Helps to solve issues we had beforehand. Helps to save working time (if everybody contributes which remains a challenge). Makes working with PowerPoint more efficient.

The authoring tool make PowerPoint much more comprehensive. The central library with it's functions is really the key benefit and enables us to maintain a single source our truth regarding our different slide decks.

An administrative central user management console would be helpful. Performance has already significantly improved but there is still ground to gain. Some more features in the library with regards to history and a changelog would be nice.

overall it eases my work day by day for all my need

I like most that I have one tab in powerpoint with al my needed functions

I don't really like the date picker. I like the one of think-cell more, becaus it's more intuitive

An essential tool for organisations that have many slides to manage, but it's still very buggy!

Slide library management, easy updates with side by side comparison wizard.

buggy, even after the latest update, I need to restart computer once per day and slow to upload and see new content in library.

Once you link the presentation, it's just smooth sailing from there - Saves a lot of time

Seamlessly linking PowerPoint to Excel in real-time

It sometimes slows down when linking multiple data

Overall, we have been very happy. We have had a recent issue with SharePoint ad empower but the technical team is looking into this matter.

The graphing functionality is a game changer and allows us to deliver complex information in a simple and effective manner. Being able to save template presentations in a central library is also very useful.

We previously had issues with using empower tables in presentations because once we updated the data, the table format would change. We have also struggled to link tavles which have merged cells.

Templates, links to excel, document Management

Small icons for presentations make it difficult to see slides that are to be imported

Ability to quickly clean up presentations

Slow load times when looking to insert graphs

Handy tool to create a timelines with the progress timeframes.

High consumption of memory in charts which leads to sluggish performance, crashes, or even make it impossible to display the chart some time.

It has allowed us to manage our decks and slides in a really efficient way, which is very easy to find, edit and update. The customer service is unbelievable in terms of helping us use the system to its full capacity for our needs.

No complaints. It works very well for us.

Overall this has been relatively easy to use for basic charts. I also have worked directly with support 1:1 and was able to solve my issue quickly.

Variety of templates that are easy to use and easy to link data in a structured manner.

There are some challenges with formatting the charts and there is a learning curve to manipulate the presentation.

There are several features that are critical for use in my company. The ease of searching for slides or documents where you need them most is first and foremost. The layout of bringing productivity tools and an easier agenda tool to the front make it a must have for slide creation.

We would love additional reporting so we can better our own library of material and see what our users are using most. This would help us train better if the content is there and they aren't finding it or focusing on content that is used most.

Nach über zwei Jahren Höhen und auch Tiefen sind wir mittlerweile großenteils zufrieden, besonders anzumerken die positive Entwicklung seit einem Jahr. Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit! :)

Mittlerweile eine einfache Implementierung und Bereitstellung in die Azure Infrastruktur, als es noch bei on-premise der Fall war und keine massiven Server/Client Performance Probleme mehr (Version 9.0). Die Software ist im wesentlichen stabiler und ausgereifter, als es noch in den vorherigen Versionen der Fall war und es wird auch auf Feedback oder Kritik gehört und versucht diese schnell umzusetzen/fixen, was nicht mehr selbstverständlich ist. Die User sind soweit zufrieden und wir sind es auch, bitte weiter so.

Leider kein Load Balancing oder Fallback möglich. Kein Sync Control für große Umgebungen, um beim Rollout neuer Versionen und vielen gleichzeitigen Client Syncs eigene DDoS auf die Server zu vermeiden. Leider noch zu wenig administrative Möglichkeiten/Einstellungen im empower Admin Center (Performance Dashboards, Verbindungen, Versionen, etc.). Und der Support (Reaktion + Lösung) könnte zum Teil noch besser werden.

If you really want to have a strong brand and good presentations and storytellers for your company you should not hesitate and give it a try.

Easy to use for all employees after a minimum of training improves quality and efficiency immediately. Smooth integration in MS Office suite.

to use empower cloud as well as the storage of all powerpoints didn't work out for us. Sharing on a teams and sharepoint, chatting and collaborating found an easier way to our employees.

empower helps us to create better presentations and documents in less time. So, it is essentially a no brainer because the payback of this software happens instantly.

empower helps me save a lot of time creating presentations and Office documents. With the design check capabilities, I can quickly check my presentations and documents and fix them in seconds. So I create better Office documents in less time.

Initially, there was no automatic translation feature included, but this has been added recently with DeepL translations which is super useful. So nothing that is not good or missing as of today.

Für die Nutzung der Software bleibt man in der gewohnten PowerPoint-Umgebung. Mithilfe von empower kann man - bei konsequenter Beachtung und Anwendung der Updatemechanismen - PowerPoint-Folien unternehmensweit sehr gut verwalten und weiterentwickeln.

Für die erfolgreiche Nutzung der Softwarefunktionalität bedarf es eines tiefergehenden Verständnisses der Updateprozesse in empower, die auf dem ersten Blick recht komplex erscheinen. Die mitgelieferte Dokumentation könnte da noch verbessert werden. Außerdem wären eine Importfunktion für die Medien in der Bibliothek (Bilder, Videos) zukünftig sehr hilfreich (in einer früheren Version von empowervorhanden) sowie eine Anzeigefunktion, in welchen Folien die Medien eingebunden sind.

