REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - May 18, 2011) - Host Analytics, the leading provider of SaaS-based corporate performance management (CPM) solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named Kelly Bodnar Battles a winner of the 6th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards in the Finance Executive of the Year category. These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry.
Kelly Bodnar Battles joined Host Analytics, a provider of software that helps companies budget, manage, forecast and analyze their financial performance, as CFO in 2009. The company's Software-as-a Service-based products were in line with her vision of moving all business software to the cloud-based SaaS model to take advantage of accelerated time to value, implementation simplicity, broad product features and dramatic cost benefits. Ultimately, Kelly led the entire organization on a quest that transformed itself to a fully SaaS-based company. Prior to joining Host Analytics, Kelly held key roles at JP Morgan, McKinsey and Company, HP, IronPort Systems and Cisco Systems.
An annual achievement and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.com.
Says Battles, "I am thrilled to receive this award from Network Products Guide, especially given that it honors the finance function, Host Analytics and an industry about which I feel passionately. At Host Analytics, we work hard day and night to enable our customers, typically in the office of the CFO, to use facts and metrics to drive better decision-making and thus performance throughout their organizations. We fervently believe that SaaS solutions are more innovative and enable companies to realize more value, more quickly when compared to traditional on premise software alternatives. I am especially pleased that this award further validates the importance of this evolving role of finance and the dramatic value SaaS solutions bring to our customers."
In May, Kelly Battles was also recognized by the YWCA Tribute to Women Awards Program. As one of the nation's most prestigious honors given by local and regional YWCA's, this award recognizes successful women executives for their outstanding achievements.
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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 AT&T, 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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