Start-Up Tops 100 New Customers in First Two Weeks to Become Fastest Growing Sales Analytics Company
SAN MATEO, Calif.--In the first two weeks since the company’s debut, Cloud9 Analytics today announced it has acquired more than 100 new customers and become the fastest-growing sales analytics vendor. The record-setting sales surge took off as soon as Cloud9 Analytics entered the market with a pair of on-demand sales analytics applications for salesforce.com customers that boost sales team effectiveness and increase sales.
“These early Cloud9 Analytics users represent companies that have over 50,000 Salesforce licensed users,” said Swayne Hill, CEO of Cloud9 Analytics. “The sheer volume of customers’ historical sales data capture that Cloud9 is now doing easily separates us from the competition as the fastest growing salesforce.com analytics application vendor.”
According to Jim Dickie, managing partner of CSO Insights, “We have been waiting a long time—years—for an application to not just report on the pipeline, but also to help optimize the pipeline. After reviewing the functionality provided by Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator, the wait is finally over.”
At the launch, Cloud9 Analytics announced two new applications. Cloud9 Messenger automatically generates weekly “What’s Changed?” reports and sends them by email to mobile devices, while Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator increases the effectiveness of sales organizations by prioritizing sales opportunities, detecting changes in the current opportunity pipeline and connecting sales reps working on similar deals. The Cloud9 Messenger keeps sales managers up to date by detailing changes in forecast and pipeline, and calculates percent pipeline coverage for each team member, all without the need to install or configure any software. Instead of relying on gut feelings, sales managers who use Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator receive analytic evidence and timely guidance on which team members and deals need attention, helping turn “B” reps into “A” reps – the fastest way to increase revenues.
In addition to launching its first two applications, Cloud9 Analytics also recently announced two new partnerships. The partnership with CoreMatrix uses business intelligence to improve sales effectiveness for salesforce.com customers. The two companies are already at work helping Lamar Advertising (NASDAQ: LAMR) realize improvements in CRM user adoption, sales management, sales team effectiveness and streamlined sales reporting and analysis. The partnership with Sales Performance International has already delivered the industry’s first sales methodology ROI dashboard. Now Salesforce customers can measure sales methodology adoption by rep and the ROI of sales training.
Salesforce users can activate the free Cloud9 Messenger application and start receiving their weekly “what’s changed” updates by registering at www.cloud9analytics.com. Salesforce users can also register for a free, 30-day trial of the Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator.
About Cloud9 Analytics
Cloud9 Analytics delivers on-demand analytic applications for salesforce.com customers that accelerate sales cycles, uncover new revenue opportunities, promote team selling and improve revenue predictability. The patent-pending Cloud9 Time Machine that powers Cloud9 applications continuously stores snapshots of Salesforce data that would otherwise be overwritten and lost, automatically building a history of sales events, human behavior and market information. Fully integrated with Salesforce, Cloud9 applications require no knowledge of analytics, reports or dashboards, and no IT involvement to install or operate. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California. For more information, please visit www.cloud9analytics.com.
