Homerun is a presales workspace that offers one place to track, manage, organize and inform the user's presales efforts. The solution boasts users among presales teams such as AppViewX, Ciena, Starburst, Graylog, JupiterOne, and others use Homerun to increase win rates, decrease sales cycles, save time, and reduce onboarding time for new hires. Homerun is SOC2 Type2 certified and GDPR compliant.
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Origin Story: The first version of Homerun was an internal tool that organized…
Director Sales Engineering in Sales at Datadog (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose Homerun Presales Platform
When comparing different solutions, Homerun stood out as the definitive leader in our evaluation and provided benefits that directly aligned to things that mattered in our organization. Some of the things that were immediately beneficial were activity tracking, POV process and …
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Chose Homerun Presales Platform
Salesforce is too complex to navigate and keep consistency, being really time consuming and leading easily to outdated information and fragmented reporting. Excel doesn't provide any good overview or automation, and it's extremely easy to overwrite data. Heavy to load, too time …
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Director, Solution Engineering in Sales at Protegrity (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Chose Homerun Presales Platform
We evaluated Vivun before choosing Homerun Presales Platform, but ultimately, Homerun Presales Platform stood out for its ease of use and quick implementation. A major deciding factor was how Homerun Presales Platform handles POC tracking: the "Evaluation Plans" feature allows …
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Sales Engineer in Engineering at ReliaQuest (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Homerun Presales Platform
It solves a specific use case which is a home platform for Sales Engineers specifically, given we track different metrics and pieces of information this can not be more useful for our role.
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Sales Engineer in Sales at ReliaQuest (Security & Investigations, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Homerun Presales Platform
Homerun Presales Platform is head a shoulders above Salesforce from a Sales Engineering perspective. Homerun Presales Platform independently tracks deal stages, allowing SE leadership to accurately understand the technical side of the opportunity. Homerun Presales Platform …
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
It is specifically designed for Pre-sales and it's easy to maintain giving a great overview of the information that really matters to our roles. It would be helpful and a time-saver to manage calls, notes, recordings and meetings too, and even links to GDrive repositories or sharepoint
POC Management: The Evaluation Plans feautre ensures that we follow a clear and consistent process, so that we can track progress across each opportunity.
Feature Gaps: This is one of the most valuable aspects of Homerun Presales Platform. Having the ability to identify missing product features and more importantly quantify the potential revenue at risk because of them has transformed the way we interact with the product team. We can now bring data-driven insights to discussions instead of just regular feedback.
CRM Integration: Homerun Presales Platform can be syncrhonized with Salesforce, which allows us to grab the information we need from the CRM without the need to duplicate it and push anything that might be beneficial to the broader team back to the CRM.
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More flexibility in external reporting: Homerun Presales Platform provides solid internal reporting, however, creating external reports can be a bit cumbersome. Right now it takes extra effort to export data to third party reporting tools (e.g., PowerBI), however I got exceptional support from the team to be able to accomplish this task.
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Very easy to use platform, with integrations with other tools allowing data to flow between the different platforms. The real bright spot for Homerun is that it is designed with presales activities and cycles in mind, meaning it was very easy to fit within our existing presales process. Most aspects of the tool are also customizable so you can take what already works in your process and port that over to the tools provided. Within days of our initial training from the Homerun team, it became a tool that our team members use daily
Homerun Presales Platform is head a shoulders above Salesforce from a Sales Engineering perspective. Homerun Presales Platform independently tracks deal stages, allowing SE leadership to accurately understand the technical side of the opportunity. Homerun Presales Platform provides a clean, easy to use workspace where the important aspects of an opportunity are front and center, and not bogged down inside an outdates, bloated CRM platform.
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Gaining a presales-focused view of the sales cycle, allowing us to track our team's contributions in a structured and measurable way.
Improving our collaboration with the product team by giving us actual data on feature gaps and potential revenue at risk due to missing functionality. This will help drive more strategic roadmap decisions.
CRM integration (Salesforce) has reduced manual admin work, saving our team valuable time.
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