Showcase Workshop

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Creation and administration of Showcase is a breeze. If you can use PowerPoint or Keynote, then this App is like changing from a pair of sneakers into a pair of Gucci loafers. It's better.
Read the Showcase tips first! They've done the hard work. I'd recommend planning your Showcase and getting all your content (including images and text) ready before you start building. That is the hardest part! Building and updating is a breeze.

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There's nothing I dislike about the software. It does what you want it to do.

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Easy to find all the information in one place. Simple to delete and upload new content each month

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Can sometimes take awhile to upload and publish

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is a good platform for my guys to access procedures etc from

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it has been made too complicated to use for me.. adding new slide shows or notes etc has become as stated early more complicated..

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Option to create showcases then create copies to edit - this has given us the foundation for simplified templates.
Ability to use existing marketing (PDFS, Videos etc.) as well as online content to add value to our presentations and remove the need to re-creation.
The Analytics it provides into recipients viewing of showcases - Who looked at what and for how long, when etc. - this provides us insight into our clients interests and qualifies their interest in a property.

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The filing system could use some help - I would be very helpful if entire folders could be moved into other folders instead of having to move files individually. Once you have a lot of files, finding the ones to move and the folder to move them into is very difficult and quite time consuming if you need to do a major tidy up of the filing system.

Hotspot Alignment Grid/tool/guide - It would be superb if when creating multiple hotspots on a page you could either a) turn on a grid to assist with alignment, b) select mutliple hotspots and click 'justify' and choose either left, right, top or bottom and they would all align, c) there was a guide that appeared when you select a hotspot to help you align with existing hotspots like the feature in InDesign.

Moving hotspots - It would be fantastic if you could use your mouse to select multiple hotspots and move them in bulk. For example if we have created a table which is a hotspot of rows and a hot spot of columns full of hotspots for each cell of data, we'd like to select the whole table and move it instead of moving potentially 100+ hotspots individually.

The ability to highlight and change the colour, typeface, font, alignment of different parts of text within a single hotspot. For example, I'd like to create one Text Hotspot and within that have the heading, subheading, text, quote, text & legal title/disclaimer. Having to make an individual hotspot for each of these and then align them is very time consuming and difficult.

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There are a lot of pros to Showcase that work well for our business and products that we sell.
-Firstly the ease to update and alter any information as we need to is crucial for our new model releases. As well as the ability in put any information or background images we need to.
-The sharing function is fantastic for our sales network to be able to quickly engage with their customers with our uniform and relevant material.
-Showcases ease of use has been a large factor in it becoming our centralised platform for all of our sales networks information.
-Being able to Email all of our users through Showcase is also a great way to keep the brand and sales network connected with the latest information.
- Lastly and most importantly the Showcase team are always more than willing to help out with any of our issues or questions and act extremely quickly to get us a great result. They recently creating a contact tracing solution for us incredibly quickly and with everything we could have asked for.

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The only thing we have had complaints on from users is the size of the application. However this is due to us putting a large amount of documents on Showcase. Showcase also helped us by optimising the documents which helped reduce our app size. - No real cons here.

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While there are many features that I have found useful, one of the most utilised is observing the slides that are attracting the most interest. It is also great to be able to see the various disciplines from a sales team of over 100

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Integration with our existing business was great , the most difficult issue to get around was creating a more bespoke showcase which could just be due to that's the way we've always done it but I do feel that everyone customer deserves to have a more bespoke showcase

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Ease of use, stability searched for ages before finding showcase, have been using it for years now

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Hmmm nothing I can think of. Have yet to have a bad expereince

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simple and easy to use and looks fantastic when you are presenting with it in front of customers. having all the information at our hands make it easy to share the relevant information with the customer

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with the abundance of information within our showcase, sometimes it is hard to remember exactly where you are in it and sometimes may click on the wrong slides looking for information,

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Very simple to keep sales teams up-to-date and ensure that they always have the latest marcom and product information readily available when they visit customers.
Technical specs of our product frequently change and we need to make sure that sales people have the latest release on their device. We also don't want them to waste their time looking for news and downloading it. Showcase Workshop provides a phantastic solution.

