PowerChart Overview
Quickly and simply produce professional charts with 100% accuracy
PowerChart is a software package that automates the process of producing charts in PowerPoint, from extracting data and getting it into PowerPoint through to formatting the final chart.
Typically users creating an analysis would hop between Excel and PowerPoint, copying data into a chart and then formatting the descriptions, colours and axes. Once a few charts have been created then these can be used as templates, however the user still has to ensure that colours and descriptions are consistent and axes are labelled correctly. The process is fairly labour intensive and likely to introduce errors.
PowerChart sits between a data source and PowerPoint and automates the whole process. With PowerChart the user defines a chart using a simple user interface. After that, PowerChart takes over, extracts the data straight into PowerPoint and produces a fully formatted chart in a matter of seconds.
PowerChart is designed to be user-friendly, but at the same time powerful and flexible enough to produce complex charts using multiple axes, different chart types and linking in different data sources.
Who Would Benefit From PowerChart?
Typical users of PowerChart come from any department that uses continuous market tracking data: market research, category management, marketing and sales. In short, anyone that creates data based analyses / presentations using IRI, TNS or AC Nielsen data.
Is PowerChart right for your business?
If you don't receive any databases from your agencies and no-one in your company produces any charts then PowerChart will not be of help. A good benchmark is whether you purchase agency specific software (e.g. OSA, Nitro) to do ad hoc analyses. If you do then the chances are that PowerChart could help you.