Host Analytics and Inside Info Transform Australia & New Zealand With Best-in-Class Cloud CPM and Business Analytics

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 1, 2012) - Host Analytics, the leader in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), today announced a new reseller partnership with business analysis specialists Inside Info to deliver its award-winning CPM and business analytics technology to the Australian and New Zealand regions. This partnership comes at a time when local CFOs are looking to business analytics and the cloud to bring competitive advantage and accelerate growth.

"The current market environment is constantly evolving and changing, which means organizations need to better manage corporate performance, especially budgeting, planning and forecasting. As a discrete process, like CRM, corporate performance management is particularly well suited to a cloud delivery model. It provides organizations greater flexibility, lower capital costs and fast implementations that take weeks rather than six plus months. The end result is customers fast-track uncovering business opportunity," said Stuart Barnard, Managing Director at Inside Info. "We're excited about partnering with Host Analytics as it provides our clients a unique value proposition at a time when CFOs and CIOs are telling us that their number one priority is to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage with business analytics."

An IDC poll from November 2011 of CFOs in Asia Pacific, including in Australia and New Zealand, showed IT can bring competitive advantage and accelerate growth through business analytics, collaboration tools and through the cloud as their top three priorities. Australian CIOs polled in May 2012 by IDC confirmed this showing that Australian businesses are looking to lower overall cost structures as their number one ICT priority, with business intelligence also on the list.

"Inside Info is a well-respected and accomplished technology reseller," said Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics. "Host Analytics leads the way with innovation in cloud CPM by helping finance teams make better decisions so we're thrilled to be providing our technology and watching Inside Info empower Australian and New Zealand businesses. Customers who are looking for a comprehensive, affordable financial and business analytics solution that drives fast and smart decision-making throughout the organization will not be disappointed."

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 finance professionals and is the only SaaS CPM vendor listed on Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites (March 2012). Host Analytics' technology covers planning, budgeting, scorecarding, financial consolidation, reporting and more.

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About Inside Info
Based in Australia, Inside Info transforms leading businesses to make every decision count, as an expert end-to-end business analytics and performance management specialist. Inside Info provides Host Analytics to Australian and New Zealand businesses alongside its QlikView and Microsoft business intelligence and data warehouse practices. Inside Info specializes in BI and CPM solutions that are highly functional, affordable, fast to deploy, simple to use and easy to change. For additional information, visit http://www.insideinfo.com.au.

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.