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Google Slides

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What is Google Slides?

Google Slides is a presentation tool that enables users to create, edit, collaborate, and present. It is free for personal use, and available to businesses via a Google Workspaces subscription.

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What is Google Slides?

Google Slides is a presentation tool that enables users to create, edit, collaborate, and present. It is free for personal use, and available to businesses via a Google Workspaces subscription.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Reviews and Ratings

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November 10, 2021

Google Slides for the win!!

Verified User
Partner in Customer Service
Insurance Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for benefit presentations and benefit guides. It has so drastically simplified our processes and it makes our presentations look so slick. Our clients are impressed. We don’t have to double check two items now. We used to spend three times as much time working up both a guide and presentation but now it’s all in one and looks better too! It also has some nice features that have been helpful during the pandemic, i.e. voiceovers.
Pros and Cons
  • User friendly
  • Easy design work
  • Converting to pdf
  • Voiceovers
  • More importable slide decks
  • Easier and professional looking Conversion to video
  • Animations
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s great in general. I haven’t seen it be a problem in most cases but some clients like the traditional programs more and the conversion to PowerPoint looks bad… they could definitely improve that and fix some of the formatting with that conversion. The conversion to pdf is great though.
Most Important Features
  • Ease of use
  • Design ease
  • Templates
Return on Investment
  • Simplified processes
  • Made presentations more accurate because of templates
  • Free within Google suite
Alternatives Considered
Skids is so much easier to use than PowerPoint and the design is much, much simpler. You can be more creative with Slides because it is flexible enough to use unlike PowerPoint. The downside is there is a learning curve because it isn’t the same old crappy software everyone else uses.
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October 13, 2021

The truth about Google Slides

Verified User
Strategist in Corporate
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Google Slides across the entire organization. It is useful for cross-department and inter-team collaboration due to its easily accessible and decentralized nature. We moved from SharePoint to Google Slides because of how difficult and inconvenient it was to complete collaborative work, which disrupted productivity. Now we use Google slides for sales, bd, product, board meetings and everything in between.
Pros and Cons
  • Allows for multiple collaboration at the same time effortlessly
  • Very easy to understand and use, so does not require any / much training for new users
  • Can easily create templates for more uniform designs and presentations across teams
  • The graphing features are some of the worst features I've experienced in a presentation software
  • Understandably due to competition, but one of the most frustrating pieces is that Google Slides does not convert Microsoft PPT slides very well, ironically impeding conversion success from Microsoft to Google
  • The diagram features are a bit limited
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited in situations where you need to make sharp, concise strategic or business presentations in a formal setting. It is useful because you can spend a lot of time to make something fancy or you can spend little time and still make something professional. It's best used when high collaboration is required to complete an important task. It is less suited for product or design brainstorming because of the limited space on slides.
Most Important Features
  • How easy it is to have multiple people editing at the same time
  • How simple and intuitive it is to make a presentation
  • That it can be simply and easily shared with others no matter how large the file is
Return on Investment
  • We're switching from microsoft to google and it has had a decently positive ROI due to reduced friction of figuring out and managing sharepoint
  • The negative impact is that it does not do everything we need for product and design so we do have to supplement it with more specific software
  • Another positive is that it has reduced the friction in easily creating and sharing PPTs during client-facing meetings making it easier for our bd, sales and product teams to make a positive impact on potential + current clients
Alternatives Considered
On a standalone basis, where no collaboration is needed, Microsoft Powerpoint is a superior tool because the functionalities are easier to use and much more robust. But if collaboration is needed, Google Slides is optimal for business, sales and strategy collaboration. It is less suited for engineering, design or product brainstorming or collaboration sessions as it is limited by space.
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