How Our Test Drive Service Works at a Glance
Colfax Experience’s test drive program aims to eliminate shipping and setup headaches by delivering global remote access to your software and hardware in minutes. Users connect via SSH, VS Code, or Jupyter while our platform automates provisioning, security, and management. With a unified dashboard for managing users and compute resources, you can effectively maximize the utilization of your scarce resource.
The Age Old Problem
Build Something Amazing
You’ve developed something groundbreaking. A solution that solves real-world problems and
excitement is at an all-time high. It’s time to share your breakthrough with real customers.
Sharing… Is Complicated
However it can be challenging to share your innovation. International shipping, customs, and distribution costs can skyrocket budgets and stall launches. These logistical hurdles threaten to slow adoption and erode your R&D return on investment.
Under Utilized
Even when your product does arrive, it can languish in shipping/receiving.
Complex software installation and integration requirements can leave samples stuck in limbo, delaying hands-on evaluation.
Opportunity Cost
Poor development experience and delayed customer feedback stalls critical product refinements and risks drifting from real user needs.
Lost momentum erodes excitement, ceding opportunities to competitors and stalling your growth.
Where We Step In
Build and Let Us Handle the Rest
With secure, seamless onboarding anywhere in the world, you’ll accelerate feedback loops and maximize your R&D ROI
Hosting
From enterprise-grade servers and high-performance workstations to compact edge devices, we host your hardware in our secure facilities and provision it for global remote access.
Development
We build bespoke automation pipelines that handle every installation step—firmware, drivers, SDKs, and demos—tailored to your hardware and software stack.
Curated Experience
With carefully curated environments, we streamline every setup step.
Users skip configuration headaches and hit the ground running with a tailored experience.
Test Drive Feature Highlight
Custom Landing Page
Your custom-branded landing will allow you to centralize marketing collateral, technical documentation, and step-by-step instructions in one intuitive hub.
Admin Dash
With the admin dashboard, grant or revoke user access in a single click, define and adjust reservation windows to match your team’s needs, and automate scheduling to keep systems available around the clock.
IAM
We manage user accounts end-to-end and provide detailed demographic insights to inform your strategies.
Custom telemetry—capturing usage patterns, feature adoption, and performance metrics is also available.
Flexible Reservation
Flexible registration lets you set custom reservation windows for your hardware, giving users precise control over their access.
Our automation pipeline handles provisioning, scheduling, and teardown in real time—so your systems are always ready.
Easy Access
SSH for secure command-line access, VS Code for full-featured IDE workflows, and Jupyter for interactive notebooks and data exploration. Industry-standard tools, less friction, more developing.