Kostenfaktor, der große Treiber, dass sich für empower entschieden wurde. Alle Mitarbeiter können theoretisch mit empower ausgestattet werden bei annähernd gleicher Funktionalität wie TC.

deutlich kostengünstiger als Mitbewerber am Markt. Hohe Stabilität in den aktuellen Office Versionen, keine ständigen Updates nötig um die Funktionalität zu gewährleisten, wie bei anderen Mitwettbewerbern

Usability im direkten Vergleich zu vergleichbaren Produkten, Tool erfordert gewisse Zeit der Einarbeitung

Thanks empower, our instructors download and give training course (powerpoint presentations) always up-to-date. Thanks empower the training course source (library) is only one. All the instructors download the training courses from one source only. Thanks empower, as soon as one "mother" slide as been updated, all training courses using this slide, are suddenly updated. Thanks empower the language management of our training courses is much better.

Desired feature: the Undo feature in the library management as well in the content management.

A bug I discovered sometimes. The slides updating procedure was sometimes wrong. The system inserted sometimes the slide from an other/wrong source. For example in a presentation in English, by the slide update procedure, it inserted slides from the French presentation.

Empower Bibliothek: Durch die cloudbasierte Bibliothek lassen sich Inhalte wie Präsentationen oder Bilder schnell und einfach für die ganze Organisation zur Verfügung stellen. Empower Layout Tools: Die Layout Tools sind hilfreich, um Präsentationen effizient zu gestalten. Empower Menüband: Der Empower Tab und die Symbolleiste stellen alle relevanten Powerpoint-Funktionen an einem Ort übersichtlich zusammen und lassen sich leicht individualisieren.

Ladezeiten und Auswirkung auf Performance der Geräte, insbesondere bei leistungsschwacher Hardware.

I love it, I use it every day to manage our brand and keep our decks looking great. The admins on our team are using it with great facility now, so we always look professional and we are saving a lot of time putting materials together. The main content creators are still not fully comfortable, but it's only been a few months, so I'm hoping with more exposure they will gain confidence.

The Layout Tool is my favorite thing ever; it saves so much time in making slides look professional and organized with just a few clicks. And the library of predesigned slides and decks has been an absolute lifesaver. Onboarding with the Empower team's large suite of video tutorials and 1:1 trainings has been a great process.

This is a steep learning curve for my busy team, who don't always remember to return to the library to get the latest version of a slide. A more organized onboarding and training process for teams would be really helpful. Also, saving images to the library is a bit laborious.

Crucial role for content and knowledge management (especially sales-related, but not exclusively) in a decentralised Consulting organisation Substantial efficiency boost in daily proposal work Easy to use content update and optimising mechanics (regarding MS PowerPoint)

Still not a bug-free programme (although major 'game-breaking' issues have been adressed already) Few questionable functionality decisions, e.g. - the possibility to copy/paste slides/sets etc., but not to copy/paste folders or - the linking mechanic between original slides and their copies, which works fine between the private and the company library but not with the corporate design templates

Reducing search time for users, making sure they use the latest versions. Reducing content creation time due to effective tools and features. Translation of a whole deck while all formats and graphics are kept unchanged is a major benefit as well.

Corporate library allows to provide standard content (e.g. corporate slides or slide templates for re-use, photo and icon library) and templates (e.g. XLS forms) directly where the user needs it. On top of this, many additional PowerPoint features make slide creation easier (Agenda wizard, layout tools, DeepL translation)

There is a macOS version, but it has less features than the WIndows version. But is is providing the same library.

Good to have the reduced timeline to meet the management expection for delivering the presentation on projects, reporting, tracking.

Cost of Prod & Ease access of tech support

Editing of font & its color and matching with presentation template should be auto detected and applied to working pptx files.

Very easy to use, I love the icons, images that are placed and can be replaced automatically. I also like the translation option and the numerous of templates, infographics and inspiration material

We use Empower daily. We have designed thousand of slides for our clients. It is easy to use and learn. It helps us minimize our time by 60-70%. We also like the automated consistency check tools.

Maybe some more functionalities would be great.

As a user, I have been using Empower for about 10 years in various industries. The continuous development has always inspired me. I am absolutely convinced of the tool and can only recommend it.

- CI compliant chart creation - productivity increase - Standards - slide database - no redundancies in slides - always current status of individual slides - support for diagram creation

There are actually no points that I don't like. The following things could be added as features - more precise description options of images in the content database - More otpions in database synchronization for the clients

Mit empower können wir viel effizienter arbeiten und Präsentationen viel schneller auf den neuesten Datenstand bringen.

Mit empower Charts kann man super Diagramme zu Excels verlinken. Wenn die Excel sich aktualisiert, aktualisiert sich auch das Diagramm. Das alles ist sehr schick gemacht.

Eigentlich nichts. Passt alles gut und erfüllt meine Needs.