Auction Business Frank Ross on 04 May 2007 08:23 pm
HammerTap Power Package
Last week I did a brief review of HammerTap Versus TeraPeak on my Home Based Business Blog. Someone from Hammertap contacted me and let me know they’ve actually had a web-based version for quite some time:
I just wanted to clarify that HammerTap now has a web-based version. This PowerWeb version was launched last fall specifically in mind for research on the go. Users can now use any computer or IE based PDA to research their products. While this version is not sold seperately, it is included with the purchase of the complete PowerDesk (desktop) package.
At $19.95 per month, this is a pretty good value. HammerTap (formerly called DeepAnalysis) used to be a whopping $24.95 per month for the Desktop Edition. Now you can get the Desktop version along with the Web version and several other goodies.
I’ve never liked the idea of having to install software on my computer for a couple of reasons.
If it’s possible to get the job done via the web, then that is a big preference for me. In the course of my typical week, I can be on one of 3 computers and I don’t want to have to install HammerTap on all 3. I’ve got 3 computers I’m using (one of which belongs to someone else).
The second is keeping it updated - especially over multiple computers. TurboLister comes to mind. It seems like each time I use TurboLister, I have to wait for 5 minutes while it updates to the latest revision.
But one advantage to a local software product is the abiltity to easier save and retain search data. This is really important in high production researching projects because you might look at something and think, hmm. that looks ok, but I’d like to compare it to something else later in the project.
The HammerTap suite gives me the best of both worlds although I will have to test it to see if the web version is as good as TeraPeak.