How Cisco builds presentations 50% faster with Prezent

“I’m not burning my energy or hours. I can just focus on the actual messaging we’re trying to get across.”

Michelle Arellano
Project Manager at Cisco Marketing

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Introduction

Cisco is a digital communications technology conglomerate that develops, manufactures, and sells high-technology services and products.

Michelle Arellano is a Project Manager, Strategy Insights & Analytics, at Cisco Marketing. Her team creates data-driven presentations to help Cisco execute its corporate strategies and objectives.

Challenge

Arellano and her team were spending too much time on the design and visuals of each slide in their business presentations.

Each time they began building a new presentation, they would have to start with a blank slate which discouraged their creative process rather than inspired it. Says Arellano, “No one ever wants to start from scratch for PowerPoints.”

This lack of a foundational starting point also meant that additional time had to be carved out to ensure all slides and presentations fit the Cisco Corporate Brand requirements.

Solution

Once Arellano’s team started using Prezent, they experienced immediate time savings. From start to finish, it takes Arellano’s team half the time it took before to build business presentations. According to Arellano, her team is experiencing an average time savings of 30 minutes per slide.

The pre-designed template slides have been an effective way to save time because they provide a foundation for creation—instead of starting from scratch—and help members better communicate and convey their ideas. Says Arellano, “The templates are set up in a way that naturally drives someone to have cleaner, more simplified slides.”

Additionally, the slide templates are created with 100% brand compliance in mind and use imagery, color hierarchy, and other design elements provided by Cisco’s Corporate Brand team. When style updates are needed, members can send a simple request to Prezent and new templates will be created.
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“It’s extremely helpful to have a place to go to get my creativity going.”

Michelle Arellano
Project Manager at Cisco Marketing

Impact

With Prezent, Arellano and her team now save 50% of their time building presentations. The slide templates provide a solid foundation for members to craft their messages, and the brand-approved designs ensure Cisco is presenting a unified brand voice in their presentations 100% of the time.

The Prezent platform also features learning modules that explain what slide designs and business storylines you should use to convey your ideas best. For Arellano, this has been a great benefit to her team and “helps us simplify the information we’re trying to get across.”

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Save time and supercharge your presentation slides with Prezent, the AI-powered productivity platform on a mission to democratize business communications.