Brian translates your pptx, docx and xlsx files from / to 100 languages within 3 minutes while keeping all your formats!

User story: How Brian helps with translations

Covered languages

Brian translates MS office files to more than 100 languages…  we are not gonna list them here all – but basically Brian translates files to all currently spoken languages.

Please consider that the translation quality depends on the language pair, wording and content domain.

Source

The translation from / to the following languages is performed by deepl: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian.

Transformation from / to all other languages is performed by google translate.

If you don’t state the source language, the language detection and translation might be performed by google translate.

Trouble?

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• The translation works also if you don’t name the source language, but this might have negative impact on the translation quality
• If you don’t mention the target language, your file will be translated to English
• Please attach one document only. If you need the same file translated to multiple languages, send Brian multiple emails
• Brian translates files up to 10 MB – so split your file, if necessary
• Sometimes there are pictures in the files cousing trouble – usually these are the pictures on the title slide and other weird pictures – you can split the file then or delete the pictures
• We reserve the right to restrict the use of Brian in case of excessive use

Make it CUSTOM!

We are able to customize your translation depending on your specific corporate terminology! This is really exciting! Let us talk!

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Brian converts your pdf (native and scanned), png, jpg files into any ms office format and translates it in one step!

Supported formats

• Input formats: pdf, png, jpg, jpeg, tif, gif
• Output formats: docx, xlsx, pptx
• Note: if you do not provide the output format, Brian converts the files to MS word

Covered languages

Brian translates MS office files to more than 100 languages…  we are not gonna list them here all – but basically Brian translates files to all currently spoken languages.

Please consider that the translation quality depends on the language pair, wording and content domain.

Source

Conversion:

• The actual Optical Character Regocnigtion (OCR) is provided by ABBYY

Translation:

• The translation from / to the following languages is performed by deepl: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian.
• Transformation from / to all other languages is performed by google translate.
• If you don’t state the source language, the language detection and translation might be performed by google translate.

Trouble?

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• The translation works also if you don’t name the source language, but this might have negative impact on the translation quality
• If you don’t mention the target language, your file will be translated to English
• Please attach one document only. If you need the same file translated to multiple languages, send Brian multiple emails
• Brian translates files up to 10 MB – so split your file, if necessary
• Sometimes there are pictures in the files cousing trouble – usually these are the pictures on the title slide and other weird pictures – you can split the file then or delete the pictures
• We reserve the right to restrict the use of Brian in case of excessive use

Make it CUSTOM!

We are able to customize your translation depending on your specific corporate terminology! This is really exciting! Let us talk!

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Analysing a company? Brian provides detailed analyses of 45.000 publicly traded companies with over 1.000 data points in xlsx and pptx!

Data coverage

Brian provides an X-ray with over 1,000 data points for each publicly-traded company. This is the basic structure of Brian’s analysis:

• Insights: This sheet contains business intelligence data (industry, financial commentary, key officers,…) as well as 140 structured ratios for the company.
• Annuals: This sheet contains all the data available for the particular company based on the company’s P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement as reported.
• Quarters: This sheet contains the last 5 quarters’ data for the particular company including the data for the latest quarter based on the company’s P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements as reported.

Covered companies

I cover 45,000 publicly traded companies! You can ask for Tesla, Apple, Samsung… whatever public company comes to mind!

If you want to know which companies are included, please check the complete list here.

Source

• The data is provided by Refinitiv (formerly known as Thomson Reuters)
• Copyright © 2018, Refinitiv. All rights reserved. Use, duplication, or sale of this service or the data contained therein, except as described in the AskBrian terms of use, is strictly prohibited.
• The REFINITIV Kinesis logo and REFINITIV are trademarks of Refinitiv and its affiliates in the United States and other countries and are used here under license.

Examples

Trouble?

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• I cover 45,000 publicly traded companies only – so if you get no results, maybe your company is a private one?
• When searching for company data, I need the exact company name, so please check if there were some typos in your request.
• If you want to know what companies I cover, please check the complete list here.

Make it CUSTOM!

