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Our empower® Best Practice Series shows empower use cases in short 15min videos
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Our add-in suite will make MS Office easy, efficient and brand compliant.
Our add-in for MS PowerPoint with a slide library, corporate design check and productivity tools
Our add-in for MS PowerPoint to create professional charts like waterfall and gantt charts in no time
Our add-in for MS Word to create consistent documents with all legal information up-to-date
Our add-in for MS Outlook to manage email signatures for enterprises
Our add-in for MS Excel to create highly professional Excel spreadsheets in no time
Integrate empower® with your existing applications
Learn more about our clients and their success stories
Get practical office tips, inspirational stories, and exclusive market assessments of the MS Office world
Find MS Office related guides, e-books, whitepapers, videos, infografics and more
Our empower® Best Practice Series shows empower use cases in short 15min videos
Download our global PowerPoint Study conducted by GfK and learn howPowerPoint is used in corporations
Our support is always there for you. You can also reach out to our Help Center.
Learn about our values and why we get out of bed every morning
Find out more about our very unique relationship with Microsoft
An overview of the press releases about empower
Contact us at any time if you have any questions or feedback
Find out now about the most important reasons for a career with us! Apply now!
What really eats up our time and what we can do about it.
Carried out by GfK.
How much time do company employees spend with PowerPoint?
What eats up the largest amount of time when using PowerPoint?
To what extent do PowerPoint presentations strengthen brand communication?
Presenting and conveying information – that’s the basic goal when creating presentations. An employee spends an average of 20 working hours every month using PowerPoint. But which tasks eat up the largest amount of time? How do users go about creating presentations and what role does brand communication play? A study carried out by GfK on behalf of empower® focused on the use of PowerPoint in business environments revealed a number of surprising findings.
Presentations don’t just convey information; they also communicate the company’s brand through corporate design. 40 percent of the time that people spend using PowerPoint is dedicated to formatting. That’s an average of 8 hours every month, and a large portion of this time is actually spent repeating the same work done on the previous presentation, and the one before that, and the one before that, and so on. An automation potential of 34 percent is hidden there, time that could be freed up for other tasks.
Employees spend an awful lot of time formatting – but does each detail of the presentation actually reflect the official corporate design? The results of the PowerPoint Study show why this often isn’t the case! When people (mis)use PowerPoint, they don't just lose time that they could use more effectively for other tasks, they also degrade brand communication.
The PowerPoint study carried out by GfK is the most comprehensive study on the use of PowerPoint in a business environment. More than 1,000 office workers in companies from different industries – such as, for example, finance, manufacturing, and professional service providers – contributed to the online survey.
The study covers the following topics:
The study includes not only an overview of common PowerPoint skill levels, but also potential solutions to increase efficiency.
In addition to the PowerPoint study, empower® asked companies in a global user survey, to what extent potential automation could actually be exploited with the help of the PowerPoint add-in empower® slides. The survey showed that users of empower® slides reduced the amount of time spent on PowerPoint, while significantly increasing presentations’ conformity with companies’ corporate design.
You can find more information on how you can exploit the automation potential of PowerPoint here.