OTI Polling Products:
Option Technologies Interactive,
LLC (OTI) has two polling software products:
 OptionFinder®
is the most widely used interactive wireless audience response system in the
world. It was created as a facilitator's tool and remains OTI's flagship
product. OptionFinder's extensive and powerful features support
facilitators needing a dynamic tool suited to the nature of face-to-face
interaction. CompuTouch has been working with OptionFinder for over fifteen
years,
using it in meeting of all sizes — a few participants in a boardroom to over
2000 in a convention hall.
 OptionPower™
is a sister product from the same company. OptionPower is an add-in to Microsoft PowerPoint (2000, XP, 2003),
which allows
you to create polls and results graphs in PowerPoint. OptionPower is particularly well-suited to: training, market / consumer research, and continuing medical
education (CME) meetings, especially those meetings where PowerPoint shows have
already been created. OptionPower has been designed so that anyone reasonably familiar
with PowerPoint can, in short order, create polls and run a meeting. Ease-of-use
features include:
Which to use?
| |
OptionFinder |
OptionPower |
| Learning the software |
More sophisticated product with steeper learning curve. |
Short learning curve. If you use PowerPoint regularly then
OptionPower is a breeze. |
| Poll types |
Questions, group dimensions (i.e. demographic
cross-tabulations) and processing a list using forced ranking and/or
rating scales. |
Questions, cross-tabulation, jeopardy / millionaire
style game-show formats |
| Results graphs |
Summary or detail graphs when working with a list of
items. Ability to show sub-sets from the list.
Only a few graph formats.
2-axis XY graphs (i.e. impact / likelihood format) are an integral component. |
Basically any graph format that PowerPoint can create — bar,
pie, etc. |
| When to choose |
When the meeting involves a "process" - control / risk
self-assessment, strategic planning, prioritizing a pre-seeded or
on-the-fly list of items, ranking strategic initiatives, etc. |
For training, employee surveys, plenary talks, conference
evaluations, fun events / game shows, or anytime you want to add
stand-alone polls
to an existing PowerPoint presentation. |
  
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