Aug 14, 2018

CloudShare Releases Training Solution for SaaS to Speed Adoption and Boost Retention

With hands-on, virtual instructor-led classes, SaaS companies increase product adoption and growth

San Francisco, CA – August 14, 2018 – CloudShare, a leading provider of specialized cloud solutions for training, sales enablement and sandboxing, today announced general availability of its Training Solution for SaaS.

The market for SaaS applications is expected to reach more than $71 billion this year, according to Crozdesk’s SaaS and Cloud Startup Report 2018. As the growth of SaaS products continues, applications are increasing as complex as their on-premise counterparts, making training critical to business success. Hands-on, instructor-led training engages students and leads to more successful knowledge transfer. These outcomes help solve one of the primary reasons for canceled SaaS subscriptions: failure to adopt and use the product.

CloudShare Training Solution for SaaS is a cloud-agnostic offering supporting any SaaS application, regardless of where it is hosted. Students access with one click from any browser, without the need for set-up or installation. Instructors schedule classes and send student invitations in minutes. A full-featured instructor console enables trainers to supervise an entire class from a single screen, view student progress in real time, answer student questions and assume control to assist students as needed. Dashboards with built-in analytics enable managers to refine and improve training offerings without the need for dedicated administrative or IT staff.

“Immersive training is the most effective way to engage students and ensure they get value from newly adopted SaaS tools,” said Michal Frenkel, director of product at CloudShare. “Close partnerships with our customers have enabled us to provide the high-productivity features, ease of use and exceptional experiences that have made CloudShare the No. 1 training lab for on-premise applications, and now we’re extending these much-needed capabilities to SaaS-first companies and on-premise vendors adapting their offerings to the rapidly growing market for SaaS applications.”

About CloudShare
CloudShare helps software organizations grow revenue, increase efficiency and improve quality with specialized cloud solutions for training, sales enablement, and sandboxing for testing and customer support. CloudShare customers include leading software and cybersecurity companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Atlassian, ForgeRock, Sophos, Dell and HP.

  • " With CloudShare, we have scaled the business without having to give another thought to the platform we’re running on. "

    Kevin Streater - ForgeRock
    VP ForgeRock University

  • " CloudShare provides Check Point’s global pre-sales community with a cloud-based system to deliver engaging product demonstrations to our customers and partners. The system enables our sales engineers to demonstrate how the full set of Check Point’s Gen V technologies operate in multiple use cases – network, cloud, endpoint and mobile – with nothing more than a simple laptop and Internet connection. "

    Avi Rembaum - Check Point Software Technologies
    VP Security Solutions

  • " A few years ago... there was no training because we didn't have the infrastructure available. We now have over 4,000 environments set up during the last year and over 21,000 hours of run time so the scale is unbelievable and we just see this growing. "

    Viggy Book - Tufin Technologies
    Director of Training

  • " We started using CloudShare for our dev environments, and now we use them for our QA labs as well. We have all the resources we need – whenever we need them. "

    Amit Lohogaonkar - Alliance Life Sciences
    Lead Architect

  • " We spin up environments on CloudShare to perform regression and ongoing tests. With the API, we’ve been able to automate much of what we used to do manually. "

    Steve Rice - Smart Logic
    Senior Technical Consultant

  • " With CloudShare, we spin up ready-made templates in minutes. We are able to meet our customers’ needs more efficiently and we’ve cut our troubleshooting time by over 20%. "

    Avi Karnon - MuleSoft
    VP Global Support

  • " We can now confidently use an environment that stimulates a company with multiple sites, multiple separate networks at each site, and redundant internet connections. "

    Robert Lillywhite - Sophos
    Global Technical Enablement Manager

  • " The fact that students can access their environments during instructor-led training and on their own, has made for an effective learning experience for students and educators. "

    Shaundra Bruvall - InnoTech College
    Program Delivery Coordinator

  • " We passionately believe that practical hands-on experience is vital to aiding understanding and retention of the material by learners. I would go as far as to say that the vast majority of learners taking technical training require practical hands-on activities to form a cler understanding of a topic. "

    Robert Lillywhite - Sophos
    Global Technical Enablement Manager

  • " CloudShare is a game changer when it comes to saving time and overhead costs for class setup. I have one central administrator account from which I can add users and take care of any issue, as well as get usage reports for any student. "

    Shaundra Bruvall - InnoTech College
    Program Delivery Coordinator

  • " As we continue to move more and more to the cloud, it’s partnering with innovative companies like CloudShare that will get us where we need to go. "

    Alan Boehme - Innovation P&G
    Global Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Information Technology

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