Try Office 365 for free for 30 days. Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor. With New Tool, Visual.ly Wants To Replace PowerPoint With Infographics. "Before PowerPoint, you had to go find a designer to create a custom presentation," says Stew Langille.
"Even though everyone hates PowerPoint now, it was really helpful when it first came out. " Now Langille’s startup, Visual.ly, is attempting to do for infographics what Microsoft did for presentations. Today, the company launched a new platform to allow virtually anyone to create data visualizations. By tapping into data APIs--from Facebook Insights, Twitter, Data.gov, and so forth--Visual.ly enables users to plug predetermined datasets into premade designs, offering a stable of templates and themes that will continue to grow thanks to the startup’s in-house team and community of roughly 4,000 freelance designers. Online Presentation Tools.