Introductory text to explain empower Express

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Hi [Client name],

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Thank you for your request to complete the IT Assessment questionnaire. Please find attached our responses, along with the Executive Summary from the latest penetration test run on the empower Express environment.

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A note on how to read these answers: contractually, the empower Express service is provided under an agreement between our firm, Right Aligned Limited (a UK limited company — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06142630), and the client. However, the technology itself — and the policies, infrastructure, and security controls your assessment is likely most interested in — belongs to empower GmbH, a German limited company (https://www.empowersuite.com/en/) and a Microsoft Partner. empower GmbH develops and administers "empower®," the world's most-used PowerPoint content management software, which gives users access to all of their company's PowerPoint content directly within PowerPoint, hosted on Microsoft Azure.

 

Right Aligned's role for the empower Express service is as empower GmbH's design and deployment partner for clients with license requirements below a typical Enterprise account (usually 50 licenses or fewer) — "Express" is Right Aligned's offering built on empower GmbH's platform. We handle pre-sales, installation support, system training, and library administration; we do not develop or administer the underlying technology, infrastructure, or security controls.

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For that reason, we've answered this questionnaire based on the technology and policies of empower GmbH — and, as a subprocessor, Microsoft Azure, which hosts the SQL database — rather than Right Aligned's own internal policies. This is almost always what clients' IT security assessments are actually trying to evaluate, since it's empower GmbH's infrastructure and controls that determine the security of the data itself. If you'd prefer any answers specifically from Right Aligned's perspective as the deployment/service provider, let me know which ones and I'll provide those separately.​​​​​​​​​​​​