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Software still has a couple of bugs (or am I the only one finding them?). But none of them - so far - was mission critical and the support team always attended cases very quickly and resolved all.

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It is an interactive presentation format when meeting with customers. it saves a lot of paper and printing, it is interactive, and it gives a techy impression when meeting the client
It is simply to tailor each client meeting, which impresses most customers.
Good thing is the simple usage at multiple devices.

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It takes some time to learn it. The drag and drop utilities can still be improved. however you can recognize continuous improvement in the development of the software.

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Quite simply - the ease of use. The marketing team controls the look and feel so the branding is always consistent and the information is fed into us where needed. The reps around the world have updated information at their fingers tips. If we have information that we need to out there, then it's simple to come up with an app and within a short amount of time, it's launched and live without having to go to an external provider.

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There are very few cons to be honest. A few things I'd like to be able to do with PDF's etc but maybe they will come over time.

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This best feature of showcase is on you have send your email containing your vehicle brochure, you get sent an email from showcase to say your email has been viewed and how many to the have gone bank and viewed. Brilliant you can gauge how interested they are in the vehicle.

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Thing I least like about this is is not set up to send videos which would be very handy to help explain certain features.

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The Showcase software allows me to show my presentation, then with a click of a button I email it straight to the recipient. It save the 'later on' follow ups and it tells me when they opened it! I have many different brands and it's so easy to describe our business - show all brands on one slide - then present either via iPad or my laptop App - to target my audience. It even shows videos and links to my website. I feel organised and professional with Showcase.

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We need to do a bit of reformatting of the presentations we're pdf'ing to customers when jpegs are involved.

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I find Showcase super easy to use and a great way to give our clients and potential clients an easy way of updating themselves on our products.

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Page layout could be a bit better (but that could be an issue at our end)

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Incredibly easy to use, intuitive even for people with little IT skills!

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No negatives from me. It does every thing that we require it to do.

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Simplicity of sharing presentation for post - meeting follow up, and ability to track downloads of the presentation and drill down to where viewers dwelled (within their downloads)

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I feel making changes to the presentation requires medium to high skill set

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Showcase is easy to use and allows us to customise and send our content to our business managers across the world. It gives us a platform to showcase all our information in one place which can be pushed to multiple devices and platforms, with the ability to work without being reliant on the internet.

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The previous version of the file library was easy to work with before.

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I love that I can share a whole live catalogue to a buyer and they look at it and they are really impressed. It instantly lifts our company into a far more professional light.
I love using and sharing showcase!

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Sometimes I don’t know where things have been filed.
I don’t have to load things so I’m not sure about the mechanics but for presenting to buyers, I have no faults.

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The front end can be used offline which is awesome for our reps on the road. Also it is endlessly customisable and super easy to use from the back end, as well as looking impressive from the front.

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We sometimes use Showcase instead of Powerpoint for presentations as we can get it looking exactly how we want it, and it's interactive! However it'd be awesome to add presenter notes to a slide (like PP has).

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Ease of use. Fantastic presentation options. Functionality.

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Trying to separate out individual slides to send.

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I find Showcase easy to use and create a seamless cohesive branding across all of our presentations for the whole team.

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There is really nothing about the product that comes to mind which I dislike, thank you. It is a pleasure to use.

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It is user friendly and easier to share and track info with customers

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It is not ideal that i have to copy a page 20 times and just name it differently so I can put in it multiple slide sequences. Very time consuming

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Showcase makes it easy to add new information and easy for our team to access anywhere, anytime.

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Nothing major. Sometimes its difficult to remove old attachments. It would be good to have a link to where they are so they can be removed as they are sometimes hard to find

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Showcase allows us to collate and represent a large range of operators. In a sales discussion it is quick to demonstrate different products using a visual tool (slideshow) plus loading and sharing of key fact sheets (pdfs)

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Usage reports need to provide an improved overview and a Select All when sharing information sheets would be great - currently have to click on every single file to send.

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Ability to incorporate a range of documents into my presentations

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None really. Some clients get frustrated that they cannot print material and with some projects we need to stay live for longer than the thirty days we have it set for - so need to send a refreshed link to parties prior to the thirty days.

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You find out when client opens email real time which is very helpful.

