Prezi

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Prezi
Website logo
Ideas matter.
Presentation program
languages German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Hungarian
operator Prezi Inc.
user 75 million
(as of June 2016)
Registration Yes
On-line April 2009 (currently active)
http://prezi.com/

Prezi is a platform-independent, cloud- dependent presentation program . The software can be used to create a presentation on a virtual, large sheet of paper based on HTML5 technology, on which you can move around using the mouse and zoom in and out.

Create and edit a presentation

Prezi is available as a web application with HTML5 as Prezi-Next, with Adobe Flash as Prezi-Classic and as a stand-alone application called Prezi Desktop with Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac. At Prezi you work on a presentation surface, the interactive whiteboard , on which you can insert text fields, pictures or films, for example. The objects can then be enlarged, reduced, rotated and moved. Individual objects can be connected with paths. The software has a multi-user mode that is limited to ten people.

A presentation can be exported to a standalone Portable Prezi and played offline on Mac and Windows. For Linux there is the possibility of emulating this with a minimal web server or running the version exported for Windows through Wine . There is also playback software for Apple iPad available. Different formats such as videos or images in a Prezi presentation can no longer be exported individually. This makes it difficult to take over parts of presentations, and there is no machine searchability.

Animation sequence

If an object is connected to another by a path, the presentation looks similar to an approach in Google Earth , first a zoom out, then the surface rotates so that the new object is correctly aligned, and finally becomes the optimal one Zoomed in size. Critics respond to this animation effect, as it is judged by some as pleasant, but by others as rather unsuitable. The Learning Technology Support Service at University College London suggests that Prezi is easy to exaggerate.

Business model

Prezi is based on a freemium business model. It is freely accessible on the Internet, anyone can create presentations there and has 100 MB of data storage space. However, these are publicly visible and marked with a Prezi logo. Prezi offers five license versions, four of which are chargeable: The cheapest “Enjoy” license allows the creation of non-public presentations, removes the Prezi logo, increases the available storage space and also offers access to support. The more expensive "Pro" license allows downloading the editor and creating presentations offline. The “team” license also includes training options and central license management. For students and teachers at a college or university, there are discounted conditions in the "Edu" versions of the Prezi licenses. The "Edu Enjoy" license is completely free of charge, but does not offer the support option that is otherwise included. All that is required for authentication is a university ID for the email address to be registered.

Alternatives

An alternative that is based on a similar basic principle but is provided with a free license exists with Sozi, an Inkscape extension that animates an SVG file with Java Script. Some projects also try to imitate the Prezi concept by means of free web standards such as CSS3 transformations, although so far the work has been carried out directly in the source code. To achieve the convenience of Prezi, efforts are also being made to create GUI editors in HTML5 .

history

Prezi was developed in 2007 by the Hungarian artist Adam Somlai-Fischer and the computer scientist Peter Halacsy . They started Prezi as a presentation program for architecture firms. In 2008 they hired the Swedish-Hungarian young entrepreneur Peter Arvai as the company's boss, and in March 2009 they presented the program to the public. The company's headquarters are in San Francisco , with another larger office in Budapest , where the software was originally developed.

TED has been among the investors since 2009 , as has the venture capital company Sunstone Capital . The consultants include Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey . The software is now just as regularly used at TED conferences as it is for keynotes at LeWeb or the Europeana conference 2010. In a Lifehacker survey from September 2010, Prezi was among the five most popular presentation programs, but was clearly defeated by both PowerPoint and the final result Apple presentation program Keynote .

The revised Prezi Next platform was released on April 25, 2017. The HTML5-based version of the old presentation software, now called Prezi Classic, includes a new editor, allows extended animations during the presentation and offers users more comprehensive real-time analysis tools.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Preferred Language" category in the settings or footer on every Prezi.com page
  2. ↑ Venturebeat.com: With 75M users, Prezi targets businesses with new collaboration and analytics tools for presentations. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ About Prezi
  4. ^ Prezi Desktop
  5. ^ A b Rhett Allain: Non-Linear Presentations with Prezi , Wired, September 20, 2010
  6. ↑ Adam Somlai-Fischer: Download a Portable Prezi ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / prezi.com
  7. ↑ Prezi Offline Player for Linux
  8. ↑ Prezi Viewer for iPad ( Memento from June 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Ian Forrester: Prezi, my thoughts , July 27, 2009
  10. ↑ Dominique Hazaël-Massieux: Prezi vs JessyInk , October 9, 2009
  11. ^ Karl Hodge: Prezi review , Nov. 1, 2010, Macworld.co.uk
  12. ↑ LTSS Blog: Prezi… PowerPoint gets a little ruffled, audiences wake up
  13. ^ Prezi: License Pricing and Options , Prezi website, September 9, 2015
  14. ↑ https://github.com/senshu/Sozi
  15. ↑ https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/
  16. ↑ http://adityab.github.com/Awwation/
  17. ↑ https://github.com/tantaman/Strut
  18. ^ New York Times: [1] Nov 15, 2010
  19. ^ A b Peter Arvai / Patricia R. Olsen: The Hungarian Connection in: New York Times, November 13, 2010
  20. ^ Robin Wauters: Prezi Gains VC Funding And Jack Dorsey As An Advisor TechCrunch, July 20, 2009
  21. ↑ Lifehacker: Best presentation tool: PowerPoint , September 28, 2010
  22. ^ Prezi Next: The First Full-Cycle Presentation Tool | Prezi blog . In: Prezi Blog . April 25, 2017 ( prezi.com [accessed May 19, 2017]).
  23. ↑ Shabana Arora: Prezi Unveils Prezi Next . April 25, 2017 ( martechadvisor.com [accessed May 19, 2017]).