Data Quadrant Awards 2024

Desktop Publishing

SoftwareReviews names Canva for Teams, Adobe InDesign, CorelDRAW, and PDFelement as Desktop Publishing Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Desktop Publishing

Data Quadrant

Data Quadrants are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional "magical" components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.

The SoftwareReviews Data Quadrant evaluates and ranks products based on feedback from IT and business professionals. The placement of a software in the Data Quadrant indicates its relative ranking as well as its categorization.

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A thorough evaluation and ranking of all software in an individual category to compare software across every dimension.

user satisfaction rankings
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vendor capability comparisons
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business value scores
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individual feature evaluations
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emotional connection to products

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Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

173Reviews

Canva

Canva for Teams

Create on-brand marketing and internal content with our customizable and integrated design tool. Canva for Enterprise is ideal for growing teams who need all the productivity and smart design features of Canva Pro with advanced controls to collaborate and publish on-brand designs at scale.

9.0

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+94

Emotional
Footprint

91%

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148Reviews

Adobe Systems

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the industry-leading layout and page design software for print and digital media. Create beautiful graphic designs with typography from the world’s top foundries and imagery from Adobe Stock. Quickly share content and feedback in PDF. Easily manage production with Adobe Experience Manager. InDesign has everything you need to create and publish books, digital magazines, eBooks, posters, interactive PDFs, and more.

8.7

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+87

Emotional
Footprint

89%

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33Reviews

Alludo

CorelDRAW

Corel Corporation is a Canadian software company specializing in software for graphics processing.

8.3

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+90

Emotional
Footprint

87%

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28Reviews

Wondershare Technology

PDFelement

It’s never been easier to edit any text, images, pages, links, backgrounds, watermarks, headers and footers on your PDF, exactly like you would on a word document. You can even fix typos, rearrange pages, crop or swap a photo.

8.1

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+86

Emotional
Footprint

90%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Affinity Publisher

Breadth of Features

CorelDRAW

Business Value Created

PDFelement

Ease of Customization

VistaCreate

Ease of Data Integration

VistaCreate

Ease of IT Administration

Affinity Publisher

Ease of Implementation

Affinity Publisher

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Affinity Publisher

Quality of Features

PDFelement

Usability and Intuitiveness

PDFelement

Vendor Support

VistaCreate

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Affinity Publisher

Breadth of Features

CorelDRAW

Business Value Created

PDFelement

Ease of Customization

VistaCreate

Ease of Data Integration

VistaCreate

Ease of IT Administration

Affinity Publisher

Ease of Implementation

Affinity Publisher

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Affinity Publisher

Quality of Features

PDFelement

Usability and Intuitiveness

PDFelement

Vendor Support

VistaCreate

Other Evaluated Vendors

13Reviews

VistaCreate

VistaCreate (formerly Crello) is a new visual editor that simplifies the design process for everyone. It’s an easy solution that eliminates the need for complex design tools to create visuals. Now, you can create your own designs in just a few clicks. Choose your format, pick a template and customize it - 3 easy steps to an outstanding design.

7.8

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+99

Emotional
Footprint

88%

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12Reviews

Serif

Affinity Publisher

Optimised for the latest tech on Windows and Mac – and chosen by Apple as its Mac App of the Year – Affinity Publisher is the next generation of professional publishing software. From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mock-ups and more, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

7.8

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+94

Emotional
Footprint

85%

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13Reviews

Lucid Software Inc.

Marq (formerly lucidpress)

Turn any design into a branded template for teams to customize their own content without losing brand control. Less production design, more time for strategic creative.

7.5

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+87

Emotional
Footprint

87%

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42Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Publisher

Precisely layout and style text, pictures, borders, calendars, and more. In Publisher everything you add stays exactly the way you’ve designed it, in print, online, or in an email. Create everything from simple greeting cards and labels to professional newsletters and marketing materials using Publisher’s wide range of pre-designed templates. Share pixel-perfect printouts, send professional-quality email publications, or export to industry-standard non-editable formats.

7.4

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+74

Emotional
Footprint

79%

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26Reviews

Apple

Pages

Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create stunning documents, and comes included with most Apple devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together from anywhere, whether they’re on Mac, iPad or iPhone, or using a PC.

7.4

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+82

Emotional
Footprint

79%

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24Reviews

Quark

QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress is a page layout and graphic design software. It lets anyone create and publish rich, compelling materials for print, web, e-readers, tablets and other digital media. With its professional design features, QuarkXPress is the must-have software for in-house, agency and independent designers.

7.0

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+67

Emotional
Footprint

82%

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For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.

SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.