We are able to customize the look and feel of the Public Company Analysis according to your specific corporate identity = put the research results in your templates! This is really exciting! Let’s talk!

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You want to compare a public company with its peers? Brian compares your focus company with 15 selected competitors and provides an detailed analysis of comparable numbers within 3 minutes!

Data coverage

Brian provides a peer analysis for of all over 45,000 publicly traded companies with over 70 comparable data points as well as. In each request Brian compares the company with 15 selected peers and provides also a Peers long list with 100 relevant players around the world. The result contains

• The analysis: This sheet contains 9 structured tables for each business aspect (growth, operating efficiency, financial stability) and one customizable table where you can pick and choose the KPIs you would like to compare.
• Peers Long list: The analysis contains up to 100 relevant compatitors of the focus company including country, industry tree – attribution and latest market capitalization of each company.
• KPI definitions: Each of the KPIs is clearly defined so there is no doubt how these numbers are calculated

Covered companies

Brian covers 45,000 publicly traded companies! You can ask for Tesla, Apple, Samsung… whatever public company comes to mind!

If you want to know which companies are included, please check the complete list here.

Source

• The data is provided by Refinitiv (formerly known as Thomson Reuters)
• Copyright © 2018, Refinitiv. All rights reserved. Use, duplication, or sale of this service or the data contained therein, except as described in the AskBrian terms of use, is strictly prohibited.
• The REFINITIV Kinesis logo and REFINITIV are trademarks of Refinitiv and its affiliates in the United States and other countries and are used here under license.

Trouble?

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• I cover 45,000 publicly traded companies only – so if you get no results, maybe your company is a private one?
• When searching for company data, I need the exact company name, so please check if there were some typos in your request.
• If you want to know what companies I cover, please check the complete list here.

Make it CUSTOM!

We are able to customize the look and feel of the Public Peers Analysis according to your specific corporate identity = put the research results in your templates! This is really exciting! Let’s talk!

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Are you searching for industrial benchmarks? You can ask Brian for a flexible industry report comprising 80 KPIs for 100 industries!

Covered industries

Brian knows 100 industries from 18 clusters:

• Auto: Auto & Truck, Auto Parts, Rubber & Tires, Retail Automotive
• Business Services: Advertising, Business & Consumer Services, Environmental & Waste Services
• Construction: Construction, Building Materials, Construction Supplies, Homebuilding
• Consumer goods: Consumer electronics, Apparel, Furnishing, Household products, Shoe, Tobacco
• Financial Institutions: Banks, General insurance, Asset management, Brokerage & Investment Banking, Life insurance, Other financial services, Property insurance, Regional banks, Reinsurance
• Food & Drink: Alcoholic beverages, Food, Soft beverages
• Healthcare: Healthcare products, Healthcare services, Healthcare technology, Hospitals
• IT: Computer, Computer Services, Entertainment software, Information Services, Internet software, IT systems and applications, Semiconductor, Semiconductor Equipment
• Logistics: Transportation, Air Transport, Packaging & Container, Rail transportation, Trucking
• Materials: Steel, Metals & mining, Precious metals,
• Mechanical Engineering: Diversified, General electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Electrical equipment, Machinery, Shipbuilding & Marine
• Media: Broadcasting, Cable TV, Entertainment, Publishing & Newspapers
• Pharma and Chemicals: Diversified chemical, Pharma, Biotech, Basic chemical, Specialty chemical, Agriculture,
• Real Estate: General Real Estate, R.E.I.T., Real Estate Development, Real Estate services
• Retail: Retail General, Retail Online, Food wholesalers, Retail Building Supply, Retail Distributors, Retail Grocery and Food, Retail Special Lines
• Telecom: Telecom services, Telecom equipment, Wireles telecom
• Tourism: Hotel, Recreation, Restaurant
• Utilities and Energy: Green energy, Power, Coal & Related Energy, General utilities, Oil & gas, Oil & gas distribution, Oil & gas production and exploration, Oilfield services & Equipment, Water utilities
• Others: Education, Office equipment & services, Paper & forest products, All sectors, Total Market excl financial services