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sometimes crashes for short times but it is easy to use

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Ease of use. Helps my clients to understand our services easily and their cost savings

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I dont have the ability to edit the content myself

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It is simple to use and edit and gives great metrics back after sending presentations out

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It can be a little clunky trying to click into hotspots

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The huge update that Showcase received this year is well worth it! It is so much more user friendly, with small changes adding up to save me heaps of time over the week. The helpline has been so supportive and patient while i made the switch. Thank you showcase team!

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It still is a bit tricky around making slides sharable - we want to send 1 slide form here, 1 from there, and 1 from elsewhere.

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We love its functionality and the ability to keep ever-changing information updated with ease.

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the ease of uploading from PPT is sometimes a bit finicky

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Figuratively as a presenter it allows you to focus on a few relevant chapters rather presentation the whole book. A second presentation to a different group allows you to reference the same book but tell a different story by focusing on other chapters

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Difficult to print.
Difficult to email relevant sections/chapters without sending the whole book.
Would be good if you could "book mark" something that can be referred to later

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Showcase workshop helps me organize my profiles in one place and makes it easy for my customers to view content and make good decisions when purchasing my products!

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I don't use it every day and sometimes I forget to update my content...so embedded reminders would be nice.

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friendly and easy to use. Customer service and support from head office are very helpful.

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quite slow and sometimes we lost some images we already uploaded. I meant some files have been deleted itself and i needed to upload again.

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Easy to use and very valuable to me when presenting to clients.

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Nothing at all.
Great to use,no issues at all.

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Easy to use and update, able to be fully customisable for look etc

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A couple of additional functions would be handy

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Very easy to use and navigate. Clear sections ands tabs.

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I would like to see more animations transitions available to pick from or an option to add your own custom GIFs or animations between slides.

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You can be quick and concise with various points you're trying to make.
Each point is backed up with a statistic.
The new feature that allows the user to rearrange slides makes preparing for a presentation a breeze.
Very well presented from the customer's perspective.

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Before, you were unable to change the order of how the slides were setup, which they have added a feature of now.

Also, you weren't able to share a compilation of specific slides that were tailored for a customer's specific requirements which you are able to do.

A lof of the feedback is well taken into account and remedied very fast, so no cons from me.

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I enjoyed the response email once the customer had looked through the presentation in show case.

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A bit clunky. Initially, we had problems grouping the different pages in showcase. We are able to do this now.

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Showcase is a very cool product. Whilst I don’t actually present the showcases, I help customise them for some of the National Sales team and although still learning and asking lots of questions that are always answered by the team in a very efficient manner (thanks [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]), produce a very impactful product for customers to be presented and refer to. Now that I have a couple under my belt, I find I can navigate my way around quite easily. Great support by the team.

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Still navigating my way around but so far so good.

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It's very easy to use, and quite intuitive. The only difficulty was creating a new section for the presentation - whenever you create a new page it would create it in the same section.

I had to contact support to find out that you could only create a new section via hotspot.

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Missing feature: For localised content we had to duplicate the presentation many times just to change the content for one link - it would be handy if there was another way to do this.

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Ease of wireframing work and presenting is great

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File sharing is weak and needs to be improved

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It is very unique. I like the fact that we can share our slide deck directly from our iPhones.

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I would like to see the ability to use .GIF files in the decks. Also - I would like to use the link to my slide deck on my website as a product demo for visitors.

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Availability on and offline.
Option for showcase to be shared and also being able to keep track on receivers viewing

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There is no page identification in the showcase, this will assist with tags

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I like the visual layout of the site and that it works so well on mobile applications as well

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I think that some of the features should be upgraded. For example, there is no "drag and drop" feature on the folders section. I think this would be very helpful

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iPad is a great tool and Showcase works great

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The initial set up was very time consuming.

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the software looks really professional, it us easy to use and showcases our products and services well

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when we first got it, we wanted the ability to create our own slideshow within the program, this was not available but i believe it is now

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Nice presenting, easy to edit, price is reasonable

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When we have many duplicated showcases, if one page needs to be changed, we have to change every single page on each showcase.

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ease of use. great functionality to link to external websites

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lack of holding design in a template (because it is easy to move things around)