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…
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Vivun
Score 5.1 out of 10
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Hero, by Vivun is an AI-powered presales workflow tool designed to improve forecast accuracy by leveraging the technical conscience of every deal, and find revenue by reviving dormant opportunities. Vivun’s web app, mobile apps, and browser extensions are designed to help team members focus on what matters and better prioritize opportunities, while automating the capture of information critical to opportunity success.
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 …
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
There are some major gaps in feature functionality that I would expect for a tool that is supposed to integrate well with SFDC. For instance, notes do not format in SFDC the way they do in Hero, by Vivun. Also, sales notes do not carry over from SFDC to Hero, by Vivun, so I still find myself logging into SFDC to view important info.
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.
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.
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.
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.