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Carsten
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Helps to bring order to the chaos
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.
PROSThe 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.
CONSAn 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.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution and that you experience the advantages of the central library. Should you have any questions about administration please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help! https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied August 2022
Heil
Government Relations, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
my review/MWIDE
overall it eases my work day by day for all my need
PROSI like most that I have one tab in powerpoint with al my needed functions
CONSI don't really like the date picker. I like the one of think-cell more, becaus it's more intuitive
Reasons for switching to empower
it was a decision of our procurement department
Vendor Response
Thank you for your great feedback! We are happy to hear that you are enjoying empower®. We will be happy to pass on your suggestions for improvement.
Replied March 2024
Borna
Airlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Getting there
An essential tool for organisations that have many slides to manage, but it's still very buggy!
PROSSlide library management, easy updates with side by side comparison wizard.
CONSbuggy, even after the latest update, I need to restart computer once per day and slow to upload and see new content in library.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review, it helps us get better every day. Great to hear empower® supports you in your daily work. For any technical issues, please contact our support team. We are always happy to help.
Replied March 2024
Lerato
Management Consulting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Automated Presentations
Once you link the presentation, it's just smooth sailing from there - Saves a lot of time
PROSSeamlessly linking PowerPoint to Excel in real-time
CONSIt sometimes slows down when linking multiple data
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great feedback! It is great to hear that empower is saving you a lot of time. Do not hesitate to contact our empower Express team if you have any questions.
Replied March 2024
Tayla
Investment Banking, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
Corporate Finance user feedback
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.
PROSThe 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.
CONSWe 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.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the awesome review! We're glad to hear that you're enjoying using empower®. Feel free to visit our Help Center or check out our YouTube channel to learn more about tables in PowerPoint. If you still have questions, please contact our support team. We are always here to help.
Replied March 2024
Bruce
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
empower streamlines our corporate finance process
Templates, links to excel, document Management
CONSSmall icons for presentations make it difficult to see slides that are to be imported
Vendor Response
Thank you for your great feedback! It is great to hear that the features of empower® help you in your daily work. We will pass on your feedback.
Replied March 2024
Oratilwe
Management Consulting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
Empowered is great
Ability to quickly clean up presentations
CONSSlow load times when looking to insert graphs
Vendor Response
Thank you for your great review! We are glad that you are working with empower® more brand compliant. We will share your feedback with our IT department.
Replied March 2024
Abhai
Telecommunications, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
empower the tool for PM/Pgms
Handy tool to create a timelines with the progress timeframes.
CONSHigh consumption of memory in charts which leads to sluggish performance, crashes, or even make it impossible to display the chart some time.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your great feedback! It helps us to get better every day. Feel free to contact our empower® Express team if you have any questions about the charts.
Replied March 2024
Claire
Banking, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2024
Excellent deck management
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.
CONSNo complaints. It works very well for us.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your amazing feedback! We are happy that you are so satisfied with empower®.
Replied March 2024
Anonymous
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2024
So far, so good...
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.
PROSVariety of templates that are easy to use and easy to link data in a structured manner.
CONSThere are some challenges with formatting the charts and there is a learning curve to manipulate the presentation.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your great review! We are glad that you are happy with empower®. For a more in-depth look at the features and functionality of empower®, we encourage you to visit our Help Center or our YouTube channel.
Replied March 2024
Kelly
Management Consulting, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
empower for brand and library management
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.
CONSWe 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.
Reason for choosing empower
We needed to ensure we weren't losing any functionality in our switch from Templafy.
Reasons for switching to empower
At the time Templafy was more template oriented and the ability to search slides and presentations at the same time was not possible. empower had stronger search ability.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great review. We will be happy to take up the idea of better reporting. Feel free to contact us if you need any support in the form of training.
Replied September 2023
Sven
Management Consulting, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
Zwei Jahre empower - IT-Admin Review
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! :)
PROSMittlerweile 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.
CONSLeider 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.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your kind review! We highly value your feedback and will continue to work on it. Looking forward to working with you in the future!
Replied August 2023
Lars
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
A game Changer for Brand and Powerpoint usage in efficiency and quality.
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.
PROSEasy to use for all employees after a minimum of training improves quality and efficiency immediately. Smooth integration in MS Office suite.
CONSto 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.
Reason for choosing empower
because of the excellent Library function.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your positive feedback! We are happy to hear that you were able to immediately increase your quality and efficiency by using empower®. Please feel free to contact our empower® support to follow up on any issues you may have with the cloud: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied June 2023
Norman
Automotive, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Game Changer Tool for more efficiency and consistency in Microsoft Office
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.
PROSempower 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.