Covered indicators

Brian knows 80 indicators from 8 clusters:

• Operative Efficiency: Gross margin, SG&A / Sales, COGS / Sales, Net income / Sales, After-tax operating margin, EBITDA / Sales, EBITDAR&D / Sales, EBITDASG&A / Sales, Lease expense / Sales, Margin after-tax Lease & R&D adj, Margin after-tax Lease adj, Market cap / Net Income, Pre-tax Lease & R&D adj Margin, Pre-tax Lease adjusted Margin, Pre-tax Operating Margin, Pre-tax Operating Margin unadjuted, Pre-tax Pre-stock compensation Operating Margin, R&D / Sales, Stock-based compensation / Sales, Tax rate
• Growth: Expected Sales growth 2Y, Expected EPS growth 5Y, Revenues growth 5Y, Net income growth 5Y
• Capital Efficiency: Sales / Capital, ROCE, Capital expenditures / Depreciation, Capital spending / Total assets, Net capex / EBIT after-tax, Net capex / Sales, Net PP&E / Total assets, ROE, ROE – COE, Value spread
• NWC: DIO, DPO, DSO, Inventory / Sales, Non-cash WC / Sales, Payables / Sales, Receivables / Sales
• Multiples: EV / EBIT, EV / Sales, Cash / EV, EBITDA / EV, EV / EBIT after-tax, EV / EBITDA, EV / EBITDA R&D, EV / Invested capital, Forward Price Earnings Ratio, Market cap / Trailing Net Income, PEG Ratio, Price / Sales, Price Earnings Ratio, Price to Book Ratio, Trailing PE
• Capital structure: Debt / Capital at book value, Debt / Capital at market value, Debt / debt unadjusted, Debt / Equity, Debt / Equity undadjusted, Equity / Capital at market value, Institutional Holdings
• Cost of Capital: WACC, After-tax Cost of Debt, Cost of Equity, Pre-tax cost of debt,
• Risk: Beta, Unlevered beta, HiLoRisk, Standard stock deviation, Unlevered beta corrected for cash

Trouble?

If Brian does not deliver, what you expect, consider the following:

• If he doesn’t know the industry, Brian provides an excel file, where you can find the most relevant industry and adjust it in the cell C4
• Hint: If you are not sure about the industry, just check the Peer list for relevant companies and to which industry/industries are these allocated to

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Brian provides a structured excel dashboard comprising 65+ for more than 200 countries from CIA and further sources!

Covered indicators

The indicators are structured in

• PEOPLE AND SOCIETY: Population, Median age, Population growth rate, Birth rate, Death rate, Net migration rate, Maternal mortality rate, Infant mortality rate, Life expectancy at birth, Total fertility rate, HIV adult prevalence rate, HIV people living with, HIV deaths, Obesity adult prevalence rate, Children under 5Y underweight, Education expenditures, Unemployment youth ages
• ECONOMY: GDP purchasing power parity, GDP real growth rate, GDP PPP per capita, Gross national saving, Industrial production growth, Labor force, Unemployment rate, Taxes and other revenues, Budget surplus or deficit, Public debt, Inflation rate consumer prices, Current account balance, Exports, Imports, Reserves of FX and gold, Debt external
• ENERGY: Electricity production, Electricity consumption, Electricity exports, Electricity imports, Electricity installed capacity, Electricity from fossil fuels, Electricity from nuclear fuels, Electricity from hydro, Electricity from other renewables, Crude oil production, Crude oil exports, Crude oil imports, Crude oil proved reserves, Petroleum products production, Petroleum products consumption, Petroleum products exports, Petroleum products imports, Natural gas production, Natural gas consumption, Natural gas exports, Natural gas imports, Natural gas proved reserves, Emissions from energy consumption
• COMMUNICATION: Telephones fixed lines, Telephones mobile cellular, Internet users, Broadband fixed subscriptions
• TRANSPORTATION: Airports, Railways, Roadways, Waterways, Merchant marine
• OTHER: Military expenditures, Area

Covered countries

While the main indicators are existing for up to 238 countries, some of the indicators are available for key 150 countries. The larger and more relevant the country, the larger data set is available for the country.

