Miro is the whiteboarding tool that other vendors talk about delivering, but never do.

At first, Miro can be quite daunting since it just drops you into a blank canvas that can expand virtually forever. Everything is fairly minimized, so it can be somewhat difficult to get started. However, the templates provided by Miro and the community make getting started fairly trivial. In addition, Miro provides a variety of training videos and a whole university experience for free, which can enable a team that's used to another tooling very quickly.

I haven't personally set up any integrations, but I've used a few, like the Atlassian JIRA integration. With this integration, my team can go from ideation with sticky notes, to planning with agile-style cards, right to creating tickets in Jira without a hitch. I've also used the upload functionality which allows uploading almost any file type and it's rendered right in the canvas. PDFs, movies, gifs, they all just work, which is a nice departure from other tools.

Miro is a terrific alternative to Powerpoint because it enables real-time interaction with presentation viewers. Viewers can share thoughts, make updates, vote, and more, which keeps them more engaged than they might otherwise be with a 1-way presentation. The features that make the tool great for interactivity are also great for asynchronous work. My team can brainstorm an entire project without ever having to join a live meeting by using comments, voting, mind maps, and other features. There are also so many templates available to kickstart a variety of projects, that it's difficult not to use the product where I would traditionally use something else, like Miro or Zoom.

Once you go through a few trainings and learn your way around, the tool is dead simple to use. Until then, it's easy to get lost or do things inefficiently.