Item: Microsoft Publisher
Rating: 9
Author: Kristen Lysobey

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Publisher was extremely useful as we set up our medical practice. We used it extensively to construct all of our informational sheets for patients.

Pros and Cons

Affordable.
Variety of templates are useful.
Easy to use.

Spellcheck does not always catch errors in medical terms.
Does not seem to work on Apple products, which is fine for use at work, but does [not] let me work on it from my MacBook at home.

Return on Investment

Allowed us to created our own documents/educational material for patients. In previous practices I have worked we had to buy "pamplets and brochures" which were very costly.

Alternatives Considered

Not sure [why] it has a different name, but I briefly tried to create on my MacBook at home and used its version of Microsoft Word and was able to do similar things as in Publisher.

Key Insights

Do you think Microsoft Publisher delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Publisher's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Publisher live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Publisher go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Publisher again?

Yes

I can only say that it did everything that we needed it to. If we were in another business and had other needs, perhaps we would find a scenario in which it would not work? But we did not need anything complicated, just professional looking educational material for our patients.

Microsoft Publisher helped us ready our medical practice

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Publisher