think-cell & empower®: Powerful tools for PowerPoint
Looking for a PowerPoint add-in for advanced charting? Then you have probably already familiarized yourself with the popular PowerPoint add-ins think-cell and empower® Charts. In this article, we will take a closer look at the PowerPoint add-ins.
We look at the PowerPoint add-in think-cell and empower® Charts
think-cell and empower® Charts are PowerPoint add-ins that improve working with charts and make charting more efficient. Both tools help to create complex charts and graphs, e.g. Gantt or waterfall diagrams.
In this article, we address the following frequently asked questions:
- How do the two solutions differ in terms of function and price?
- Are the tools compatible with the new Microsoft 365?
- Are tutorials and support available?
- How does switching to empower® Charts work?
1. Save up to 50%* on running license costs and gain many possibilities
empower® Charts is an inexpensive alternative to think-cell: Depending on the amount of licences, it costs only half as much. Even with just one license, you save more than 50% with empower® compared to think-cell (think-cell costs € 20.90/month, empower® € 9.99/month).
Contact us to understand how you can save on your annual license costs by switching to empower® Charts.
In addition, empower® has many features that go beyond just charting. The suite supports the entire document creation and distribution process. For further information, please visit: "The think-cell alternative for enterprises".
2. Create waterfall charts, Gantt charts, and more in a snap
Creating stacked bar charts is very easy with empower® Charts. Decide whether to show sum labels, connector lines, and percentages, then format the chart and add arrows if you like. You only need a few clicks and mouse movements to create charts:
empower® Charts also provides many features for creating Gantt charts. You can divide your tasks into project phases and show or hide them as required. Even school vacations and national holidays can be displayed and integrated into your chart. If one of your projects should be delayed, it is no problem to enter the delay centrally and simply display it visually.
With empower®, you can create waterfall charts dead easy. You can even insert subtotals per data series or show multiple waterfalls in a single chart. You can let waterfall charts grow from left to right, or right to left. Both vertical and horizontal waterfall charts are also supported.
3. Intuitive and modern: Work with professional slide templates and images
Companies such as DHL, Bayer and Brose have successfully switched the majority of their licenses. The license management, the functionality, the user interface and the license costs with empower® were convincing.
In addition, the empower® Suite is not only specialized in charts but has even more to offer within PowerPoint. It supports the entire document creation and distribution process. For example empower® enables, among other things, a company-wide slide library directly in PowerPoint. This includes not only chart templates, but also numerous professional slide templates for processes, comparisons, and maps. You can also access your image library directly from PowerPoint. Or, for free, access Unsplash.
Other Microsoft applications can also be extended with empower® solutions. Whether Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Outlook: empower® makes working with Microsoft 365 easy, consistent and efficient.
4. Special partnership with Microsoft
As a Microsoft 365 add-in provider, working closely with Microsoft is a great advantage. Both PowerPoint add-ins are compatible with the Microsoft 365 package. empower® is a partner of Microsoft. As part of the Microsoft Compatibility Lab, empower® guarantees its users that the add-in is always compatible with the latest Microsoft versions and updates. In addition to working with the Microsoft 365 Developer Team, Microsoft itself is a customer of empower® and relies on the quality of the Microsoft add-in.
5. Conversion of existing diagrams
Existing charts in think-cell should not stand in the way of switching to empower®. You think of the challenge of reformatting numerous existing charts in your presentations? That's exactly what empower® Charts includes a conversion function for. Easily convert think-cell charts to match your corporate design.
Free trial version and proof-of-concept projects
You can test the PowerPoint add-ins at any time free of charge. empower® also offers inexpensive and extensive proof-of-concept projects. empower® is adapted to your corporate design, a test group receives a compact training and will test empower® extensively afterwards. At the end of the test period a satisfaction evaluation of your employees will take place to evaluate the acceptance of empower® Charts. Experienced change experts and first-class support are available to assist you throughout testing and deployment and beyond.
We hope that we could show you some more exciting facts about empower® Charts and think-cell. Here you will find more information about empower® Charts & think-cell.
Do you have any questions about the PowerPoint add-in empower® Charts or would you like to test empower®? Then contact us, we will be happy to advise you.
* Based on information from the think-cell website (as of January 22, 2025), the annual cost for 50 think-cell licenses is €9,300. In comparison, 50 empower Chart Creation licenses cost €4,500 per year (see pricing overview). For larger license volumes, please refer to our pricing overview and compare the prices with your own data, as think-cell does not publish prices for higher volumes online.
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