Customer Testimonials
“We piloted TestDrive in the UK in 2007, and the online try-before-you-buy approach has been a fantastic success. This has since encouraged us to roll out the service for many more of our core applications and it is achieving more amazing results.”
Ewan McIntyre, Digital Marketing Manager, Sage UK
“There is no-doubt in my mind that this method (TestDrive) is the future for software marketing.” Interrupt
Ewan McIntyre, Digital Marketing Manager, Sage UK
“TestDrive enables organisations to see exactly how our application could be used and the advantages it will bring to their business, very quickly indeed and enable them to make an earlier and more richly-informed decision.”
Peter Constance, Managing Director, pancredit
“TestDrive encourages more customers to conduct full evaluations of software packages and is effective for both complex and simple applications, allowing prospective customers to make faster and more in-depth assessments and better informed and intelligent purchasing decisions.”
Peter Constance, Managing Director, pancredit
“TestDrive adds a new dimension to the sales process and speeds up the sales cycle for the software developer. The result is, invariably, an increase in the number of good leads being fed into the sales pipeline.”
Peter Constance, Managing Director, pancredit
“With TestDrive, we can perform full demonstrations at mutually-convenient times and without anyone having to leave their office.”
Nicola Baraldi, Marketing Manager, STR
“TestDrive is the ideal way for small business customers to get a good feel for the features of Mamut software and the benefits that it can bring to their business.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“We’ve been delighted with the swift and efficient deployment of the Runaware environment. We have received a very good response both from partners and prospective customers and we are already starting to see some positive results.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“The feedback from the sales team has been that TestDrive is probably the single best thing that we have ever done marketing-wise – it has been above and beyond my expectations.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“When you look at the number of leads we are actually capturing from the traffic we’re generating, TestDrive is an excellent value. When you think about all the money you are spending on Google or on advertising to drive people to the site, only to lose them! Now we are not losing them so I’d say the return on investment has been good.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“Runaware is one of the few companies that offer genuine account management – they have always been proactive.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“By using TestDrive, we can give visitors to our site a very quick and easy way to experience just how effective our software is right away.”
Mark Francis, Web Channel Manager, Sage UK
“Runaware TestDrive is an excellent way to provide our prospective customers and partners with a simple method of demonstrating just how effective and easy to use our solutions for small business are. We have already noticed a significant number of web visitors are choosing to run TestDrive demonstrations.”
Wayne Schmidt, General Manager, MYOB
“Giving existing GoldMine customers and new prospects the ability to access GoldMine Premium Edition via Runaware’s TestDrive Program significantly enhances our lead generation efforts and has a positive impact on the GoldMine business.”
Jeff Moloughney, Sr. Marketing Manager, FrontRange Solutions
“With TestDrive we are able to deliver powerful demonstrations of our mapping software directly to a customer’s browser, without the need to install any software.”
Lori Stock, MapPoint Product Manager, Microsoft
“We have found the Runaware demo site streamlines the process for prospects easily taking a TestDrive on ProSystem fx Practice Management. The Runaware team is easy to work with and very responsive.”
Annie Brown, Strategic Partner Relations Manager, CCH®
“Our TestDrive Team has demonstrated exceptional professionalism in working on our project. They were prompt in returning communications and in going-to-action with any project requests. Their organization of online meetings also made it very easy to understand the changes being implemented and where we were at in our project status. It's been a real pleasure.”
Fiona Lau, Sr. Channel Marketing Specialist, Sage Software
“We were pleased with the lead generation efforts the program produced for GoldMine Corporate Edition, and we are even more excited about the potential it has to generate interest in GoldMine Premium Edition.”
Jeff Moloughney, Sr. Marketing Manager, FrontRange Solutions
“Citrix and Runaware partner in 2003 to offer customers on-demand access for online software evaluations.”
Gary Olah, Citrix
“Runaware had the software set up in a matter of days.”
Dave Jordan, Senior Director Web Marketing, FrontRange Solutions
“After proven success with TestDrive, Microsoft adds additional software offerings to the TestDrive including Microsoft Frontpage 2003 and Sharepoint 2003.”
Raj Kapoor, Microsoft
“ATX found customers try the online software more than CD's. Not only do customers try the software, they purchase it.”
Kevin Hamm, ATX, Inc.
“TestDrive reduced the sales cycle for Universal Tax Systems by 30%.”
Tom Hughes, VP Sales, Universal Tax Systems, Inc.
“Microsoft uses TestDrive to allow users to experience the upcoming Microsoft Office 2007 release.”
Dennis Bye, Microsoft
“Out of all our raw leads for GoldMine Sales and Marketing software, Runaware accounts for 41% of those leads.”
Karen Hoover, Marketing Communications Manager, FrontRange Solutions
“Weve produced a good amount of sales from the Runaware channel, so it is certainly paying off. Runaware has turned out to be extremely cost effective. Every dollar spent on Runaware generated more than ten dollars in sales. It is better than a ten-to-one ratio, in terms of sales dollars.”
Dave Olsen, COO, ATX Inc.
“TestDrive is the ideal way for small business customers to get a good feel for the features of Mamut software and the benefits that it can bring to their business.”
Nathan Bray, Marketing Manager, Mamut UK
“Runaware has been cost effective and produced more leads at a lower cost.”
Adam Nava, Channel Marketing Manager, FrontRange Solutions
“Since FrontRange put its GoldMine Sales and Marketing software online at the FrontRange web site, using Runawares Evaluation Services, the number of leads has increased by 25%. Today, Runaware is the number one lead generator for the product, generating more leads than any other single marketing activity.”
Karen Hoover, Marketing Communications Manager, FrontRange Solutions
“We are thrilled with the level of interest around the online test drive and our ability to demonstrate some of the exciting new capabilities that will be part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system.”
Dennis Bye, Microsoft
