos here.

AppInsights

Lets you easily combine the data your team needs and has customizable dashboards. What else is there? Oh, yes, the fact that it can be tailored to nearly every market from digital agencies to server admins and sales teams. Quite a tool for startups, I’d say.

Plotly

Incredibly user-friendly features and very intuitive dashboards. Not to mention the sharp design of their live graphs. Sometimes, it can take a while to load, but it’s worth the wait. The pricing plan: really appealing.

Learn more on how to use Plotly by clicking here.

SimpleKPI

The name says it all because SimpleKPI is just that – simple. And when it comes to monitoring your business reports, that’s what you want. The visuals are nicely put together and easy to understand.

Databox

Databox has a clever drag-and-drop editor that makes data visualization a breeze. It has a ton of integration options so you can connect all data sources, no matter where you want your information to come from.

Sisense

This AI-driven analytics platform offers ready-to-use business intelligence dashboard reports for a wide variety of industries. You can experiment with sample KPIs, data sources, and visualizations for topics such as social responsibility, education, SaaS, and more.

See all their options as well as dashboard examples here.

Screenful

Screenful is the easiest way to visualize and share your project progress using data from your existing tools. It integrates with the most commonly used tasks management tools such as Jira, Trello, Asana, GitHub, and Asana.

The visual dashboards allow tracking key production metrics such as lead and cycle times and help detect any project bottlenecks.

Grow

Many services can’t offer a swift implementation but take months to get your solution up and running. Grow claims they implement 8x faster than competitors, meaning you don’t have to wait to get started with analyzing data. You can create role-specific KPI dashboards for an unlimited amount of team members, which is also a nice feature.

Geckoboard

Sometimes, one dashboard just isn’t enough. That’s why Geckoboards lets you display several different dashboards on the same screen. You can even add your own logo for a customized look and feel that matches your brand.

Target Dashboard

You can automatically merge data with this service. That makes it easy for you to get an overview of all metrics, goals, and KPIs without having to worry about the time spent trying to do it yourself. Target Dashboard includes support in their pricing plan, and that’s something we applaud. Bills can pile up when problems arise if support isn’t included, so that’s definitely something to look for when choosing a dashboard service.

Octoboard

With Octoboard, you can create public dashboards for easy sharing with other teams or clients. Octoboard also offers activity monitoring for brands and bloggers on social platforms. For those out there that want to glance at competitors while simultaneously looking at their own engagement, this is superb. That’s why I’ve put it as the last in the executive dashboard section because it would fit just as well in the next section; social walls.

Social Walls

Presumably, you want to track your social media lifespan or organize a kick-ass event. Social walls can help you stay on the pulse of your social media community – both in the office and at the conference center. These are some suggestions that caught my eye.

SocialWall Pro

SocialWall Pro provides social walls to reach, engage, and connect live audiences at events, meetings, conferences, brand activations, and online.

It’s a fully stacked solution, supporting all major social media channels, plus SMS, emails, and web messages. You can also use cool added features, like a gamification tool, sponsorship presentation, and performance analytics. 

Strea.ma

Want to keep track of your social media activity for a certain event or conference? With so many platforms out there, why not bring all of them into one easy-to-use display so that everyone can see your tailored stream of content unfolding in real-time? Start with a free trial and then you can decide among Plus, Premium, or customized plans.

Juicer

Meet Juicer, a social media aggregator that sets your filters up, moderates your posts, and analyzes your social media engagement. What’s more, Juicer has 18 integrations and a modest pricing plan.

Worth giving a try!

Walls.io

Unleashing your hashtags and building your social wall with data integrated from over 15 platforms is a no-brainer if you go with Walls.io. Keep your audience updated with Walls.io’s customizable next-generation social wall and your next event is sure to be a success.

Basic no-frills dashboards

Suppose you are only looking to create and share your slide decks. Or maybe you want to focus on showcasing your data through charts. Here are some no-frills options that work great:

Slides

Slides allows you to create and share great complex presentations online, in your very own browser without the need to download anything. See for yourself by clicking here.

Project Manager

On the hunt for real-time dashboards for your business? With Project Manager, you can combine powerful project planning and scheduling features with collaboration tools for teams, plan waterfall projects, and adjust due dates. Project Manager takes project planning to a whole new level, I must say.

Datawrapper

Into maps & charts? Then Datawrapper is the optimum solution for you. Back up your presentation with this great visualization tool and you might just get some applause by the end of it.

What’s your favorite dashboard? Who should I look into next on my hunt for great dashboards you can use with Airtame? Let us know in the comments!

Curious about what we do? Here’s a short video explaining how Airtame works:

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Highlights:

• New apps: We’re introducing the first few apps. Cross-team collaboration with Trello, awe-inspiring photography from Unsplash for daily inspiration, integrated clocks for seamless teamwork, Google Slides to improve display of information, OneDrive and Dropbox for displaying image galleries, and Homescreen app, a sneak peek of our newly redesigned Homescreen.

