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I'm curious how the author's definition of "presentation software" might differ from mine:

> from a stand-alone PC application that saves files to a file share into a new collaboration-first web application. (I would really like someone to do this for presentations)

I consider that market fairly saturated: Google Slides, Prezi, slides.com...

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I would like version control, tracking and sign-off per side, common central library (change this slide and it changes everywhere - good luck doing that with OLE)... I want workflow.

Using Slides etc is like moving from Excel to Sheets instead of moving to Everlaw or Salesforce - there's no change in the workflow. Slides is just a light-weight copy of Powerpoint, 'but on the web!'.

Not necessarily for presentations. We are working on a new work-sharing and communication platform for professionals that offers document versioning , tracking, workflow and e-signature (https://airsend.io/). From our customer development interviews we have found out that the "work context" is the most important thing.

Quip, used widely at many of the Bay Area's big tech companies, is working on achieving what you're after.

https://pitch.com/

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