Microsoft Powerpoint

I use Microsoft Powerpoint to design executive presentations for C-level professionals. This product helps me tell stories based on data, to drive better business decisions. The shortcuts and customizations allow me to be extremely efficient in terms of time. Embedded tools like links to Microsoft excel as well as add-ins for data visualization are extremely helpful in my scope. I also enjoy the online syncing of files, so that I never lose my data and others can collaborate with me at the same time.

• Microsoft Powerpoint has allowed around 10 people to work simultaneously on an urgent presentation, reducing around 3 days production time to 1 day.

Google Slides and Canva

Google Slides, Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

I use it on a Daily Basis to create slides, explain and document topics. Use it as a presentation tool but also as documentation tool. We use it for almost everything in the entire organization. It solves our problems of visualization of business decisions, presentations, basis for everything. The scope is from easy picture editing to creative logo creation.

• Without Microsoft Powerpoint no business in our organization
• Without it no corporate life possible
• Super important for daily business

Prezi, Mural, Kahoot! and KanBo

Microsoft 365 Copilot

I'm in Advancement for education and much of my job includes writing specific, customized proposals for prospective donors to the organization. Often, the gift officers I'm working with don't have experience with Adobe, so I needed a solution to be able to design a document, lock certain elements, but leave some accessible so that a regular person would be able to edit as needed on the road. It's an unconventional use for Powerpoint, but it's also exactly what I needed. Of course, I also use it for presentations both professionally and personally.

• Increased engagement. Powerpoint allows us to create a standard template for donor proposals but change any elements for the specific donor so that they feel they're getting a totally custom product every time they interact with us.
• Staying on brand. My coworkers struggle to adhere to brand standards to the extent that we in the marketing department would prefer. Powerpoint allows us to lock certain elements in a presentation, share a prepared theme, etc.
• Because I tend to use Powerpoint outside of its intended purpose, it lacks some features that would make it more convenient for me, like the ability to export with marks and bleeds, etc. Projects can take longer because of this.

Miro, Adobe InDesign

My organization allows us to access the entire Microsoft 365 package which means we have access to Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint etc. In our organization, we use Microsoft Powerpoint to prepare presentations, helping in management strategies, communicate assessments and providing visual aids to stakeholders.

For my use case, being a Software Developer responsible for designing and developing web applications, I use Microsoft Powerpointto craft presentations for detailing objectives, communicating timelines and going over resource requirements. At the same time, it helps in summarizing technical information into digestible slides for a diverse set of audiences. Most of the Knowledge Transfer sessions which i conduct are also done using Microsoft Powerpoint.

• Helps internal teams to create and share KT sessions effectively saving time with onboarding new team members
• Helps Stakeholders and Senior Management in making decisions quickly. Things which would have been difficult to comprehend without illustrative presentations. This saves time and money
• Need to use it along with other tools specially when detailed analysis or information needs to be shared which slows down the process

Google Slides, Figma, Canva and Apple Keynote

Figma, Google Slides, Jenkins, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Salesforce CRM Analytics, Atom, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Atlassian Bitbucket, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, TeamCity, Microsoft Teams, Slack, MySQL Workbench, Apache Cassandra, Apache Maven, AWS Cloud9, Gradle Build Tool (Open Source), Microsoft SQL Server

We currently use Microsoft Powerpoint for creating both in person and remote presentations and learning material. We have paired this product with Ispring which allows us to design interactive and responsive training courses that we can present to an LMS through Scorm files. We also use Microsoft Powerpoint to plan and narrate some of our course material finally exporting this as an MP4. This has been universally easy, and Microsoft Powerpoint is a program that most of the people we work with also have access to.

• Our business would struggle without Microsoft Powerpoint
• We have spent over £2000 on add ons to increase the use of Microsoft Powerpoint
• It is easy for newer uses to pick up as it works similarly to all Microsoft products

Google Slides