Business Tip 21
How to Control Your Presentation with Global Selections

The Problem:

You have just created a great 25 slide presentation in PowerPoint -- including several data-driven slides -- and need to distribute the presentation to the entire sales force. Oh, one more requirement… everyone in the sales force needs to reflect their own customer’s data in the data-driven slides.

The Solution:

Global Selections!

With Global Selections, you can control the degree of customization that you want to allow end users to have and make it easy for them to rapidly “personalize” their presentations with their own customer’s data.

Global Selections can allow the presentation developer to:

• Tie all chart and table objects in the presentation to a single selection source for data dimensions such as geographies, time periods, measures and products

• Control the amount of presentation customization by turning off Global Selections to certain objects or specific measures

• Make it easy to quickly update all slides and insure continuity in the presentation

• Utilize standard presentations across the entire organization

Global selection is a simple process with software packages such as Interactive Edge’s XP3 Suite. Global selections can be set up for one or more data sources and the names can be standardized for each data selection to avoid confusion on the part of the end user. Packed up with a database, the presentation can be sent to everyone and each end user can choose the settings (i.e. measure, target geography, parent geography, etc.) to be displayed in the presentation.

The data, products and accounts depicted in this example are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual data, products or accounts is purely coincidental.