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What do you like best about empower?

It helps our team to stay more organized with our individual slides and presentations. The customer service is also what makes empower special for us. We tested so many different tools and we got the most support from empower, they helped us optimize our slide design and walked us through the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

In the beginning the amount of features is very overwhelming but customer support luckily reacts very quickly to any questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had the problem of remaking the same slides and thus wasting time making the same content over and over again. THis was solved by being able to easily search content with keywords. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

empower Overview

What is empower?

empower® is a solution for Microsoft Office that elevates and streamlines working with PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook. Create properly formatted presentations, documents, spreadsheets and emails quickly. Build documents based on robust templates and building-blocks – instantly searchable in a centralized library, online and offline. Host the software on-premise or in the cloud and use it with Office 365, Office for Windows, Office for Mac, PowerPoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.

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German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

empower® is a suite of Microsoft Office add-ins that elevates and streamlines working with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Create properly formatted presentations, documents, spreadsheets and emails quickly. Build documents based on robust templates and building-blocks – instantly searchable in a centralized library, online and offline. Host the software on-premise or in the cloud and use it with Office 365, Office for Windows, Office for Mac, PowerPoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

We know Microsoft Office like the back of our hand. We have spent day and night with Office for years, getting to know its strengths and weaknesses. That is why we set out in 2005 to revolutionize everyday office life. We develop Office solutions that empower users around the world to work more easily, consistently, and efficiently with Office. In short: perform at your best and finally have time again for what really drives you. That is our mission.

One solution that replaces them all
empower® is the only all-in-one solution that empowers your productivity and brand across all Office applications - PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel. Our corporate license model allows you to empower your entire organization plus it simplifies your license management!


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empower
Year Founded
2005
HQ Location
Cologne, DE
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@empower_suite
40 Twitter followers
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103 employees on LinkedIn®

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Andreas L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Better than competitors, more intuitive and powerfull"
The software is intuitive and reduces time to really build impresses Powerpoint add-ins. I do use a lot of GANTT Charts and the product is very eas...
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4.5 out of 5
"Efficient presentation management"
It helps our team to stay more organized with our individual slides and presentations. The customer service is also what makes empower special for ...
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4.0 out of 5
"Good and efficient working"
The library and the management of master sheets
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empower Demo - empower®
empower® is a solution for Microsoft that elevates and streamlines working with PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook. Make all important content available to everyone in your company’s empower® library, make updates and distribute the latest version to all colleagues with one click. Users can bui...
empower Demo - empower® for PowerPoint
empower® makes PowerPoint more efficient and brand compliant. Create elegant, professional presentations quickly and easily with the empower® Slides add-in for PowerPoint. empower® Slides provides everything you need from a PowerPoint slide management solution in a convenient, flexible library. T...
empower Demo - empower® Asset & Template Library
Make all important content available to everyone in your company’s empower® library, make updates and distribute the latest version to all colleagues with one click. Users can build their brand-compliant documents, spreadsheets and presentations starting fresh every time, more easily than canniba...
empower Demo - empower® Layout Tools
empower® offers more than 50 Layout Tools that go beyond what’s built into Microsoft PowerPoint. Our cutting-edge Tools enable you to arrange, position, resize, and stretch slide elements.
empower Demo - empower® Manage Multiple Languages
Multinational companies can provide slides and other content in multiple languages. empower® slides enables people to switch easily between language versions.
empower Demo - empower® for charts incl Gantt and Waterfall
With empower® for Charts, you can quickly create sophisticated, professional PowerPoint charts – crystal-clear bar and line graphs as well as elegant Gantt charts and beautiful waterfalls. This powerful and easy-to-use PowerPoint add-in elevates charting well beyond PowerPoint’s native limitation...
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Andreas L.
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Head of Corporate Finance, Treasury & Tax
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

The software is intuitive and reduces time to really build impresses Powerpoint add-ins. I do use a lot of GANTT Charts and the product is very easy and delivers a great quality of charts and other office add-ins. It is kinda fresh compared to competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

The product is rather intuitive and strong. i would have loved if if org charts would be possbile too. Maybe in a further update? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making impressive graphs and presentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about empower?