• All in public beta: There’s no out-of-pocket expense with the launch of these apps. Homescreen is still in public beta, meaning you can try them out and take full advantage of their benefits.

• Your first step into digital signage: We’re working on more awesome things at the moment, all leading towards unlocking the power of digital signage. These apps are just the first baby beta steps, so stay tuned for more updates
• Download the new 3.2.3 firmware and get started!

Digital signage is popping up in more and more places, and with these four apps, you’ll be able to see the magic too. Digital signage means centrally controlled, customized content distribution to one or more screens. Turn blank screens into eye-catching, relevant content sharing surfaces right away. Start communication with customers, students, employees or visitors.

Sharing the right information at the right time can be a challenge – unless you have the right tools. With the right tools, you’ll be able to share calendars, notify staff about events, the lunch menu, upcoming visitors, birthdays or display mind-blowing photography to captivate passer-bys.

Schools, hospitals, banks, corporate offices and many more organizations are all looking for a simple and effective way to share information with their audiences. With a seamless experience, employee morale is boosted and productivity increases.

With our latest additions to the Airtame Cloud and firmware version 3.2.3, we’re pleased to now offer a smarter and more effective way of utilizing digital screens. Through Airtame’s Homescreen product, users will now be able to use Trello, Unsplash, World Clock, and Google Slides as the first few apps of many.

Our new apps

Trello

Trello is a web-based project management tool. It provides a platform for planning and organizing projects, and it’s a useful way to keep track of updates and ideas.

If you already use Trello in your workplace, you can now showcase the content on screens via Airtame. Set up sprint boards for your office space, shared to-do lists or weekly digests. You can choose what columns to show on each TV or let the board spread across multiple screens. It gives you a much better workflow, especially because you’re able to change the size of the text and how many details to show.

Unsplash

Unsplash provides beautiful, high quality, free images, and photos. Visual stimulation is proven to have significant, positive impact on your work environment, for increasing creativity, and serving as daily inspiration to both employees, clients, and visitors. In fact, in an office with art, employees worked approximately 15% faster than those in the lean office.

With our Unsplash app, you can set up amazing backgrounds for general inspiration, to celebrate, create good vibes or simply because it looks good. Set the mood with the right images and use your screens to the fullest when you’re not streaming to them.

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World Clock

Keeping track of time is essential for any organization, especially if you have colleagues or customers in different time zones. With our World Clock app, you can set up to 3 clocks to stay in tune with the time in the timezones of your teams and clients.

Google Slides

Google Slides lets you create and edit amazing online presentations, for free. It lets you work effortlessly with other people since more than one person can access the presentation at the same time and make changes. But there are several other ways to use Google Slides. Format a slide show to present an updated calendar, the agenda of today’s meeting or a rotation of fun pictures.

Digital signage with Google Slides offers a lot of benefits for your organization. Welcome your clients, share company calendars, set up dashboards or even use it for displaying the lunch menu. Slides are updated automatically when edits have been made.

Airtame’s Google Slides app within Homescreen makes picking and changing presentations easier than ever. You’ll be sure to find many exciting use cases that turn your screen into an easy digital signage solution.

Homescreen

The new Homescreen app lets you preview our completely redesigned Homescreen.

Not only does it have a sleek new look and feel, the Homescreen app also has new functionalities. Use the conveniently placed clock to keep track of time. Or sync your meeting room calendar so you know at a glance if the room has been booked or not.

Dropbox Gallery 

Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud storage services for business and personal use. It is a central place to store and share files with your teams. 

With Dropbox Gallery, select a whole gallery of images from a Dropbox folder, and make them stand out with our styling options.

OneDrive Gallery

OneDrive is another popular cloud storage service for business and personal use. As a part of Microsoft’s Office 365 suite, it is a favorite among enterprise-level companies.

With OneDrive Gallery, select any OneDrive folder to display a gallery of images. It’s that easy.

Free to use in public beta

Homescreen will continue to be in public beta and unpaid at the moment, giving you the opportunity to explore these apps in their raw form without having to pay a dime. Our goal is to unleash the magic that professional screens hold, and to help you get accustomed to the power of digital signage. Besides Trello, Unsplash, World Clock, Google Slides, Dropbox Gallery, OneDrive Gallery and Homescreen Preview, we also have Website and Image listed as apps. With them, you can showcase simple websites and custom background images. You might want to use it to show a static site, dashboard or wallpaper.

A step into the future

We recently won a substantial grant from the European Union, which will go towards developing an open integration platform for professional displays. That means we’ll be launching many more apps in the foreseeable future, so stay tuned for more product updates.

We also want to hear what apps you think we should build next. Find out more info right about the technical setup.

It could be a platform you’re already using at work that you want to see integrated to your screen automatically. Or it could be a “so-crazy-it-might-work” partnership that would change the way your workforce use and think about screens. Let us know here.

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