Sources

CIA as of April 2020. We are adding International Monetary fund numbers soon.

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Brian tells you 5 different tax rates for 175 countries.

Covered tax rates

• Corporate tax rate
• Individual income tax rate
• Indirect tax rate
• Employer social security tax
• Employee social security tax

Covered countries

Basically all countries you should need are covered. In order to increase the usability, Brian understands also multiple synonyms for the countries – you will get the right answer no matter if you say e.g. USA or United States.

Sources

KPMG tax report as of April 2020.

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You can ask Brian to convert files from PDF (native and scanned), PNG, or JPG into all MS Office formats!

Supported formats

• Input formats: pdf, png, jpg, jpeg, tif, gif
• Output formats: docx, xlsx, pptx
• Note: If you do not provide the output format, Brian converts the files to MS Word.

Covered languages

The quality of the file conversion also depends on the language of the original document. Basically, all main languages are supported.

If you do not specify the language of the file, Brian assumes English, German, or French.

Source

• The actual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is provided by ABBYY.

Trouble?

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• The conversion works also if you don’t name the source language, but this might have a negative impact on the conversion quality.
• Please attach one document only.
• Please ensure sufficient contrast of the file – also slight differences might have a larger impact.
• Brian converts files up to 10 MB – so split your file, if necessary.
• We reserve the right to restrict access to Brian in case of excessive use.

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Helpful especially on the go: you can ask Brian via email to convert MS office files to pdf!

Rationale

Some clients wonder why we have built this skill… because on a PC you can convert any file easily to pdf.

The basic use case is converting MS Files on the go – when you have access to your mobile phone only and you want:

a) to view the files without any changes / difficulties with formatting – especially in case of powerpoint and excel

b) to share a MS Office file with someone, but as a pdf version only

… and we have built it, because Brian was asked for such conversions before:) It is amazing to understand what Brian’s users are expecting.

Supported formats

• Input formats: docx, xlsx, pptx
• Output formats: pdf
• Note: we are considering to create secure PDFs as well. If this is relevant for you – let us know!

Source

• This skill is completely performed by Brian / via our infrastructure.

Trouble?

• With this skill we did not experience any troubles so far
• Maybe just a hint: if you dislike the pdf version of your excel, you will need to adjust the print settings of your sheets – pdf ‘printout’ looks exactly like the physical printout would look like

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Brian helps you to ‘erase’ sensitive content in powerpoint and word files before you share and/or archive them!

What Brian sanitizes

• Brian sanitizes MS Powerpoint (pptx) and MS Word documents (docx)
• In powerpoint files, he sanitizes all numbers, names (persons and companies he recognizes) as well all pictures (assuming these contain sensible information)
• In word files he deletes numbers, names (persons and companies he recognizes), but does not sanitize pictures and graphs

Source

When sanitizing documents, no information is leaving our infrastructure – this skill is performed internally by Brian.

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Struggling with pdfs? Brian can shrink the size of pdf files, delete pages, extract pages or protect the file for you!

Supported operations

• In order to send a big presentation per mail you can shrink the size of your pdf by up to 70 %
• You can split one pdf into two parts – You will get back two seperate files
• You can merge up to three pdfs into one file – Keep the file size in mind though
• You can rotate your pdf clockwise in order to make it more readible
• You can extract important pages – Brian will send you the extract back
• You can delete pages – You will receive the pdf back without these
• You can encrypt the pdf with a password to make it secure – Brian will send you the password along with the encrypted file

Source

We conduct all PDF acrobatics operations with our own algorythms. Your data never leaves our company – be assured that we handle your data confidently.

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You can ask Brian for turning pictures of the business cards you receive into a outlook-compatible vcf format!

Supported formats

• Input formats: png, jpg, jpeg, tif, gif
• Output format: vcf

Covered languages

Plese specify the language of the document, basically all main languages are supported. Quality of the file conversion depends on the picture quality and the language of the original document.

If you do not specify the language of the file, Brian assumes English, German or French.

