Portellus Inc., a provider of technology tools and services for the financial services industry, has introduced a customer readiness lab (CRL) for prospective clients, offering comprehensive testing, evaluation, and solution simulation that allows customers to make a hands-on examination of the features, functionality, and compatibility of Portellus' solutions. Portellus believes this step will help mitigate the risk involved with purchasing enterprise-level applications.

The CRL brings prospective clients together with the vendor's solutions architects, business analysts, project managers, quality control specialists, and trainers. Together, both sides are able to explore and understand the challenges often encountered when incorporating and integrating enterprisewide software solutions into existing workflows and/or legacy systems.

"Portellus is committed to ensuring prospective customers are 100 percent comfortable with the capabilities of our application to deliver the performance and the results they demand and deserve," says John Le, CEO of Portellus. "The goal of our CRL is to help ensure our prospective customers' technology expectations can be met. The lab mitigates risk by allowing prospects to visit our facilities and essentially 'look under the hood' before they purchase the solution. It's basically a try-before-you-buy approach that gives prospects a comprehensive understanding of what steps are involved to implement Portellus' solution into a simulated production environment."