OMBEA Response

What do you like best?

My job was to administer the training materials that my colleagues used to deliver. We previously had a really old voting system, which was a real pain with the software (it was really slow and used to crash all the time). The ombea software was different - very straightforward to use. Everything I needed was right there in the toolbar and because it worked in PowerPoint it made my job so much easier. The clickers were well designed compared with our older system. They're really small and light, and the batteries lasted for ages (the old system need charging up every night).

What do you dislike?

When I first started using it I wished there were more report options but then a new version was launched that added those options so I have no real complaints.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

You can download and try the software yourself from their website so it's easy to see if it's right for you. For us it was a very clear decision once we had tried this.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The voting technology gave the trainers a way of keeping their trainees engaged. It also made it much easier test their knowledge, which was important on some of the courses we arranged. And finally it made it much easier to collect all the feedback in one place really quickly because the software gave us Excel spreadsheets right out of the back of a training session. The trainers used to send these to me to put together and, since they were in Excel, it saved me a lot of time.