New Customers Cite Need for Solutions That Help Determine How Best to Plan for Upturn
-- Keri Brooke was appointed vice president of product marketing. Brooke joins Host Analytics having spent the majority of the last 15 years working in the corporate performance management space for Hyperion and Oracle in various roles including implementation consulting, product marketing and product management. -- Host Analytics was the recipient of a Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award from market research firm THINKstrategies. The BoSS Award program promotes cloud computing vendors whose solutions have been shown to increase sales, lower costs, improve customer satisfaction, speed operations and grow profitability. -- The Host Analytics channel business continues to flourish. Four significant new partners were signed in Q3: Microsoft, NetSuite, Oracle and Right90. In particular, the partnership with Microsoft is significant because, as a Gold level partner, Host Analytics will have faster access to the latest Microsoft technology and technical resources, enabling Host Analytics to more quickly and easily rollout functionality that help customers achieve their business goals."Finance professionals are frustrated with the traditional budgeting and planning tools," said Jon Kondo, CEO at Host Analytics. "Either they're using Excel, which is woefully inadequate for large and mid-market firms, or they've chosen an on-premise product with its high cost and painful upgrades. By switching to Host Analytics, finance executives get all the tools they need to help line-of-business managers improve profitability at the departmental and corporate levels. Our goals continue to be building the biggest and best cloud CPM company around, and helping our clients improve profits through more thoughtful budgeting and financial planning." About Host Analytics Host Analytics is the leading provider of cloud corporate and financial performance management solutions. Host Analytic's solutions help financial, line of business and departmental executives improve their budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis. Host Analytics delivers its suite of corporate performance management solutions via the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Host Analytics, a pioneer in providing comprehensive and easy to use CPM solutions, was founded in 2000 and expanded its SaaS offering in 2005 to include a complete suite of CPM solutions. Host Analytics helps organizations streamline the performance management process, align the planning process with business strategy and effectively measure performance and manage change. As a SaaS delivered solution, Host Analytics customers realize fast time to value through quick implementation of solutions, the highest levels of user adoption, effective empowerment of business users and a continuous flow of Host Analytics provided solution innovations and improvements. Host Analytics serves the enterprise, large and midsized company and public sector markets including industry leading companies like JP Morgan Chase, Procter & Gamble, Otis Spunkmeyer, Pitney Bowes, and Red Roof Inn. Host Analytics was included in JMP Securities' prestigious "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies." For additional information, visit http://www.hostanalytics.com/ or call (314) 588-2121. © 2009 Host Analytics Incorporated. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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