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empower® - a solution for central template management. All Office templates & signatures always up-to-date and available for everyone.

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Pros:

The fact that it's easily accessible and gives value for money.

Cons:

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

empower ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.5
Features
4.4
Value for Money
4.5

Likelihood to recommend

8.7/10

empower has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 71 user reviews on Capterra.

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Carsten
Carsten
Vice President in Germany
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Helps to bring order to the chaos

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

empower GmbH Response

2 years ago

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

Kelly
IP and Sales Support in Ireland
Management Consulting, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

empower for brand and library management

5.0 last year

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

empower GmbH Response

last year

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.

Borna
Head of Product and Customer Marketing in UK
Airlines/Aviation, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Getting there

3.0 7 months ago

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

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

7 months ago

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.

Norman
Product Manager in South Africa
Automotive, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Game Changer Tool for more efficiency and consistency in Microsoft Office

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Railroad Manufacture, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Empower powers thro presentation.

4.0 10 months ago

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

Pros:

Cost of Prod & Ease access of tech support

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

10 months ago

Many thanks for your review! We will be happy to take your feedback into account for further improvement of empower®.

Heil
Team Manager in Germany
Government Relations, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

my review/MWIDE

5.0 7 months ago

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

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

7 months ago

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.

Aboubacar
Crisis coordination Africa in Germany
Civic & Social Organization, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Life saver

5.0 10 months ago

Comments: This has been an exceptional alternative to other pricy products out there.

Pros:

Save time with a variety of templates customizable

Cons:

The app slow to access library with limited bandwidth

empower GmbH Response

10 months ago

Thanks a lot for your great feedback! It is great to hear that you are already saving time with empower®. We will pass on your feedback.

Nasir
IT Director in Kuwait
Architecture & Planning, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Review

4.0 11 months ago

Pros:

It supports a wide variety of chart types, including bar charts, line charts, pie charts, area charts. Charts will automatically update when data are changed, I like most about Empower is its ease of use.

Cons:

The Charts are not customizable enough. Sometimes the Chart got corrupted in the middle of the work and it requires to be done from scratch

empower GmbH Response

10 months ago

Thanks for your review! We appreciate your valuable feedback for improving the charts.

Tayla
Corporate Finance Senior Manager in South Africa
Investment Banking, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Corporate Finance user feedback

4.0 7 months ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

empower GmbH Response

7 months ago

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.

dishant
dishant
crowd sourcing in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

A good PowerPoint maker solution

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: My overall experience with empower is quite good. I have created many great presentations with the help of empower for our internal company meetings. The overall engagement of my PowerPoint engagement has improved after using the empower. I can recommend this product to businesses and individuals.

Pros:

Empower by made-in-office is a PowerPoint content management add-in which integrates with the PowerPoint and helps to create seamless PowerPoint experience for the viewers. It contains thousands of beautiful slides which can be used inside your existing or a new PowerPoint project. It is straightforward to customize empower as per your brand requirements. Empower provides master templates or simply already crafted PowerPoint templates on the startup and can be used quickly with minor changes as per the requirements. Empower provides the ability and flexibility to pick various color pickers and font pickers to create extremely appealing PowerPoint slides.

Cons:

Regarding the price point-of-view, they are distributing fewer licenses which can be not enough for the businesses. I have felt some minor lags while inserting videos and images in the slides.

Lars
Chief People's and Communications Officer in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

A game Changer for Brand and Powerpoint usage in efficiency and quality.

5.0 last year

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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

Cons:

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 GmbH Response

last year

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

Renzo
Ing. in Switzerland
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

empower slide at the LMB Training Academy

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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

Cons:

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 GmbH Response

2 years ago

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

Laura
Senior Consultant, Marketing and Communications in US
Program Development, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

A powerful tool for PowerPoint power users -- and everyone else

5.0 10 months ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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.

empower GmbH Response

10 months ago

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.

Daniel
Media Designer in Germany
Management Consulting, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

empower@krauspartner

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

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)

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

2 years ago

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

Larsen
Head of Knowledge Management in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Empower - faster slide creation and central corporate library

4.0 last year

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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)

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

last year

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.

Ioannis
Director in UK
Design, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

A very usefull software

5.0 10 months ago

Comments: 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

Pros:

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.

Cons:

Maybe some more functionalities would be great.

empower GmbH Response

10 months ago

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.

Christoph
Prof. in Germany
Higher Education, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Application in Higher Education-context

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: 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

Cons:

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

empower GmbH Response

2 years ago

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

Julia
Marketing Managerin PowerPoint in Germany
Real Estate, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Never again without empower

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Empower helps to work faster and more effectively across the company. I love the "Layout Tools".

