EScreenz improves internal communication beyond traditional digital signage and screen savers. It allows administrators to publish messages from a central dashboard that are then displayed to employees on desktops and laptops. Key features include the ability to create urgent messages, target specific user groups, and generate acknowledgement reports.

1. More than a corporate screen saver and beyond digital
signage, EScreenz™ improves internal communication.
CASE STUDY CASE STUDY CASE STUDY
Hospital in New York Major County in Florida Bank in Minnesota
A hospital, well known for its nationally A major county in Florida needs to augment A leading bank needs to communicate to
ranked geriatrics program and extensive emergency broadcasting to its employees, its branches more effectively. The bank
network of primary care physicians, also ensuring both reach and communication of chooses to use a screen saver solution to
takes pride and distinction in developing actions to be taken. It also needs to ensure communicate new customer programs and
a uniquely warm, caring environment. To computer usage compliance of contract promote its ongoing customer satisfaction
promote that environment to its employees workers. The county chooses the leading philosophy.
and physicians, the hospital uses screen screen saver technology to accomplish their
saver messages as an insistent daily objectives.
campaign to explain the importance of that
mission to its people and what is required to
develop that culture.
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2. Why do hospitals, government How Traditional Methods
are Less Effective
entities, corporations and Email
universities choose to use a • Too easy to ignore
simple screen saver to convey • Too much of it
• Too easy to delete
critical messages? • Could inadvertently go to junk mail or spam
Voice
Why not use more traditional in-house • Too many people to call
communication media, i.e. email, • Takes too long to listen to messages
voice or intranet? • Verbal communication can be incomplete, easily
misunderstood or misinterpreted
The answer may surprise you as we examine why
EScreenz™ screen saver may be the best internal Intranet
communication medium ever. • Great tool, but despite efforts in simplicity,
navigation and search tools, end users
frequently resist usage
• EScreenz™ screen saver technology can actually
enhance the usage of intranet sites by sending
the end user directly to specific areas within the
site
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3. How it Works Users Pervasiveness. Screen savers are available
on all computers whether they are desktops or
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laptops. That’s important because that translates into
widespread accessibility. That widespread accessibility
Admin becomes even more strategic when we realize that
screen savers can also be used as digital signage on
large screen monitors in cafeterias, hallways, lobbies
and meeting rooms. Anywhere people gather. Believe
it or not, that pervasiveness is even available for
remote users. Active message, captive user. A screen
saver message appears without any action initiated by
1. Your Admin publishes messages
using the EScreenz™ Dashboard the user. The user is within their normal habitué and
workplace.
2. EScreenz™ displays them as your corporate screen saver
Repetitiveness. In advertising, the Rule of Seven
states that a message must be seen or heard
at least seven times to be effective. This rule is
Screen savers as an in-house communication medium…few people virtually ignored by the business community when
have given any thought to the subject, and who could blame them? communicating to staff. Screen saver messaging can
reach the average office worker 20 times a day. Yet,
The screen saver was never intended to be used was more than 20 years ago and the concept has screen saver messages are viewed as non-invasive.
in that fashion; it came about exactly as the name changed little since then. You wouldn’t dare make 20 phone calls or send 20
implies: a small application that resides within emails in one day.
the computer desktop system that during idle So the question “Is the screen saver the best
moments, changes the screen in order to ‘save the in-house communication medium ever invented?” Prioritization. An organization’s message(s) on a
screen’ from burning in an image. probably seems an overstatement at best and screen saver announces to the team member, “This
maybe even a bit crackpot. Is Important!” “OK,” you say, “the problem is they are
There’s an entire generation of computer users who still only screen savers…bouncing balls or maybe
don’t even remember that there was a real danger flying mottos with limited capability and use.” You are
of burning an image on the older CRT displays.
But let’s take a look at right - or you were right - until the development of a
The solution to this problem was the invention of several things that the brand new product that changes the entire dynamic
the screen saver application. Soon after that, clever under-appreciated screen of how screen savers can be used to communicate:
programmers developed ‘bouncing balls’ or ‘decks EScreenz™.
of playing cards’ zooming in patterns to add a bit saver has going for it.
of entertainment to the screen saver concept. That
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4. EScreenz™ was initially developed for hospitals because of the special in-house communication challenges
EScreenz™ is an that hospitals face. Today, corporations, governmental departments and universities make use of EScreenz™.
But whatever your internal communication challenges are, they are unlikely to have as dire consequences as
abrupt shift in the miscommunication within a hospital. Ever-changing medical protocols and procedures, organization changes,
administration alerts, language difficulties, compliance requirements from state health departments, and accreditation
way organizations issues ALL in an environment where it is well documented that mistakes put patients at risk - this is where
communicate to EScreenz™ got its start.
their employees - EScreenz™ rich feature set is comprehensive and well thought out.
and get everyone
Multiple Messages Play Multimedia Good Morning Messages
on the same page. Sequential messages for Add video and audio clips to play Great for compliance issues.
organizational campaigns: within a slide. This is a great Shows one or more slides when
• Wellness campaigns feature for clips of an award the user logs on. Effectively locks
• Executives communicate acceptance, company events, computer until message is acted
initiatives and policies • Green initiatives message from the CEO, etc. upon before the user can proceed.
powerfully and with immediacy • Motivational campaigns An acknowledgement report is then
• New projects, policies Urgent Messaging generated that has sort features
• Human Resources services that you can customize.
and programs EScreenz™ augments your
employees faster and better
emergency broadcasting strategy.
