Considered the world's most flexible and technically advanced digital signage system, A+K PADS Professional is nevertheless easy to install and requires only basic PC skills to create multi-monitor presentations.

A+K PADS Professional software is not just another digital signage product. It's a bundle of applications suitable to drive your smallest digital signage installation of one single screen to your largest, mission critical installations with thousands of screens.

A+K PADS Professional enables you to design, schedule and distribute any type of content and have it displayed where and whenever you want. The unequalled database connectivity features make it possible even for inexperienced users to include real-time data from any data source in your content with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Again and again people having seen many products categorically say that it's the easiest-to-use, most flexible and powerful solution for digital signage..

PADS Designer

PADS Designer is a powerful design tool that allows you to compose presentations with ANY possible content.

PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos, the very latest Macromedia Flash content, live TV, ticker tapes linked to RSS feeds and Internet pages are just a small selection of the large amount of content that PADS supports. If your desired element turns out to be missing you can even add it yourself as an Add-on.

With the built-in database connectivity features you can easily link real-time data from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Exchange, your own CMS or any other database to your presentation. Through dynamic rules, you can determine exactly what content must be shown on what conditions.

Key features

The enormous amount of features of PADS Designer has proven many times in practice to offer a solution for hardly any display request.

• Designing presentations with ANY content possible
• Large collection of page elements
• Master pages for a consistent layout
• Database connections for displaying real-time data
• Dynamic rules for conditionally based displaying
• Support of interactive presentations

PADS Professional Manager

With PADS Manager you decide from your own workplace exactly where and when the presentation you have designed is shown.

You can schedule your presentation for an individual display or group of displays. With this you can have it played during a fixed period of time or recurrently like weekly, daily or even every hour. Through priority levels you can play presentations with priority.

With PADS Manager you will always retain full control of your scheduled presentation. At any time you can adjust the schedule or content of your presentation within a few seconds, even if it is currently playing.

Through role-based permissions PADS Manager allows you to grant groups of users access to a subset of displays or a zone on the screen. As main user you will always stay in full control.

Key features

• Easy scheduling of presentations
• Comprehensive features for recurrent schedules
• Unlimited grouping of displays
• Priority based scheduling
• Live changing schedules or content
• Role-based access to displays or zones
• Central management of users from Active Directory possible

PADS Professional Server

PADS Server ensures that your scheduled presentations including everything that's related end up with the right displays, regardless of where in the world these displays are.

Using our unique synchronization mechanism pictures, videos and other content files are distributed with a minimal network load. You can fully determine yourself when and under what conditions this should occur.

If your presentations contain real-time data then PADS Server can collect this information for you from various data sources and make it available to the connected displays.

For large installations across multiple locations you can use replicated PADS Servers to further minimize the network load.

Key features

• Automatic distribution of scheduled presentations
• Targeted distribution of content files
• Automatic collection and distribution of real-time data
• Distribution over LAN, WAN, Intranet or Internet
• Minimum network load
• Secured communication via data encryption

PADS Professional Viewer

The PADS Viewer application ensures that your scheduled content is played perfectly and at the right moment on a display.

When playing, PADS Viewer can dynamically insert real-time content into you presentation. By this the displayed information is always up-to-date and corresponds to the situation of that time.

PADS Viewer can handle screens of any size and resolution. If you wish, you can simultaneously control multiple screens, individually or as a whole.

PADS Desktop Viewer

Besides the standard PADS Viewer A+K also offers PADS Desktop Viewer enabling you to simply and quickly inform your employees at their workplace, group wise or individually.

With PADS Desktop Viewer you can playback your scheduled content on the PCs of your employees: on request or automatically as screen saver. In addition the powerful Alert features give the possibility to have important messages appear instantly on the screen of your employees.

Key features

• Playback of scheduled presentations
• View at real size or resolution independent
• Real-time insertion of dynamic content
• Local caching as fallback to network failures
• Compatible with interactive touch screens
• Desktop Viewer for playback at workplace
• Alert function for instant communication

PADS Professional Agent

The PADS Agent application is an essential tool if you want to stay informed about the operation of your digital signage system.

In this application all relevant functions have been bundled to monitor an manage the PADS Server and PADS Viewers of your system. All this can be done remotely from your workplace anywhere in the world.

With PADS Agent you can retrieve valuable information about each part of your PADS system including system information, versions, log files, program settings and even live screen shots. In case of (network) failures you can be automatically notified by e-mail or SMS.

Beside this you can remotely execute or schedule important tasks like the installation of new software updates or a reboot of a PC.

Altogether PADS Agent saves system administrators a lot of time in the provision of maintenance and support.

Key features

• Remote monitoring and management of your server and displays
• Retrieval of valuable system information
• Automatic notification in case of failures
• Scheduling tasks for performing operations
• Central installation of software updates
• Cost saving for maintenance and support