August 16, 2006 - American Venture Magazine
Sales Presentations That Sell
By AlexAnndra Ontra
Sitting through a painful PowerPoint presentation with slide-after-slide-after-slide of sophomoric clip art and cumbersome sentences disguised as bullet points have become the norm in today’s business world.  It’s a crutch at meetings, a security blanket for the sales and marketing professional and sometimes a sleeping pill for the audience, which usually is a perspective client.  Yes, it may tell a story or outline a solution, but does a presentation really close a deal?  The answer is, it sure could help. Entire article...
American Venture Magazine

May 2006 - Inc. Magazine (print version)
Making your (Power) Point ---- Presentation Awards ----- Best For… The "WOW" factor
By Ellen Neuborne
Cool Features: In addition to the standard charts and text, Ontra allows users to easily incorporate video, audio, and animation and can make a presentation seem more like network television than the standard slide show. Ontra can work alongside PowerPoint, or replace it entirely.

In Action: Sales execs at Tribune Entertainment rely on flashy presentations to help convince national advertisers to purchase time on its syndicated programming. In the past, that often required using a laptop computer, a VHS player, a DVD player, and a monitor. Ontra combines standard informational slides with digitized video clips--and the entire presentation runs off a single laptop. "Now that we're not trying to juggle three machines and all their moving parts, we can focus on giving our pitch," says Clark Morehouse, a senior vice president.
Inc. Magazine

February 20, 2006 - Computerworld
Manage corporate slide decks...with an alternative to PowerPoint.
By Mark Hall
James Ontra, CEO of Ontra Presentations LLC in New York, thinks there's a better way to equip business folks with tools for presenting corporate data: Use a slide collection that's built on a centrally controlled database. That's the key difference between his company's PowerPoint-compatible Ontra Presenter software and Microsoft Corp. 's ubiquitous product. Presenter lets end users access a central database of slides and arrange or even alter them as needed. Slides can then be stored locally on laptops and get updated with the latest information from the central repository via a mouse click, Ontra says. He calls presentation tools "the missing piece of CRM." In fact, by year's end, he plans to integrate Presenter with CRM offerings such as Siebel applications and Salesforce.com Inc.'s hosted software. Subscription pricing starts at $250 per month for five end users.
ComputerWorld

January 29, 2006 - Sales Promotion Magazine
The presenters’ toolbox
Ontra Presentations 4.1, a presentation management suite, turns your computer or office network into a user-friendly warehouse for all of your sales teams, brochures, presentations, and a/v sales and marketing
collateral. The system enables your sellers to search and recall only the most relevant and up-to-date content from your virtual Ontra presentation library to quickly and easily organize and build sales presentations. Ontra also lets users incorporate just about any kind of content into a presentation: PDFs, spread sheets, Web pages, multimedia audio and sound, and more. “A large and disorganized sales force hurts internal communication and communication with customers,” said Alex Anndra, president and co-founder of Ontra Presentations. “[This] keeps the entire sales force organized… and on the same page.”

January 23, 2006 - Crains New York Business
Tech firm profits in giant's shadow
By Frances Cerra Whittelsey
Three years ago, siblings James and AlexAnndra Ontra did something that might have appeared crazy. They raised money from friends and family to restart a company that had been cut adrift by its original venture capital backers and whose only product competed directly with Microsoft's ubiquitous PowerPoint presentation software.
Crains New York Business

January 18, 2006 - ThomasNet IndustrialNewsRoom
Sales Software offers presentation management component.
Ontra Presentations v4.1 creates slideshows with multimedia content and provides communications platform with which to manage all aspects of sales and marketing process. By incorporating business functionality into presentation software, product addresses needs of entire organization. Software manages print, web, and audio visual collateral in searchable database, enabling entire sales team to access resources and present consistent brand identity.
ThomasNet IndustrialNewsRoom

November 25, 2005 - Small Biz Technology
Beyond "Presentations as Usual"
If you are looking for a presentation solution that goes beyond presentations as usual, consider Ontra Presentations newest software release, version 4.1. I'm sure you have Microsoft Power Point, the grand-daddy of presentation software on your PC now but maybe you find that you want to do more, much more and find it limiting.
Small Biz Technology

November 21, 2005 - American Venture Magazine
On Your Mark, Get Set, Pitch
By AlexAnndra Ontra
The demands of raising venture capital are grueling for any CEO and or executive team.  A road show, it seams, of never-ending presentations.  Yet, during the short time in front of would-be investors, it is essential to not only to communicate the value proposition, but do it in a way that grabs attention, gets them involved and immediately helps to close the deal. 
American Venture Magazine

November 1, 2005 - Create Magazine
Ontra Presentations releases most powerful sales software yet
PRSENTATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE provides advanced features in a user-friendly platform
Create Magazine

September 21, 2005
The Connecticut Democratic Party and Design2Launch choose Ontra's versitile software for dynamic, powerful presentation
Ontra Release

July 20, 2005 - Indezine.com
Geetesh Bajaj interviews James Ontra for Indezine.com #59
Indezine.com

April 27, 2005 - MediaPost
Software Marketer Doesn't Receive, Helps Make Nets' Upfront Pitches
By David Kaplan, MediaPost
AT LEAST ONE MARKETER IS cutting deals on its own in this year's upfront without the aid of a media buyer: software maker Ontra Presentations has signed on several broadcast and cable networks to use its video applications to make their pitch to advertisers and agencies.
MediaPost

April 25, 2005
Scripps Networks uses Ontra Presentation Software to Sell Upfront 2005 Advertising
Scripps salespeople from HGTV, Food Network, DIY, FINE LIVING and Great American Country to use Ontra presentation software

April 20, 2005 - Multichannel News
Not Your Father’s Presentation Software:
By Steve Raddock, Multichannel News
For the vast majority of local TV salespeople, Powerpoint is pretty much the standard in presentation technology. But 37 broadcast TV stations owned by ABC, NBC and Telemundo have discovered an alternative they refer to as “Powerpoint on steroids” for going head-to-head with local cable on sales calls.
Multichannel News

November 09, 2004
Springboard: New England select Ontra Presentations, LLC to present at 5th annual forum showcasing woman-led ventures

September 20, 2004
NBC Television Sales & Marketing Taps Ontra Presentations to Upgrade Its National and Local Sales Initiatives For Twenty-Eight NBC & Telemundo Stations
Dallas News  |  Seattle Times

June 07, 2004
Loews Cineplex Entertainment Rolls Out New Era of Movie-Related Sponsorships with the Help of Ontra Presentations

May 20, 2004
Ontra Presentations Inks FOX Broadcasting Co., the Latest Network to Make the Switch to Ontra Presentation Software
CNET  |  Washington Post

January 27, 2004
Ontra Presentations Inks Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, the Latest Network to Make the Switch to Ontra