Procyon^® Office Productivity Benchmark

The Office Productivity Benchmark is designed around common tasks and usage patterns from a typical day at the office. The benchmark performs tasks with Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Outlook emails all opened at the same time. These applications are left running in the background as the focus moves from one task to another. For example, copying charts from Excel and adding it to a PowerPoint slide or comparing and moving content between Word documents.

The benchmark focuses on measuring aspects of performance that directly affect the user experience, such as providing smooth interactions and processing large tasks quickly.

The Procyon office productivity benchmark is compatible with Office 2019 (retail versions), Office 2021 and Microsoft 365 (including trial accounts).

Word

The Word test features common tasks such as loading and saving, cutting, copying, pasting and editing content and images, finding and replacing text, inserting graphs from Excel, and comparing documents.

Excel

The Excel test features typical spreadsheet tasks like loading and saving, auto-calculation, inserting data, copy and paste, sorting, using a pivot table, exporting to CSV and PDF, and using common formulas.

PowerPoint

The PowerPoint test loads a document, adds images, copies images and text, adds and previews animations, merges content from other files, saves the file, and exports to PDF and video.

Outlook

The Outlook test includes tasks such as creating emails, moving emails, searching for text within an email, saving attachments, making appointments, and backing up folders.