Host Analytics Named AlwaysOn 'OnDemand 100 Top Private Company'


REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - March 24, 2011) - Host Analytics, the leading provider of SaaS-based corporate performance management (CPM) solutions, today announced it has been named a 2011 AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 Top Private Company. For its second consecutive year, Host Analytics was named a winner in the "Business Management Applications" category.

"As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, socialize, and share this information is becoming extremely challenging," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "By providing innovative technologies that help enterprises better compete in this new era of information complexity and move their data out into the cloud, the OnDemand 100 represents some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace."

In its second year, the AlwaysOn 2011 OnDemand Top 100 showcases the top, private, on-demand and SaaS companies, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz. Host Analytics was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Valley Bank and other industry experts, who evaluated more than 1,000 private companies for those poised to shake up the industry and lead to new value creation opportunities.

"We are honored to be named an OnDemand Top 100 winner by AlwaysOn for the second year in a row," said Jon Kondo, CEO at Host Analytics. "This continued recognition further validates our innovation and value in the marketplace, proving that our unique SaaS-based approach to CPM is a big differentiator for organizations across a wide range of industries."

Around 200 enterprises worldwide use Host Analytics to support operational decision making with financial information. Host Analytics is the only company to offer a comprehensive suite of multi-tenant SaaS financial performance solutions. The industry-leading decision platform provides quick access to both financial and operational information. Host Analytics' suite of SaaS CPM solutions helps finance executives drive fact-based decision making throughout their organizations and puts rigor into financial processes such as planning and budgeting, scorecarding, financial consolidation and reporting.

Host Analytics will be honored at the OnDemand 2011 event on March 28-30, 2011, at HP Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. A full list of AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100 winners can be found http://aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-OnDemand-100-Top-Private-Companies.

About Host Analytics
The Host Analytics Decision Platform™ reveals the full implications of decisions -- both risk and reward. As the industry's first cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) suite, Host Analytics improves budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis to drive fact-based decisions for finance executives. Host Analytics serves midsize to large customer organizations including JP Morgan Chase, Procter & Gamble, Crocs, Thule, Otis Spunkmeyer, Schumacher Group and Red Roof Inn. Founded in 2000, Host Analytics was named among JMP Securities' Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies and the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100. The company has also received industry accolades such as the 2010 Ventana Research Leadership Award and the 2010 Editors' Choice Award From TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise.

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Contact Information:

Contact Information:
Tami Casey
Kulesa Faul for Host Analytics
(650) 340-1984