Slideaware has been quietly working on its presentation management platform for the past few months. Just like ThinkFree, about which I wrote earlier today, Slideaware’s product strategy is to work with Microsoft Office apps, specifically Powerpoint. Slideaware lets you save your Powerpoint slideshows right from Powerpoint onto your online account located on the Slideaware website.
To get started you need to download and install the Slideaware plugin for Microsoft Powerpoint. Once that is in place and you have signed up for the service, you can start saving your presentations to the online account in ppt, PDF, or flash format. If you are going to show the presentation to someone online saving in flash format works the best since you can run the slideshow without bothering to install any software. Slideaware provides controls around who can view your presentations by enabling passwords for the slideshows and letting you set expiry on shares. Besides this Slideaware is building a complete collaboration solution around the product. You can search for text in slides, reuse slides, get feedback from your team members, and much more.
Slideaware has its product pricing in already in place. If you go for the free account, you get to save 50 presentations and deliver unlimited live Slideshows for the first 30 days only. For $8/month or $58/year you get to save unlimited presentations and deliver unlimited live Slideshows. Plus you get to add your own branding, color scheme during Slideshows, and stats to determine visitors and the effectiveness of your slides.
As for competition, we have Slideshare that converts ppt into flash and puts that into public view. Besides that InstaSecure and Adobe Document Center(ADC) will offer online document storage with security features, although not a Powerpoint solution directly. And than we have yet to be launched Preezo that will make sure that we don’t need Slideaware. Till that time we can stick to what we have.
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March 23, 2007 at 10:34 am |
Thanks for the write up. One correction , using the SlideAware Personal pro plan at $8 per month will allow you to save unlimited presentations.
May 17, 2007 at 3:06 pm |
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May 27, 2007 at 7:50 pm |
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