Host Analytics Teams With Industry Analyst Barry Wilderman on Budgeting and Forecasting in the Cloud Webinar

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 25, 2012) - Host Analytics, the leader in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it is hosting a free webinar with veteran industry analyst Barry Wilderman, president of Wilderman Associates, focused on Budgeting and Forecasting in the Cloud. The session will draw findings from Wilderman's new white paper "Selecting Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Software," sponsored by Host Analytics.

The webinar will examine best practices for making corporate budgeting more effective and more efficient. The discussion will explore the key dimensions of time, cost and benefits, before moving on to the first step of a software selection approach. Key insight on cloud technology, and its benefits in terms of compressing time and increasing agility, will also be provided.

Attendees will learn:

• How to integrate TCO, time to benefits and quantifiable benefits into the buying process;
• How to improve the overall "business of budgeting";
• Based on an improved budgeting methodology, how to be a smart software buyer;
• How cloud technology can change the game for smart buying.

Who:
Barry Wilderman, Wilderman Associates
Kelly Battles, CFO of Host Analytics

When:
Wednesday, August 1^st
9:00 a.m. PT

Where:
To register for this free webinar, go to: http://ow.ly/crtA0
A replay will be available following the live event at: http://ow.ly/ctBgK

Barry Wilderman's new white paper, titled "Selecting Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Software" considers numerous studies of EPM and other business applications. Learn the three metrics driving the selection process by accessing the white paper at: http://ow.ly/ctBaL

Host Analytics is one of Silicon Valley's fastest growing cloud companies. The company delivers the first and only complete suite of cloud CPM and business analytics applications to help finance executives drive faster and smarter decisions throughout their organizations. Host Analytics' technology covers planning, budgeting, scorecarding, financial consolidation and reporting.

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About Host Analytics
Host Analytics is the #1 cloud corporate performance management company, providing the only complete suite for finance. Host Analytics helps organizations make better operational and financial decisions by streamlining and automating their consolidations, planning and reporting processes.

Over the span of a decade, Host Analytics has gone from pioneer to leader with their deep product functionality, world-class team and broad partner ecosystem. Thanks to the cloud, customers enjoy low costs, low risk and fast results that give them an edge and helps Finance gain greater influence in setting business strategy and operational priorities. Host Analytics is:

• 1st cloud corporate performance management solution;
• 1st to deliver external data integration;
• 1st to deliver a business analytics application built for finance in the cloud.

Host Analytics serves midsize to large customer organizations, including AT&T, Groupon, Crocs, Thule, Otis Spunkmeyer and Schumacher. The company has received on-going industry recognition and was most recently recognized by AlwaysOn for the OnDemand 100 and Global 250 Top Private Companies Awards and by Network Products Guide for its Hot Company Award.

For additional information, visit http://www.hostanalytics.com or join the conversation at www.twitter.com/host_analytics.