Source

• The actual Optical Character Regocnigtion (OCR) is provided by ABBYY

Trouble? 

Consider the following for troubleshooting:

• The conversion works also if you don’t name the source language, but this might have negative impact on the conversion quality
• Please attach one document only
• Make sure, the background of the business card is neutral / no patterns
• Please ensure sufficient contrast of the file – also slight differences might have a larger impact
• Brian converts files up to 10 MB – so split your file, if necessary
• We reserve the right to restrict the use of Brian in case of excessive use

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Do you need cool icons in order to increase the attractiveness of your presentation? Brian sends you 50 alternatives for thousands of topics!

Covered topics

• Brian provides icons for thousands of topics.
• Please use one (“efficiency”) or maximum two words (e.g., “full moon”).
• You can specify the basic color of the icons.

Trouble? 

If Brian does not deliver what you expect, consider the following:

• Please consider that there are thousands of topics covered, but there are not icons for every subject imaginable.
• Please ask for maximum 5 icon sets per request only. If you need icons for more topics, send Brian multiple emails.
• Brian provides the custom icon sets in PNG format on a PowerPoint slide that you can adjust in size and color.
• The 3,000 icons in the basic icon selections are formatted in EMF – allowing to adjust the shape of the icons too.
• We reserve the right to restrict access to Brian in case of excessive use.

Make it CUSTOM

We are able to customize your icon set depending on your specific corporate design! Let’s talk!

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Do you need cool templates for your powerpoint presentation? Brian can send you one of 49 topic related packages with 20-40 slide templates each!

Covered areas

Trouble? 

If Brian does not deliver, what you expect, consider the following:

• Please consider, where are continuously adding new template collections
• Please ask for templates for maximum 1 area, if you need icons for more topics, send Brian multiple emails
• We reserve the right to restrict the use of Brian in case of excessive use

Make it CUSTOM

We are able to customize the templates according your specific corporate design! Let us talk!

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Do you know the situation, where you quickly need a set of equally formatted country flags? Brian can send you the flags of 260 countries in three alternative looks!

Covered countries

The flag collection includes basically all countries in the world including country clusters such as European Union.

Make it CUSTOM

We are able to customize the templates according your specific corporate design! Let us talk!

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Brian answers your Coronavirus-related questions and provides the best information sources to keep you up to date.

How it works

The logic:

You can ask Brian about the current pandemic (e.g., ‘What is the latest news on Coronavirus?’). After that, Brian provides you a list of quality information sources. In addition, he sends you a Word file with the questions and answers from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Next step:

You might then forward the attached Word file and ask Brian to translate it to one of over 100 languages. This way, we believe he can contribute to fighting the COVID-19 crisis.

Sources 

Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, we trust especially the following organizations: WHO, RKI, John Hopkins University, and IBISWorld. We might add further sources in the course of developing this skill further.

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Especially in times of Corona we thought it might be helpful to have a source of jokes. Brian provides some:)

How it works

The logic:

You just ask Brian for a joke. This is it.:)

In context:

After Brian have sent you one, you can ask for “another one”. You can ask him as many times as you want.

Disclaimer 

We are using multiple sources for these jokes. We do not validate the individual jokes, so sometimes, the jokes might be unappropriate – please excuse this. Jokes ‘made’ by Brian don’t reflect our values and what we find is right.

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Brian helps you upgrade your presentation with quotes on many topics, from many authors.

How it works

The logic:

You can ask for a random quote (default), a quote from a specific author, about a specific topic or a quote combining both specifications (e.g., ‘I need a quote from Steve Jobs about technology’).

In context:

For the next question, Brian remembers the topic and author you were interested in. This allows you to just to ask for more quotes from the same category.

Covered authors 

We have trained Brian to directly recognize 500 of the most known authors. Additionally Brian has access to a database with quotes from more than 100.000 authors – so if you spell the author right you should get your quote anyway.

Covered topics 

We have trained Brian to directly recognize 200 most favorite topics. Additionally Brian has access to a database with quotes on almost 20.000 topics – so there is quite a good chance you find the quote you need.

Source

We are using the service of TheySaidSo.

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