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What empower is, in one sentence
A brand and template management suite for Microsoft 365: template management, a slide library, brand compliance, 40 plus chart types including waterfall and Gantt, slide generation with AI, and Excel linking with automatic layout adjustment.
What it is used for
- Enforcing corporate templates and brand rules in Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
- A shared library of approved slides and assets
- Chart creation in the brand
- AI slide generation on Azure OpenAI
Who typically runs it: brand, communications and IT teams at large companies; licensed by the organization, not the analyst.
What it costs
Not published; personalized pricing by number of licenses and modules. Named user licenses, annual billing in advance, minimum 50 seats for standard licensing; an empower Express option for smaller teams with monthly cancellation. Maintenance, updates and second level support included.
Source: empowersuite.com, pricing page, read 20 September 2026. Prices change; check the vendor's page before deciding.
Side by side
| empower | INSYNCR | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On the user's PC in Microsoft 365; library in the Azure cloud | On the user's PC, inside PowerPoint. Nothing uploaded. |
| Data sources | Excel linking | Excel, Excel Online, SharePoint, Google Sheets, Access, JSON, XML, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Salesforce, Dynamics, ODBC, OData, OPC, text and files, by plan |
| Binds text boxes and tables, not only charts | Excel linked objects with layout adjustment | Yes: text boxes, tables and charts bind to a cell, column or query |
| One deck or file per record | No | Yes: Snapshot, one slide or one file per record (PowerPoint, PDF, MP4) |
| Rules by value (color, hide a slide) | Brand rules, not data rules | Yes: conditional formatting and slide inclusion by value |
| Refresh for the next cycle | Update linked objects | One click, on demand, by any Viewer |
| Chart drawing and layout | 40 plus types in the brand | Native PowerPoint charts, your template's formatting |
| Brand templates and libraries | Yes, the core of the product | No library to adopt: it works inside the template you already use |
| Price, as published | Not published; minimum 50 seats | €99.99 to €333.33 a month per Automator, billed annually; Viewer €27 a month. Billed yearly that is €1,199.90 to €3,999.90 and €324. |
| Minimum seats | 50 (Express for smaller teams) | 1 |
| Trial | Not mentioned | 7 days, full access, no card |
| Does report data leave the building? | Library content, yes (Azure); report data through Excel links, no | No |
What it lacks for a recurring report
- Sources beyond Excel
- One deck or file per record from one template
- Rules by value
- An entry below 50 seats without the Express edition
Where empower is better than INSYNCR
- Brand governance across the whole company, which INSYNCR does not attempt
- Slide libraries and approved content
- Chart drawing in the brand
- Enterprise rollout and support model
Which to pick
empower governs how the deck looks. INSYNCR governs where the numbers come from. They do not overlap: an empower template with INSYNCR bindings is a branded deck whose numbers refresh from the source.
We describe empower from its own website and public documentation, dated above, and say nothing about it we have not read there. If something is out of date or unfair, write to info@insyncr.com and we will fix it.