Here are the 3 biggest problems that BrandOffice solves for me: 1. Making sure all materials are up to date 2. Giving my [SENSITIVE CONTENT] (and the sales team) easy access to those materials 3. My sanity is saved because I don't have to say "it's in Sharepoint" or send attachments anymore.

My [SENSITIVE CONTENT] has been begging me for years to have a place where she can open a presentation and then just pick and choose the slides she wants. I tried to make SharePoint folders and different templates and all the options she needed but it didn't work. Then I tried a document management system where she could search for the words she wanted and then pull things together, but that had way too many steps for everyone. BrandOffice has allowed me to make multiple templates for different types of clients and ALSO create a library of individual slides that can be added at will, and it's all in one place for easy access!

At the moment, the only thing is that it can't be used by Mac or Web users (which is a very small minority of people on the team), but I know that stuff is coming!

BrandOffice has been a solid, stable and now, inextricable part of our business for proposals, letters, specifications and reports. We are able to consistently update standard content as our knowledge and experience grows, and as a result the quality of our work is getting better and better. This is a truly outstanding product.

The fact that the product install directly to the desktop applications and i9s managed centrally is such a fantastic approach. My users never have an incorrect template and as soon as we update the content, they always have it at their fingertips. Being able to centrally manage our content in one single, authoritative, place rather than file shares and document management solutions, is hugely effective and refreshing.

There really isn't anything that I can find fault in at this stage. The users took to it right away and because of the user experience they tinkered and understood rapidly. So no... no cons in our experience

Our Marketing team had to be pretty invested time-wise in overseeing document production for our company. Our company staff were constantly frustrated by old, mostly unwieldy Word templates that were impossible to work with and took forever to open. These issues are now a thing of the past. Marketing has programmed all the branded assets staff could ever need in BrandOffice including new, easy-to-use templates across Office, and we can add or segment out by team needs any boiler plate content to make it easy for staff to just drop in to their documents to save time. There is so much functionality in the BrandOffice platform and it has been a miracle find for us. I also can't thank [sensitive content hidden] from BrandOffice enough for her guidance and patience walking us through set up and implementation.

I knew we needed a better solution to our Word document nightmare. From a marketing perspective, you want staff to be able to produce on-brand, good looking reports and client-facing documents. Our outdated programmer-developed Word templates were just awful - the template would be impossible to share, functionality would break, staff would unlock them and then random styles would be added, they lagged terribly and took forever to open. I found BrandOffice on Capterra one afternoon while hoping to find some miracle that might make Office templates. It is amazing - it is easy to use and launch - it allows our Marketing team to provide staff beautifully branded templates across Office, with a library of all the additional assets they could possibly need to build reports and proposals. With the online backend managed by the Marketing team, we can easily make updates and add new branded imagery, content inserts and the like - at the team level - so that we know our company staff have everything they need to seamlessly build custom documents, that are on-brand and in less time. Now without the need for Marketing to do any heavy lifting such as fixing formatting or finding stock imagery - as it's all available under the BrandOffice tool bar now - Marketing can focus more on Marketing and not document production. BrandOffice has exceeded my initial expectations and I'm so happy we've implemented it!!

The only 'con' I could say has nothing to do with the software and more just speaks to training staff. I was kind of surprised that once we implemented and removed access to our old, locked templates, that it became evident many staff were unfamiliar with he basic functionality of Word. And this was common across all levels of staff, so that is the one thing the implementation team has been trying to address through tutorials and training. The software is really user-friendly from both an amin and user perspective. We had amazing support from BrandOffice for implementation and during the process of building out, I become more aware of the gaps in my own knowledge for setting up functionality in Word (in all honesty, I'm a graphic designer and live in Adobe so never had a need). So that would be the one thing as a heads up if you will, change management and tutorials are your best friends before and during roll out.

Good

We use it as a framework to implement our business processes.

As for all of these products, you need a permitted product owner.

It has a very useful and productivity-enhancing look

It's nice that some processes are done automatically. It saves me time

I don't think they have many shortcomings. Only some tools need to be edited. Maybe a little change to the interface would be good.