Cons:

Unfortunately, the important function of linking to presentations and folders in the library no longer exists. I would like to see special features that simplify, make more flexible and extend the creation and editing of animations in PowerPoint.

empower GmbH Response

2 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution and that you experience the advantages of the features to maintain your corporate design and to work much faster. Should you have any questions or wishes about the library please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Julian
Business Development Manager in Austria
Management Consulting, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

All-in-one solution to increase PowerPoint output efficiency

5.0 last year

Pros:

Quick implementation of tool within company infrastrucutre and strong performance of tool significantly increases efficiency when working with PowerPoint

Cons:

Sometimes long customer support response times and limited tool functionality on Mac devices

empower GmbH Response

last year

Thank you, for your valuable feedback! We're glad to hear that you've been able to increase your company-wide efficiency with empower®. Our support team is constantly striving to improve and now responds to over 90% of all requests within one business day.

Georgi
Manager Web Collaboration in Germany
Semiconductors, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

One of the best on the market for Office accelerators

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

More functionalities especially requested by Sales&Marketing Better update and distributing function Shared-Slide Management including Updates Design Checker Automatic update notifications whenever an element was updated in the Slide Library Rights management via Active Directory (incl. AD groups) All content available offline due to a synchronized Slide Library

Cons:

- integration with other collaboration (Sharepoint, Confluence, Jira) platforms could be better

empower GmbH Response

2 years ago

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 and our brand control features. Should you have any questions about integrations please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help! https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Brizl
IT in Philippines
Marketing & Advertising, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

The Complete Package: Empower Software Features and Support

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: It is a valuable tool that has helped increase our productivity in our lab. The user interface is easy to use, making it a great asset to our operations. The centralized database allows us to access and track our data more easily, and the customizable reports are great for keeping us on track.Empower offers great help and support, which has saved us a lot of time and money when it comes to training.The software has security features that are comparable to those used in industry-leading laboratories. These features help keep your data safe.

Pros:

It is a great tool for managing chromatography data. It's easy to use and provides lots of helpful features, like customizable reports and regulatory compliance features. I especially appreciate the intuitive interface and the fact that it's fast and easy to collect and process data. Plus, the customer support is great, so if I ever have any questions, I know I can get help right away. Overall, Empower is an excellent solution for managing chromatography data.

Cons:

It has a lot of features and it is easy to use. However, there are some downsides to it. The user interface can be confusing, and there have been times when the software has slowed down or crashed. Additionally, the support organization is good, but you need to contact them more often than you'd like.

Lerato
Consultant in South Africa
Management Consulting, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Automated Presentations

5.0 7 months ago

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

Pros:

Seamlessly linking PowerPoint to Excel in real-time

Cons:

It sometimes slows down when linking multiple data

empower GmbH Response

7 months ago

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.

Thijs
Partner in Netherlands
Professional Training & Coaching, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

In the first month you will earn back your yearly licence fee

5.0 11 months ago

Comments: Like the tool a lot and also the support team is very good

Pros:

Ease to work on lay out and the use of the library

Cons:

Not all functions, such as automatic translation, are easily found

empower GmbH Response

11 months ago

Thanks for the amazing feedback! We are glad that you are so happy with empower®. If you have any questions about searching for features, please feel free to contact us.

Lode
Lode
CEO in Belgium
Verified LinkedIn User
Alternative Medicine, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Empower Express is indispensable for companies aiming to create rapid and well-organized PowerPoint Presentations.

5.0 7 months ago

Pros:

The use of empower express allows for smooth and organized creation and updating of PowerPoint presentations. It enhances productivity and efficiency significantly. Personally, I save numerous hours each month by utilizing it for training purposes. Moreover, its affordability and incredible support contribute to an overall remarkable experience. My Master Template was also recreated to operate much more smoothly and efficiently than before.

Cons:

Uploading assets such as pictures and logos can be quite time-consuming. However, [sensitive content hidden] from the Empower Express Team graciously took care of this task for me.

empower GmbH Response

4 months ago

Many thanks for your fantastic feedback! It is great to hear that empower® is saving you a lot of time in PowerPoint. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our empower® Express team.

Alexander
Product Management in Austria
Management Consulting, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Slide Management

5.0 last year

Comments: I just use empower in PowerPoint and it is well integrated in this standard app. And although we use Office 365 we had rarely any problems with any updates. Generally it saves us time in managing our slides and reduces the rate that we oversee changes.

Pros:

empower has a lot of features. Most important for me is the slide management. We have a load of different slide decks for trainings with redundant slides. We are now able to store them in a database and when we update a slide, you can easily update the same slide in other slide decks, where the slide is included.

Cons:

I would like to be able to update the whole slide but the title should be exempted (as the title would be better different, based on the flow of the slide deck). It would also be helpful to be able to disconnect a slide, when it was originally imported from the database, but changes have been made, which should be kept.

empower GmbH Response

last year

Thanks for your feedback! We're glad to hear that empower® has already saved you a lot of time. We will be happy to consider your suggestions for further improvements.