Virtual Demo Lab Management System (VDMS)
The Surgient® Virtual Demo Lab Management System (VDMS) is an enterprise application that allows companies to centralize and simplify the creation, management and delivery of prepared software demonstrations and software evaluations online.
Based on Surgient’s patented
Virtualization Control Server (VCS), VDMS is the first software demo lab automation solution that enables sales and marketing organizations to directly request and access software demonstrations in just minutes. Leveraging industry standard virtual infrastructure, VDMS enables software organizations to take charge of the demo process, improve sales productivity and accelerate sales cycles.
VDMS delivers compelling value to support
all of your demo needs. Key Features
- Centralized role-based application for administrators, SE's and sales personnel
- Manage reusable demonstration environments including complex, multi-tier software applications
- Manage technology resources and the business policies that govern their allocation and use
- Manage both standard and customized demonstrations for field and inside sales organizations, proof-of-concepts, product evaluations (trials), and beta software programs
- Accurately plan, reserve, and adjust capacity to meet demonstration needs
- Automatically deploy demonstrations on a scheduled or on demand basis
- Browser-based demonstration access complements today's web conferencing tools
- Extend, save, and restore demo sessions without tying up valuable technology resources
- Configurable surveys to gather demo, software trial or beta feedback
- Out-of-the-box reports measure resource utilization
- Extensible presentation services (e.g. XSLT, CSS) enable integration with existing websites
- Automatically deploy online software evaluations (trials) or beta programs on a scheduled or on demand basis
- Browser-based evaluation access from anywhere at anytime without downloads or installations
- Out-of-the-box reporting and configurable surveys to track evaluation user statistics and behavior
- Integrate with your sales automation and opportunity management systems to accelerate lead qualification
- Subscription or license pricing available
Key Benefits
- Reduce the amount of time required to configure new demo environments
- Reduce the costs of deploying and supporting software demonstrations and product evaluations
- Increase the number and quality of sales demos delivered with the same personnel, resulting in better sales force productivity
- Increase productivity by sharing demonstrations among sales engineers and provide a more compelling, consistent and reliable customer experience
- Increase the consistency and quality of sales channel partner demos, lowering your sales support costs
- Accelerate customer trial by creating an easy-to-use self-service, automated software evaluation environment letting customers try before they buy
- Increase the number and quality of sales evaluations delivered by removing barriers to trial including lengthy downloads and software installations
- Eliminate or reduce costly CD-ROM based software evaluation programs from your marketing mix
- Better understand your customers by collecting valuable usage data captured directly from online customer trials