There is another problem for, I am assuming, many people on here. Giving a copy of your presentation data to a 3rd party company is horrible for opsec.
In the financing industry? Get ready for someone to take advantage of all of your investing knowledge. In the contrasting business? Get ready to be sued, or if you're working for the government get ready to take an all expense paid vacation to Guantanamo.
You need to be able to make sure that your data stays offline ALL the time. Something like this is not practical as I cannot ensure that my data will stay as secret as can be.
Fair enough, but in every instance in my professional experience where presentation data has leaked (unauthorized) - or full presentations themselves - they were sourced/obtained/provided by a former internal employee of the prior firm, or a current employee with strong enough ties to the recipient to justify the procedure.
Granted I'm somewhat biased in that a lot of the work experience I did in presentations was for public entities who had significant channels for obtaining submitted documents by all interested parties (e.g. Florida's Sunshine Law). Even with marking certain things "Proprietary and Confidential" there were judgment calls to be made about what to put in and why.
Yes, on several occasions the submitted materials ended up being used by the potential client and their current service provider (i.e. investment strategies), and with little to no recourse. Cost of doing business. Can only protect so much.
Yes, that is a good point. I had really only envisioned this as a web app: I think a web-based editor with all data offline would not be easily accommodated in the design: I'd have to advise someone with those particular needs to look elsewhere!
In the financing industry? Get ready for someone to take advantage of all of your investing knowledge. In the contrasting business? Get ready to be sued, or if you're working for the government get ready to take an all expense paid vacation to Guantanamo.
You need to be able to make sure that your data stays offline ALL the time. Something like this is not practical as I cannot ensure that my data will stay as secret as can be.
edit: Fixed Guantanamo sentence.