CONSInitially, 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.
Reason for choosing empower
empower had the most comprehensive feature set (including everything from template and slide management, branding tools and charting) and it had the most modern look and feel.
Franziska
Program Development, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
empower ist ein hilfreiches Plugin für die effiziente Verwaltung von PowerPoint-Folien
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.
CONSFür 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.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution and that you value the management of your PowerPoint slides company-wide. Should you have any specific wishes regarding documentation please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help you! We are also working on a solution regarding importing locally stored content. https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied November 2022
Mike
Automotive, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2023
empower Charts Review
Kostenfaktor, der große Treiber, dass sich für empower entschieden wurde. Alle Mitarbeiter können theoretisch mit empower ausgestattet werden bei annähernd gleicher Funktionalität wie TC.
PROSdeutlich 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
CONSUsability im direkten Vergleich zu vergleichbaren Produkten, Tool erfordert gewisse Zeit der Einarbeitung
Reasons for switching to empower
Kosten, Software Stabilität
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great feedback! We are happy to hear that you are satisfied with empower® Charts. We are interested to hear more the points you raised. Feel free to contact your Customer Success Manager to inform her and also if you would like to train more employees on empower®.
Replied July 2023
Renzo
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
empower slide at the LMB Training Academy
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.
PROSDesired feature: the Undo feature in the library management as well in the content management.
CONSA 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.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution. We are happy to hear that the tool helps you to create appealing presentations in a quick and easy way and to also to keep them up-to-date. Should you need any assistance please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied September 2022
Leon
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Empower Slides unterstützt auf vielfältige Weise Arbeitsprozesse präziser und effizienter zu gestalt
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.
CONSLadezeiten und Auswirkung auf Performance der Geräte, insbesondere bei leistungsschwacher Hardware.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! We're happy to hear that you like the different features of empower, such as the library or the layout tool. If you would like us to analyse the performance, we would be very interested. For this purpose, you can contact your Customer Success Manger or our support.
Replied July 2023
Laura
Program Development, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
A powerful tool for PowerPoint power users -- and everyone else
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.
PROSThe 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.
CONSThis 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.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your wonderful review! Great to hear that you're happy with the layout tools and the empower® library. We appreciate your input on the onboarding process. For any feature-related questions, please don't hesitate to visit our Help Center.
Replied December 2023
Daniel
Management Consulting, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2022
empower@krauspartner
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)
CONSStill 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
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution. And we are happy to hear that empower helps you in your daily proposal work. Should you need any assistance please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied October 2022
Larsen
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2023
Empower - faster slide creation and central corporate library
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.
PROSCorporate 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)
CONSThere is a macOS version, but it has less features than the WIndows version. But is is providing the same library.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the kind feedback. We're glad that you like working with the company library and the additional PowerPoint features so much. We are constantly working to bring the MacOS version in line with the Windows version. Some of the new features are already planned for the next update.
Replied June 2023
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2023
Empower powers thro presentation.
Good to have the reduced timeline to meet the management expection for delivering the presentation on projects, reporting, tracking.
PROSCost of Prod & Ease access of tech support
CONSEditing of font & its color and matching with presentation template should be auto detected and applied to working pptx files.
Reasons for switching to empower
Management has constraint over budget so opted for low cost solution
Vendor Response
Many thanks for your review! We will be happy to take your feedback into account for further improvement of empower®.
Replied December 2023
Ioannis
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2023
A very usefull software
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
PROSWe 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.
CONSMaybe some more functionalities would be great.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the great feedback! We are happy to hear that you have already saved over 60% of your time by using empower®. Ideas for additional features and functionality are always welcome.
Replied November 2023
Christoph
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2022
Application in Higher Education-context
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.
PROS- CI compliant chart creation - productivity increase - Standards - slide database - no redundancies in slides - always current status of individual slides - support for diagram creation
CONSThere 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
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are leveraging our solution to maintain you corporate design in your company and to make sure that slides are always up to date. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help you! https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support
Replied August 2022
Julian
Market Research, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2023
Tolles Tool um Präsentationen zu automatisieren - ohne Makros.
Mit empower können wir viel effizienter arbeiten und Präsentationen viel schneller auf den neuesten Datenstand bringen.
PROSMit 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.
CONSEigentlich nichts. Passt alles gut und erfüllt meine Needs.
Reason for choosing empower
Mit der empower Bibliothek kann ich den Kollegen noch viel besser die neuesten Folien zur Verfügung stellen.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great review! We are glad to hear that you are so happy with empower® and are able to work much more efficiently. If you have any issues, please feel free to contact your Customer Success Manager.
Replied September 2023