Customer Post: Lead users - Onfolio excels

I found this article about Lead User Analysis, there are probably better ones but this should give you the idea.

http://www.betterproductdesign.net/tools/user/leaduser.htm

I think Onfolio excels at this during this BETA cycle. Onfolio has far more to gain than loose by opening up the BETA process as it has. The days of having closed BETA's and a fixed plan on a product BETA and release are over if you want to really be out in front with your software. I believe Onfolio has benefited from that. Many people are freely helping shape Onfolio and it will ship as a far better product due to this. For a small software company you automatically make yourself far bigger. Onfolio gets better feedback and insights to what their software could do. Users get the product that they want. Sounds like a win - win situation to me. I BETA test a lot and the Onfolio experience has been exciting even... if I do not find it to be my solution for information management. I have learn't a lot here and the ideas have even allowed me to expand my use of other software. Onfolio's handling of this BETA is magic and just as specially as the final software. I am not sure you could do this with Microsoft as their attitude is today but they can get away with it because of their size. Small software companies should take note of Onfolio and follow their lead to take on the big companies head on.