Host Analytics Teams With Schumacher Group to Discuss Value of Cloud Computing, Benefit to Finance Teams in Free Webinar

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 12, 2012) - Host Analytics, the leader in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it will host a free webinar on July 17 at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET featuring award-winning CIO Doug Menefee of Schumacher Group, one of the fastest growing emergency and hospital medicine practice management companies in the nation.

The webinar, titled "How CIOs Can Help You Embrace the Cloud," will focus on how and why best-in-class CIOs are embracing cloud computing and how the technology can help advance business. The plethora of cloud-based solutions available today offers simplifications to both IT teams and business owners. Doug Menefee will discuss first-hand why Schumacher Group has fully embraced the cloud and what cloud computing means for its finance team -- and overall organization.

Attendees will learn:

• How to leverage Cloud and related technology to monitor and manage the metrics that empower better decision-making
• How IT can work with business owners to strategically embrace cloud technology to drive improved business results
• How to reduce Time to Value and Total Cost of Ownership of technology implementations

Who:
Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group
Keri Brooke, VP of marketing of Host Analytics

When:
Tuesday, July 17
8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET

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

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.