The central library is really helpful to at least establish a foundation to maintain a well-organized corporate library of PowerPoint slides. The authoring tools add functionality that Microsoft failed to implement for years already (and probably never will). After moving the whole solution into the cloud the administrative effort is really small and the performance is much better. Support is good and regular updates provide more features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

A central user administration would be nice (shall be in the product soon). More insight into the history of slides would be nice. It remains a challenge to convince users of the benefits (but this is most probably not a particular problem of empower). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

The central library enables us to cooperatively improve the stack of PowerPoint slides. Everybody can (theoretically) help. There is now one single source of truth that everybody can utilize. This saves valuable time and is the foundation for the return on investment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

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 slide library and cloud hosting. Should you have any questions or ideas you like to share please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help! https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Verified User in Semiconductors
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

- makes sure, that your presentations are consistent and in compliance with the corporate design with the Design Check

- Layout Tools allow you to easily and fast create and modify slides (would no longer like to create presentations without this)

- save slides, presentations and pictures directly in the Library

- sidebar to ease access for Library, Layout Tools & Design Check Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

- starting performance with currently up to 25 seconds

- missing personalization options for user, e.g. central or local activation of features, sizes of icons [it is nice to add Layout Tools, but it would be even better to say: "I want to have feature x always displayed big"] Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

creating better presentations in a faster, more accurate and easier way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution to maintain your corporate design and that you experience the advantages of the central library. The long startup time that you experience might be due to other infrastructure problems as our startup time is usually only 2-3 seconds longer compared to the usual startup time. However in the latest version 9.0 the startup time has been massively improved. Feel free to reach out to our customer support in order to discuss ways how presentations can be created better and in a faster way. https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

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What do you like best about empower?

empower helps me finding slides much faster that have been used in previous presentations. Secondly, I can save a lot of time making presentations brand consistent. And last but not least, I can convert old presentations with a few clicks to adjust them to our latest templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

In previous versions, there was no automatic slide translation available, but that has been added recently. Thus, there are currently no downsides when using empower. However, switching back to PowerPoint without empower has become really painful ;-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering empower:

empower can be installed as on-premise or SaaS solution. However, they also support installations in the corporate cloud. This makes it much easier to get approvals internally as a lot of sensitive data can be stored inside presentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

Without empower, we wasted a lot of time every week in formatting presentations and documents. Also, finding slides from previous presentations was a big time killer and we often reinvented the wheel because we did not find the old slides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Communication & Marketing Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

- Creation and use of templates for our employees to be compliant with our graphic chart

- Creation of a library of documents and infographics to add to presentations

- Ability to add the brand's color palette

- Empower support is supportive and available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

- Sometimes it may be complicated to adapt the format between and old document to a new one

- This problem might be independ of Empower but sometimes it happens that Empower crashes, making it complicated to be graphic chart compliant for some employees

- The automatic graphic/design update is not working as well as we expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

- We succeed to develop our new graphic charts using grand color, fonts and design to all of our employees, even those who weren't used to make nice looking powerpoints.

- Empower is a time saving software should you have to create a document that is already uploaded in the library Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

Layouttools, different Designs and Master, Agenda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

Die Umstellung auf die Cloud version aber nur weil es irgendwie nicht richtig funktioniert bei Drees & Sommer. Die verschwundene Lupenfunktion in der Bibliothek. Die geänderte Darstellung der Ordner in der Benutzerbibliothek. Die verschwundene Papierkorb Funktion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

Einheitlicher Master für das ganze Unternehmen und einfacheres Arbeiten. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution and the templates that you can store in the central slide library. Should you have any questions about the cloud functionality please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Verified User in Semiconductors
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What do you like best about empower?

Rich toolset

available as on-premise solution

fast and quality customizing & adaption service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

nothing - everything is fine

some performance improvements are requested Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

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 please do not hesitate to contact our customer support - they will be happy to help! https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Verified User in Architecture & Planning
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

Slide library and tools for easier editing of presentations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

the current technical problems after the updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

The provision of ready-made slides in a slide library. Applications hidden in PowerPoint are faster to run with empower tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

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 slide library. We are constantly working on emerging bugs. If you have any concerns or comments regarding updates please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support

Verified User in Financial Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

The library and the management of master sheets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

Nothing, i'm happy with all the features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to use our corporate design rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

Thank you for your feedback. We are very pleased that you are satisfied with our solution and that you value the library functionality. If 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

Verified User in Real Estate
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about empower?

The empower toolbar. You can quickly create appealing presentations with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about empower?

The bugs that often appear with the updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is empower solving and how is that benefiting you?

The empower library provides all colleagues with important slides and complete presentations in our corporate design and thus ensures an appealing and uniform external appearance. Saves a lot of time, nerves --> money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Veronika Philipp of empower

Thank you for your feedback. We are glad to hear that empower helps you to create unified presentation efficiently and easily. Should you have any questions about updates please do not hesitate to contact our customer support: https://www.empowersuite.com/en/knowledge/support