So, what’s new with CommandCenterHD? Tons!!!
This is our largest release to date and we’ve included many of your feature requests for improved functionality and ease of use. We hope you’re as excited as we are and look forward to your feedback.
New Content Creation Options
Interactive Signage Made Easy (watch the video)
- Drag and drop interactive touch points within the slide editor connect your multi-media and campaigns to create more engaging, touch-based signage.
- Requires CCHD 4.3, 4400 DMP, and touch-enabled display.
- Click here to watch the video.
- Exports allow you to schedule and send a “channel” to a single or group of DMPs.
- Exports are completely self-contained.
- Schedule exports for specific times of the day, recurring or non-recurring schedules and even issue them immediately to the required digital media players.
- Ideal for network environments requiring nightly distribution, less frequent updates or the staging of a DMP without network connections (trade shows, etc).
- New, higher bit rate capabilities.
- Pro-user straight pass through option, no transcoding to your files.
- Adjust the opacity of your videos within the slide editor for increased creative options and playback control.
- Automatically create and schedule content based on data available via source (flight information, meeting information, news-in-pictures, etc).
- Length of campaign is dictated by the source.
- Choose from six different weather formats.
- Display options include current days’ high temperature and a 5 day forecast.
- Drag and drop placement on templates.
- Weather is cached on the DMP and updated every 15 minutes on IW servers.
- Available for FREE in The Marketplace.
- Allows you to click on a DMP of interest and view all of the assigned Campaigns and Globalcasts.
- Also allows you to determine whether or not the Campaigns and Globalcasts are currently active.
Administration and Troubleshooting Tools
Systems Diagnostics
- Managing the health of your digital signage network has never been easier.
- Dashboard-based reporting allows you to quickly identify issues.
- Advanced diagnostics tools allow you to pinpoint, troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Store content locally to minimize impact on digital signage campaign playback in the event of a power or network failure. No more blank screens.
- Local playback is also key to environments looking to reduce bandwidth consumption.
- If you are responsible for managing a group of staff members who assist in creating and scheduling your digital signage campaigns, this feature allows you to set the number of slides each campaign can contain.
- Define your primary contact for system updates and notifications.
- Option to run only HTTPS at login.
- Set password security strength requirements (very weak to very strong).
- Includes playback stats, slide-by-slide analytics, graph-based reporting, live campaign statistics.
- Summary reporting displays all campaigns played back to date, showing the top 10 campaigns played, the slides within each campaign, unique slides played, unique channels, unique devices, unique regions, and each campaign’s total runtime.
- Sort your summary reports by current day, week, month, quarter, year or all data.
- Sort or refine your results by any of all of the categories and by time zone.
- Ability to create customized reports.
- Custom reports allow you to view date by the current day, week, month, quarter, year, all or by a custom data range.
- Available for FREE in The Marketplace.
User Interface and Efficiency Enhancements
Redesigned Media Manager w/ Folder System
- Completely revamped to provide easier management and organization of your media assets.
- The new folder system allows you to separate and store media assets however you see fit.
- Media management options are now available from the main navigation menu to reduce mouse clicks.
- Combined with Cisco’s latest firmware release, CCHD 4.3 provides much faster transitions between your slides.
- One click access to your template manager from the slide editor to make on the fly adjustments quickly and easily.
- Jump from a Channel to a list of all the DMPs that Channel is assigned to or jump from a Channel to a specific Campaign.
- Need to find something quickly? No problem. All lists (media assets, templates, campaigns, channels, etc) are all searchable and include pagination to make locating your signage assets easier.
- Includes dramatically faster load times due to new server-side security processing.
- Larger calendars with faster interactivity allow for easier campaign scheduling.
New Apps for The Marketplace
U.S. Weather
The U.S. Weather app allows you to incorporate real time weather updates to your digital signage. Weather can be added to your campaigns at the Template level. Drag drop positioning and simple formatting tools allow you to customize the look and feel of your weather playback. There are no fees for using this app.
Live Campaign Reporting
Live Campaign Reporting provides you with all the information you need for proof of play including campaign playback, slide playback and custom reporting options that allow you to drill down into the nitty gritty details. Reports can be exported at any time for further manipulation. There are no fees for using this app.
Easily connect your Twitter account to your digital signage! When new tweets are posted online online, the information automatically feeds to your digital signage campaigns scheduled to include your Twitter account. Use one of our default templates or create and submit your own. See the Marketplace for pricing.
Screenfeed
Select from a variety of dynamic news sources to display current headlines and photos. The app is configurable and allows you to select to display all stories within a source, the number of slides to show based on your preferences, or completely randomized. Screenfeed comes in the following flavors:
- Celebrity Life-in-Pictures
- Health News-in-Pictures
- OMG! News-in-Pictures
- Sports News-in-Pictures
- Tech News-in-Pictures
- Top US News-in-Pictures
- UK News-in-Pictures
Again, we hope you enjoy these new features and additions to your CommandCenterHD account. As always, we'd love to hear your feedback. Call or write us anytime!
Call us: 877-344-8450
Write us: info@industryweapon.com
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