Cloud9 Analytics Integrates Goals, Bookings and Sales Data For salesforce.com Customers

Industry`s First Unified Sales Pipeline Movement Dashboard Yields New Sales
Management Capabilities
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Cloud9 Analytics:

News Facts

Cloud9 Analytics today announced Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite Enterprise
Edition, which integrates pipeline movement with goals (quotas) and actuals
(bookings) from external ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle.

In one easy-to-understand dashboard, sales leaders can identify what`s changed
in their pipeline in the previous week, month, or quarter; compare this to sales
quotas and bookings; and focus on deals most at risk or those that present the
greatest opportunity.

Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite Enterprise Edition is pre-configured out of
the box to display

* Detailed historical pipeline movement data from Salesforce
* Team and individual goals from spreadsheets or Incentive Compensation systems
* Actual bookings from customers` financial system of record.

Without Cloud9 Analytics, sales organizations are frustrated by their Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) limitations. Visibility of pipeline changes to
sales forecasts and goals is the #1 desired capability of sales organizations,
according to Ventana Research, a leading benchmark research and advisory
services firm.

Cloud9`s service delivers this information as drillable dashboards within
salesforce.com and via mobile email notifications. These notifications highlight
pipeline movement, including deferred, closed/won, closed/lost, and deal
adjustments for field sales managers so they can instantly see what`s changing
in deals that matter to them most.

Cloud9 will be demonstrating Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite Enterprise
Edition at Dreamforce 09, November 17-20 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, Booth
1018.

Supporting Quotes

"The importance of having all of this critical information in one place cannot
be understated," said Jonathan Jung, sales operations manager, Splunk. "Until
now, we have had to spend an enormous amount of time in assembling reports in
Excel and other cumbersome tools and by the time we get these reports out to
sales management, they can be obsolete. Cloud9 will enable us to not only
provide this unified view, but its time and as-of filters give sales managers
the ability to look at pipeline, goal, and actuals across any time period for
maximum visibility into the forecast."

"Because Cloud9 pipeline movement is the single most important report our
customers use to run their weekly sales meetings, we have integrated this
`pipeline waterfall` view of what`s changed in sales pipelines directly into
Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator," said Swayne Hill, CEO of Cloud9 Analytics. "It
immediately focuses sales managers on how to win instead of what to win and our
customers uniformly report that it`s indispensible to their business."

About Cloud9 Analytics

Cloud9 Analytics is the global leader in on-demand operational performance
management solutions delivered directly to line-of-business managers. Cloud9
Pipeline Accelerator Suite for salesforce.com, enables sales leaders to more
effectively manage their opportunities and teams. The result is a dramatic
increase in deal conversion rates, higher CRM adoption, and improved forecast
accuracy. Powered by patented row-level database technology, Cloud9`s
applications deliver value in just 24 hours and require zero installation, zero
maintenance and zero IT support. Cloud9's customers include GENBAND, Data
Domain, Siemens, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, and Thomson Reuters. The company is
headquartered in San Mateo, California. For more information, please visit
www.cloud9analytics.com.

Cloud9 Analytics
Don Tyler, 650-655-8723
Don.Tyler@cloud9analytics.com

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