Ideally, you would like to try out the software or application with your data, see if it works for you and then make a purchase decision. We make that option- Free trials of the product - available to any organization that wants to try out our products as well. Over the last few years, many organizations have tried out our products and made purchase decisions after their key users were comfortable with the product features.
Now, more than once we have been asked how we are able to let users try out our products so easily and why deployment of the product for a customer is so quick.
The answer lies in how we built the product, how it is hosted and how the product team has made it easy for us to make an instance available to an organization.
One of my favorite lines when I talk about the product is that "This product was built from the ground up". What that means is that the suite of treasury sciences products were designed and built - every screen, every feature built, every element of the user interface - everything was built by our product team. In other words, no other product or products were modified or customized or tailored to make this suite of products.
Starting from a blank slate gave our product team the opportunity to make the appropriate and best available technology, architecture and design choices for the business problem we were trying to solve. One of the goals we had upfront was to enable organizations to try our product out as easily as possible and adopt very, very quickly. Usability of the product was always critical and was considered every step of the way.
Secondly, everything we offer is web-based. The application is hosted on our datacenter, it can be hosted on the cloud as needed as well.
Finally, I get a notification when an organization registers for a trial and I have one button to click - the system is automatically deployed and emails with credentials are sent out to the organization that registered along with a wizard that helps them get started very very quickly. The product team has set it up such that it is that easy for me to setup an instance for a potential customer. Here is the process in a bit more detail.