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Homerun Presales Platform

Homerun Presales Platform

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What is Homerun Presales Platform?

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…

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What is Homerun Presales Platform?

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…

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What is Homerun Presales Platform?

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 the work of sales engineers. According to the vendor, the problem was that they were managing multiple deals at any given time, jumping from customer calls to demos to POCs and back using multiple tools: a CRM, notepad, docs, spreadsheets, etc. So Homerun is built for both presales leadership and individual sales engineers, presales teams of all sizes use Homerun to achieve exceptional presales results.

Homerun Presales Platform Features

  • Supported: Opportunity Management/Evaluation Plans
  • Supported: Feature Requests & Product Gaps
  • Supported: Activity Tracking
  • Supported: Automated Alerts
  • Supported: Analytics & Reporting
  • Supported: Data Integration

Homerun Presales Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of A presales workspace and one place to track, manage, organize and inform  presales efforts.

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Homerun Presales Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
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Users of Homerun have found that the platform greatly improves their presales activities by centralizing and organizing their work, leading to improved collaboration and streamlined workflows. With Homerun, users can track opportunities for their Solutions Architecture team, keep records of sales tooling, and connect related bugs and feature requests, allowing them to easily track metrics around team performance. Additionally, Homerun helps users stay organized when running proof of concepts, or POVs, by providing a central location for internal notes, CRM links, and ticketing. Users appreciate the insight into their mid-funnel process, SE activity reporting, and capacity planning that Homerun offers, giving them visibility and transparency to leadership and sales partners.

The software also plays a crucial role in technical evaluations for partners, customers, and executives as it provides full visibility and the ability to pull reports for management. Users have noted that Homerun offers activity tracking, capacity planning, and pre-sales-specific performance metrics that were not readily available in their CRM. By keeping all work related to deals in one central location, Homerun allows others to access it, providing managers with visibility across the team. Moreover, users have found that Homerun makes the organizational aspect of note-taking, discovery notes, POV check-ins, and product feedback easy, clean, and maintainable. The software solves various business problems such as understanding cycle times, FR impacts, efficiency, win rates, and the current state. It also provides insights that were previously missed, enabling users to measure their team's overall health and effectiveness from the PoC stage to Tech Win.

Furthermore, Homerun is leveraged by users for centralizing POC management by integrating it with their CRM and ticketing systems. This integration helps streamline workflows and facilitates sharing success criteria and POC status with internal and external stakeholders. The platform's dashboarding capabilities and metrics provide visibility into reducing the cost of sale and assist in decision-making processes. Users particularly appreciate the easy-to-use Kanban board for opportunity/POV tracking and the rollup of metrics for opportunities. Before using Homerun, users struggled with scattered notes and files, but the software has provided a single location for all their data, making it easily accessible and facilitating seamless transitions between team members. Overall, Homerun is highly valued by users for its ability to centralize and organize presales activities, improve collaboration, and provide valuable insights throughout the sales process.

Collaboration Tool: Users have praised Homerun as an excellent collaboration tool, allowing their teams to work together more effectively. Many reviewers appreciated the intuitive and user-friendly nature of Homerun's platform, making it easy for anyone to start using it right away.

Centralized Data Storage: The single location for all data provided by Homerun has been highly valued by users. They no longer need to search through multiple platforms for their notes and files. This feature has improved efficiency and saved time for many reviewers.

Kanban Board for Sales Pipeline Management: The kanban board feature in Homerun, specifically designed for opportunity and POV tracking, stands out as a valuable tool. It allows users to easily track and manage their sales pipeline. Several users have highlighted this feature as one of the key benefits of using Homerun.

Missing Save Option: Some users have found it inconvenient that certain fields in the platform do not have a save option, resulting in potential data loss or extra effort to manually save their work.

Clunky Integrations: Several reviewers have mentioned that the integrations in the tool can be clunky and not very seamless. They specifically pointed out small icons used to activate edit sections as being difficult to locate and use effectively.

Feature Gaps and Challenges: Since Homerun is still in its early stages of development, some users have encountered feature gaps and challenges while using the software. These gaps may hinder their workflow and require workarounds until they are addressed by future updates.