• Emergency broadcasts Clickability When the Urgent Message Targeted Messaging
reach more people and The “clickable” feature enables feature is selected, EScreenz™ Segment and target messages
are more effective users to be sent to the Internet, conveys an urgent message to groups by function, location or
intranet or shared drives to enable throughout the enterprise as fast department using Active Directory.
• Intranet sites are instantly
data capturing for surveys, training as your network propagates. It will The implications are enormous.
more productive and
and more. EScreenz™ turns a interrupt end users mid-keystroke, Customer facing personnel get
enjoy increased usage
simple screen saver into a two-way no matter what your users are relevant information, manufacturing
communication medium. doing. Workplace violence, bomb gets training reinforcement and
• Compliance and safety finance is being made aware of
threats, hazardous material spills,
messages are read, new compliance regulations and
Quick View perilous weather situations…the
understood and digitally procedures - at the same time.
One click. No waiting. Users view urgent message can be prepared
acknowledged All, while every employee is being
slides on demand by clicking the or “typed in” at the moment. It can
• Morale and behavioral issues also be “clickable” to send end notified of changes in corporate
EScreenz™ desktop tray icon at
are addressed and improved users for next steps or additional policy.
any time.
information.
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5. EScreenz™ easy-to-use central Dashboard interface • Centrally manage content
• Create urgent messages
• Set length of time for each individual
message
Menu Bar
• Preview and change order of messages
Quick Links for • Schedule and archive slide shows
easy navigation
• Target specific messages to various
users/user groups using Active Directory
• Upload slides created in PowerPoint
(or any design application that supports
JPG, PNG or GIF files)
• Make any slide clickable
• Set Author, Publisher and Administrator
permissions for secure approval and
workflow
• Review and customize acknowledgement
reports
• Access support and continued
development
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6. FAQs What is EScreenz™?
More than a corporate screen saver and beyond digital
What are the client (workstation)
requirements for EScreenz™?
signage, EScreenz™ improves internal communication EScreenz™ is compatible with all current versions of Microsoft
in hospitals, corporations, universities and governments. Windows: XP, Vista, and even Windows 7! It will run in both
EScreenz™ central Dashboard allows authorized Admin(s) to standard edition and 64 bit editions of Microsoft Windows.
publish messages directly to any and all employees’ desktops Note: All PCs must have the Dot Net Runtime Environment
and laptops. installed to run the EScreenz client. Versions 2.0, 3.5, and
4.0 are acceptable. This environment is a default part of Vista
For additional What makes EScreenz™ different and Windows 7, but is not installed by default on all versions
from ordinary screen savers? of XP. If EScreenz™ is manually installed and the Dot Net
information: Among its many unique attributes, EScreenz™ is clickable, has Runtime is not present, the installer will prompt you to install
www.escreenz.com it first. For unattended automatic installation using facilities
a powerful Urgent Messaging feature, can generate reports
sales@escreenz.net such as an Active Directory Group Policy, the Dot Net Runtime
for internal compliance and includes a hosted web application
which makes it easy for you to create slide shows you prepare Environment should be installed using a separate group policy
For a free demo: using Microsoft PowerPoint and present them through the prior to installing EScreenz™ with a second group policy.
Christopher Snelling EScreenz™ screen saver to groups you choose.
Product Manager Are there any interactions between
585-760-1032 How can I see a demo of EScreenz ? ™
EScreenz™ and single sign-on programs?
csnelling@escreenz.net Entre Computer Services would be happy to set up a Live The short answer is no. The client is a screen saver and
Meeting to demonstrate EScreenz™. Just contact us at 585- runs using the login credentials of the logged in user. The
760-1010 or sales@escreenz.net, and we will schedule a live administrative (content) server is an authenticated Web-based
meeting where you can see EScreenz™ in action and discuss application which requires a separate login. We would be
how it will work in your organization. happy to discuss any single sign-on requirements in more
detail at the same time that you participate in a Live Meeting
What are the server demo of EScreenz™.
requirements for EScreenz™?
Entre Computer Services hosts the content server portion of
EScreenz™ at our secure data center. In addition, the default
Relay Service is also installed at Entre’s secure data center.
To enhance performance of large installations of EScreenz™,
you may install additional EScreenz™ Relay Services on
A division of Entre Computer Services any IIS 6.0 or later Web server within your internal network.
2000 Winton Road South The EScreenz™ Relay Service caches the content you have
Rochester, New York 14618
www.entrecs.com | www.escreenz.com published within your organization, reducing network traffic
585-760-1010 through your firewall to the public Internet.
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