SlideRocket vs. PowerPoint

PowerPoint SlideRocket
1. Authoring To be fair, PowerPoint 2007 does a pretty nice job of letting you create presentations. Smart Art and path animation are great and there's a good chance you've got a whole folder bulging full of PowerPoint presentations dated back to 1997. SlideRocket knows you know PowerPoint and you're comfortable with it. That's why we built a PowerPoint importer to leverage your existing library and pull it into SlideRocket so you can manage, share, secure and measure your presentation library, collaborate with your peers. Author in PowerPoint, perform magic in SlideRocket. Want Apple's Keynote quality but don't have a Mac? With SlideRocket you get all the cool transitions and effects available in Keynote plus a host of professional authoring tools and unique features only available in SlideRocket. Web content integration? Check. Extensible plug-ins? Check. Flash and video media integration? Check. Marketplace full of content and resources? Check. Now everyone can make great presentations.
2. Access anywhere With PowerPoint your presentations are created and managed by default on the desktop which means they're only available on the desktop. Don't have your PC or laptop with you then you're out of luck. Want to send your presentation to someone who doesn't have PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer? How about sending your slides from Windows to Mac or Linux? None of these are easy with PowerPoint, some are just impossible. With SlideRocket your presentations are stored in the cloud and accessible anywhere. Present online from any major browser on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS or Redhat Linux or sync your presentations to SlideRocket's offline player on your desktop and present without an internet connection. Wherever you are you'll always get the same consistent results.
3. Email Quota Ever tried emailing your PowerPoint presentation to a colleague only to have it bounce back? Email server policies often limit the file size of attachments leaving and entering the data center and email quotas can easily be consumed with large file attachments. Combined these can make sharing your presentation a real challenge. Sharing your presentation in SlideRocket is simple and effective. Set your publishing settings then copy and paste your presentation URL or email a link to your presentation from withing SlideRocket. Embedding your presentation in a web page or blog is just as easy. Just cut and paste the code from SlideRocket and you're in business. Never worry about email quota or mail server bounce backs again.
4. Security PowerPoint your slides are inherently insecure. Presentation files are sent to colleagues, customers and partners without the ability to control what happens to those files. They can easily be printed, re-shared or posted on the internet and employees who leave your company to work for a competitor regularly take a copy of your slide decks with them and you're left with no recourse to recover your corporate intellectual property, not to mention your secrets. Very few user back up their laptop hard drive regularly if at all and these are often stolen or fail and need replacing or costly recovery. SlideRocket keeps your files secure in many different ways:
  1. Your files are stored in the cloud and available to you wherever you go. Want to present without an Internet connection? Just use SlideRocket's offline player and sync your presentations to your desktop.
  2. Should your laptop be destroyed or stolen or your hard drive fail your presentations will be securely stored online and available any time you need it.
  3. While authoring your presentation SlideRocket saves versions or snap shots to ensure your work can be recovered at any time and lets you roll back to previous versions.
  4. SlideRocket lets you determine publishing rights when sharing with others. Set your presentation to public or private, establish an access password, set an expiry date, determine printing, re-sharing and full screen playback capabilities.
  5. SlideRocket tracks who's viewed your presentation, what they saw and for how long.
SlideRocket maximizes physical, file, network and user security to ensure your information, ideas and intellectual property are well protected.
5. Collaboration PowerPoint does not have collaboration features. You need to send email to your peers then compile and assemble their respective feedback from their slide decks to yours, then send the latest version and repeat until complete. SlideRocket has collaboration at it's core. From a shared library of slides and assets to collaborative authoring in real time to user rights management, secure templates, version control and web meetings, SlideRocket allows you to work in sync with your team around the world without duplication of effort or resources.
6. Marketplace Microsoft Office has a web site where you can download clipart and templates. You need to download these images to your hard drive and then you can integrate them into your presentation. The SlideRocket Marketplace provides a host of content and services you can browse and buy and integrate into your presentation. Everything from stock photography to print and delivery services to cartoons, audio and video, graphic designers, agencies, writers, editors even presentation coaches and it's getting bigger and brighter every day. In fact the future of the SlideRocket Marketplace is so bright we have to wear shades.
7. Web Meetings PowerPoint doesn't let you conduct web meetings. Sure you can use Microsoft LiveMeeting or another solution. They're expensive and they only do web meetings. No need for expensive third party meeting software like WebEx, GoToMeeting or LiveMeeting, SlideRocket lets you share your slides in an online meeting with peers around the world. And because SlideRocket uses Flash everyone has a great high fidelity experience, even with audio, animations and video.
8. Asset Library SlideRocket lets you upload and store all your assets in central library. Your slides and presentations, your audio files, your images, your movies, your
9. Updates If you're a PC user you may only have to wait another 18 months or so for the next release of PowerPoint. Mac users had to wait 4 years for the last PowerPoint update and they got a completely different version to their PC counterparts. Seriously? Yes. SlideRocket is a software as a service solution. This means that every time you login to SlideRocket you're getting the latest and greatest updates, fixes and improvements, without having to download and install software or scheduling downtime to upgrade. Because it's pay as you go, all you need to decide is how much of SlideRocket you want to use and pay for. Of course you can change your mind at any time and get more if you need it and you're not locked in, you can cancel any time.
10. Value To provide a similar solution Microsoft would need to cobble together PowerPoint, Office SharePoint Server, Groove and LiveMeeting and would still come up short in rich media integration, access anywhere, dynamic data, a marketplace of content and services, extensible architecture, security, and presentation analytics to name a few. Why spend time trying to assemble a less complete solution when you can sign up for a SlideRocket account and start making great presentations today! SlideRocket assembles an incredible array of functionality and service that provides for every part of the presentation life cycle. Our complete and integrated presentation solution is currently available at introductory pricing aka as good as it gets. Sign up for a free, individual, business trial or business account today and start making great presentations.

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