Cost effective demonstration and training labs in the cloud

Today’s software solutions are more complex than ever and delivering demonstration and training scenarios in a purely recorded form is often not enough to fully engage or convince an audience. It is at these times that it becomes necessary to introduce live solution showcases.

Creating demonstration or training environments is a time-consuming business, and ideally plans should be made for the mid- to long-term. These plans should include the content of the solution lab and how you will deliver the lab to your clients. Through our partnership with one of the industries leading cloud-hosting organisations, Skytap, we are able to provide organisations with a flexible and scalable solution for delivering remote demonstration and training labs.

Demonstrating virtually anything

A significant amount of time is often taken up with pre-sales staff developing bespoke demonstrations for every single client they visit. Not only is this inefficient, it can also mean that different messages are presented with each different visit, potentially confusing clients and complicating the sales process.

Within a virtual environment Demodia will help your organisation to develop a set of template demonstrations - installing and configuring software components, customising data, and scripting scenarios. These pre-configured scenarios can then be duplicated and customised for individual customer presentations, saving consultants' time and ensuring that key components remain consistent across presentations.

Furthermore, once established these templates can also be used by partner organisations or customers themselves for running proof-of-concept trials of your solution. Users can interact with your solution immediately over the Web without any need to install additional software or provision onsite hardware.

Training in the cloud

Virtual training labs offer significant advantages for training organisations: ability to offer Web-based distance learning courses, faster classroom set-up and deployment, and a true hands-on workshop experience. Students are able to log in using a simple Internet connection and trainers are able to monitor their progress remotely. At the end of a workshop, sessions can be saved ready for continuation after the next training module.

Working with leading "cloud computing" providers, Demodia will help you to develop virtual environments which are integrated into your online tutorial programme. Our team of IT professionals will take any existing lab environments and recreate them as a virtual workshop, placing it online ready for your students to access.