BrandOffice

Avantages

BrandOffice helps me easily keep the correct look and feel of our Brand when creating documentation.

Inconvénients

I have not experienced any downsides of using BrandMail.

Avantages

The fact that the product install directly to the desktop applications and i9s managed centrally is such a fantastic approach. My users never have an incorrect template and as soon as we update the content, they always have it at their fingertips.

Being able to centrally manage our content in one single, authoritative, place rather than file shares and document management solutions, is hugely effective and refreshing.

Inconvénients

There really isn't anything that I can find fault in at this stage. The users took to it right away and because of the user experience they tinkered and understood rapidly.

So no... no cons in our experience

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Avantages

Templates are always consistent and high quality.

Inconvénients

Sometimes, it is tricky to install as an add-on on Microsoft products.

Avantages

We use it as a framework to implement our business processes.

Inconvénients

As for all of these products, you need a permitted product owner.

Avantages

Re-using content used to be a big challenge because
1) personal data would be incorrectly left in
2) it would be pasted into different documents with different styles and would look yuck
3) My teams didn't know where to find great examples I'd created because it was buried somewhere in a client's folder
4) context wasn't adjustable (single vs married, children vs not)

With Brand Office, I can enter the client's name and it's re-used everywhere, the templates are so easy to create that I"ve made context specific templates, and the styles are locked in and transportable. This makes it highly efficient, saves me time and embarrasment and I trust that it's acurate. And each time I find a new way of doing things, I can just upload and everything's easily available to everyone.

So, in the end, it removes the dependency on me, and the result is that it's like i've cloned myself to more people.

It was super easy to install and integrate into our existing life because we're Microsoft Office dependent(I am the tech department!), and the customer support has been phenomenal - with the Brand Quantam team building us little help videos that we can access from our toolbar. I use it every day now, and am so excited to build it out to every area of our business.

Inconvénients

There's not much I don't like about the product

Avantages

It's nice that some processes are done automatically. It saves me time

Inconvénients

I don't think they have many shortcomings. Only some tools need to be edited. Maybe a little change to the interface would be good.

Avantages

The add-in is one of the most efficient tools i have come across, it easy to use, quick to access and allows consistent uniform of CI across all platforms. Automated templates are one of my favorite as i use it everyday and has saved me a lot of time.

Inconvénients

The only thing would be nice is to do is bulk uploads of documents in the back-end application as well as duplicating uploads for both brand office and brandmail

Avantages

BrandOffice enables us to manage the look and feel of our brand across Word, Excel and PPT. It also creates efficiencies for our business through the automation of several processes. The software truly is a game-changer.

Inconvénients

I can't fault a product that continues to teach me new and convenient ways to do things all the time. As an admin, I need to improve my knowledge of the software's capabilities to ensure that we are making the most of the product and contribute to business efficiencies even more.

Avantages

My [SENSITIVE CONTENT] has been begging me for years to have a place where she can open a presentation and then just pick and choose the slides she wants. I tried to make SharePoint folders and different templates and all the options she needed but it didn't work. Then I tried a document management system where she could search for the words she wanted and then pull things together, but that had way too many steps for everyone. BrandOffice has allowed me to make multiple templates for different types of clients and ALSO create a library of individual slides that can be added at will, and it's all in one place for easy access!

Inconvénients

At the moment, the only thing is that it can't be used by Mac or Web users (which is a very small minority of people on the team), but I know that stuff is coming!

Avantages

The latest company templates are available from within Microsoft Office applications. No more downloading and confirming that you have the latest templates.

Inconvénients

Initial setup is slow since the asset thumbnails needs to be downloaded to the local workstation.

Avantages

I knew we needed a better solution to our Word document nightmare. From a marketing perspective, you want staff to be able to produce on-brand, good looking reports and client-facing documents. Our outdated programmer-developed Word templates were just awful - the template would be impossible to share, functionality would break, staff would unlock them and then random styles would be added, they lagged terribly and took forever to open. I found BrandOffice on Capterra one afternoon while hoping to find some miracle that might make Office templates. It is amazing - it is easy to use and launch - it allows our Marketing team to provide staff beautifully branded templates across Office, with a library of all the additional assets they could possibly need to build reports and proposals. With the online backend managed by the Marketing team, we can easily make updates and add new branded imagery, content inserts and the like - at the team level - so that we know our company staff have everything they need to seamlessly build custom documents, that are on-brand and in less time. Now without the need for Marketing to do any heavy lifting such as fixing formatting or finding stock imagery - as it's all available under the BrandOffice tool bar now - Marketing can focus more on Marketing and not document production. BrandOffice has exceeded my initial expectations and I'm so happy we've implemented it!!

Inconvénients

The only 'con' I could say has nothing to do with the software and more just speaks to training staff. I was kind of surprised that once we implemented and removed access to our old, locked templates, that it became evident many staff were unfamiliar with he basic functionality of Word. And this was common across all levels of staff, so that is the one thing the implementation team has been trying to address through tutorials and training. The software is really user-friendly from both an amin and user perspective. We had amazing support from BrandOffice for implementation and during the process of building out, I become more aware of the gaps in my own knowledge for setting up functionality in Word (in all honesty, I'm a graphic designer and live in Adobe so never had a need). So that would be the one thing as a heads up if you will, change management and tutorials are your best friends before and during roll out.

Avantages

The software has been very useful in terms of improving myself and achieving more efficient and organizational work. Also, I have created good time savings many times thanks to many of its features.

Inconvénients

I have not encountered a feature that would really harm myself or that I did not like in this product that I have been using for a while.

Avantages

We use it for standardized legal templates. The templates are all in one centralized source. Update once and it’s across the organization. Now everyone has access to the same high quality, correctly branded and formatted legal documents. Generated with a click.

Inconvénients

Whatever issues we had, which were minor, were quickly sorted out with the developers

Avantages

easy access to prepopulated templates with CI that makes workflow so much better

Inconvénients

there is nothing to dislike about the product

Avantages

The ease of use when needing templates is exemplary. It is easy to update and upload templates as an administrator and at the click of a button being able to deploy all the new templates to all users, thereby guaranteeing that all users have the latest and greaters templates and letterheads at their fingers.

Inconvénients

There is nothing I like the least :) The software is just too good to not like anything.

Avantages

I like the accessibility and the user friendly environment

Inconvénients

no complaints everything works well and smoothly

Avantages

We are using this tool to speed up the proposal-writing process with pre-defined product content blocks. It has been very helpful in ensuring uniformity of information and CI across all proposals.

Inconvénients

There is nothing I would change on the product - it perfectly meets our needs.

Avantages

Having the company Templates at your finger tips so so efficient and easy to use

Inconvénients

There was no cons with this product of brandoffice