Launching Digital Signage using Xibo
What do you like best?
Xibo helps to manage users, different channels and a lot of other functionalities. If you've ever used a software like movie-maker, which includes timeline, and adobe pagemaker, to arrange the layout of your page, you will easily get along using Xibo CMS. It is easy to use and understand. However, when you add the elements (your images, videos or such presentation items) you will not be able to see them before you hit the preview. In preview, everything appears as you planned and placed in the layout. It is responsive to the device and gives you a very good result.
What do you dislike?
- While the use of CMS is very comforting, at times, the multiple functionality may confuse new users.
- You get a 14 days free trial of Xibo apk to install on your TV or device but this seriously needs to improve the licensing process. Simply after purchasing the license and adding it was a tough job and had to go through the documentation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It doesn't take a professional or months of experience to use Xibo but it definitely takes some time for the first time setup. It is better to save your time by checking some documentation at first or watching a few youtube videos about Xibo.
Along with that, if at any point you need help, please contact the support team at Xibo without any hesitation as this will really save your time. The system offers a lot more that what a specific user will actually try to achieve at a given point of time.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, it was necessary to display the awareness on how to prevent catching this infection. So, we thought of displaying it in slides, texts and videos to the visitors at the office lobby, regardless of how less visitors there were. As the autoplay of sound on browsers are not supported, xibo presented an unique opportunity to display the messages interactively and it was fairly fruitful. Let's say, it did the job perfectly.