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Leo Maguire | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Prior to HomeRun my notes and files were all over the place. Notepad word docs saved on network shares or box or Confluence. HomeRun gives me a single location for all my data that I can reference whenever I need it. The biggest issue I have found that HomeRun has solved for us is when someone is out of the office, and I have to fill in I know where the data is and can easily prepare for whatever the customer needs with a seamless transition from one engineer to another. I also love the action items. As I am meeting with the customer or entering data, I add the Action items and have my reminders in the same location as I have everything else I need for the customer.
  • Tracking Opportunity
  • Single location for Notes and Data for our Opportunities
  • Reporting on the data entered.
  • Currently working on Calendar integration
The biggest issue I have found that HomeRun has solved for us is when someone is out of the office, and I have to fill in I know where the data is and can easily prepare for whatever the customer needs with a seamless transition from one engineer to another. I also love the action items. As I am meeting with the customer or entering data, I add the Action items and have my reminders in the same location as I have everything else I need for the customer.
  • Single location for all my needs
  • Action Items
  • MFA integration
  • The reporting will enable visualization to work loads.
  • Changing engineers from one account to another is much easier now.
n/a This is our first platform to be used in this fashion.
Dan Katz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Insight into our mid-funnel process, SE activity reporting and capacity planning, visibility and transparency to our leadership and sales partners.
  • My team LOVES the latest activity tracking integration with Google Calendar - makes it so easy.
  • Before Homerun, we had limited insight into our mid-funnel. Now it's very easy to see our SE pipeline at a glance, including anywhere we are blocked or where there's concern.
  • Jira integration for Feature Requests is a great way to share field insights with our product teams.
  • As a young application, Homerun lacks some depth, especially around reporting and analytics. The next release is focused on those features and we're excited to help shape it.
Homerun is excellent for Presales teams of all sizes. It's particularly great if you're looking to grow along with a vendor, as the founders are extremely responsive and treat you like true partners. For Customer Success use cases, Homerun has some growing to do.
  • Integration with Salesforce and Jira
  • Easy activity tracking
  • Feature requests
  • Creating visibility for leadership into our mid-funnel activities
  • Providing insights into how our SE team spends their time, and supporting our capacity planning efforts
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Better tracking of team metrics and deals in flight. Homerun has made it easier to see the analytics behind this as well as give us a quick KanBan view into our opportunities:<br>'<br>- easy kanban board for opportunity / POV tracking<br>- rollup of metrics for opportunities is awesome<br>- love the integrations to hubspot for and jira to connect opportunities to connected tools and information
  • consolidated tracking
  • easy visibility
  • tool flexibility
  • integration to supporting tools is nice
  • Small edit / submit icons for editing fields
  • integrations are a bit clunky at times
  • more tool integrations
- easy kanban board for opportunity / POV tracking
- rollup of metrics for opportunities is awesome
- love the integrations to hubspot for and jira to connect opportunities to connected tools and information
  • analytics
  • opportunity tracking
  • visibility
  • better analytics
  • better visibility
  • consolidation of methods / tooling
We started with Homerun and are very happy with it
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Thanks to Homerun, we now have a solid presales process to rely on. We can directly measure our team's overall health and effectiveness from the PoC stage to Tech Win. We can also effectively communicate and triage any PoC issues with our Product and Engineering team directly through Homerun to completion. All our deal insights can be passed now to our CRM for SalesOp visbility and forecasting assistance. Dashboarding and metrics helped us gain visibility into reducing our cost of sale and also helped us gather the information that will be helpful in our decision-making process in the future.
  • Product Gaps and Ticketing with Product Engineering
  • Overall Presales Deal Management
  • Measure Health and Effectiveness of Presales Organization
  • Feature Gaps with competitors, still a new company
  • Integration with CRM
The primary business problems the Homerun Platform is helping us solve are the overall health status of our opportunities in PoC, product gaps identification and tracking, and measuring our cost of sale.
  • Opportunity Management
  • Product and Engineering Triaging
  • Reduction of time for ticket resolution for issues
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Better pricing and platform for overall opportunity management
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We leverage Homerun for centralizing our POC management. Homerun is integrated with our CRM and ticketing systems so that we can manage all workflows associated with technical presales in one place. We also leverage Homerun for sharing success criteria and POC status with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Easily integrate with Jira workflows
  • Centralize all POC notes in one place
  • Easily share status updates
  • Monitor POC progression
  • Homerun has consistently delivered the new features we've requested very quickly.
Well-suited for teams looking for an organized way to centralize their POC workflows. If you are finding yourself having personal notes in one place, your CRM updates in another, and your ticketing system being disconnected from it too - Homerun is a great tool for organizing all of that into one place. It has made communicating my POC statuses much easier and has cut down on a lot of the unnecessary time spent on consolidating information from multiple systems.
  • CRM Integration
  • Ticketing Integration
  • Status Updates
  • Utilization Tracking
  • Time savings with not having to consolidate information from multiple sources
  • Easily track utilization across POCs
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