The simplicity of the PowerPoint plugin is amazing. It's what drew me to OMBEA in the first place. It's very easy to add polling to your presentation but you can do more than that if you wish as well. The software does a lot. If you want to use smartphones, you can. If you want to use clickers, you can. If you want both, you can! I only use it with small groups but I first came across it at a seminar at the TrainCon summit last year. The presenter there was using it with around 200 people and it worked really smoothly. They've got really good help files online and that's how I've been learning the more advanced parts of OMBEA. My contact there has offered my a webinar. Although I haven't taken her up on it yet it's nice to know that they care enough to reach out to me like this.

The software is very intuitive and easy to get to grips with. This was essential in helping encourage adoption by our lecturers, who have very little time to spare learning new technologies. The PowerPoint integration is excellent, enabling you to poll the audience without breaking the flow of your presentation to jump out into another program. The team at Ombea provide excellent support and actively work with you to get the most out of the software. For us, this included supporting our staff in the transition from another popular piece of polling software to Ombea. Furthermore, when we identified a bug in the software the team were very quick to fix it.

The functionality is superb. It is so easy to use and collects really useful real time data. It also adds a sense of participation to a speaking engagement.