Cloud9 CEO Swayne Hill to Accept the Honor and Participate in a Panel at the AlwaysOn OnDemand Conference on April 21, 2010.

Redwood City, Calif., April 15, 2010

News Facts
Cloud9 Analytics, a leading provider of on-demand business analytics for line-of-business managers, today announced it has been named an OnDemand Top 100 winner by AlwaysOn in the “On-Demand Software - Business Management Applications” category.

According to AlwaysOn, this year’s OnDemand 100 companies are leaders among their peers, developing game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at Morgan Stanley, KPMG, Hewlett-Packard and industry experts across the globe, selected companies based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz.

Cloud9 Analytics also announced that Swayne Hill, CEO of Cloud9 Analytics, will participate in a panel discussion, “The Cloud Customer: Who is Driving Business-App Adoption?” at AlwaysOn On Demand. Hill and executives from CloudShare, Box.net, SugarCRM and Zuora will explore who is truly powering adoption of the cloud - is it consumers or the enterprise?

“The Cloud Customer: Who is Driving Business-App Adoption?” is scheduled for 11:20 a.m., Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at Hewlett-Packard’s headquarters, 3000 Hanover St., Palo Alto, Calif.

Supporting Quotes
“We are honored to be recognized as a leader in the on-demand software space,” said Swayne Hill, CEO of Cloud9 Analytics. “We’re singularly focused on delivering measurable business value to our subscribers every single day and we’re proud to call some of the world’s best brands Cloud9 customers. It would be impossible to provide that value without the ability to deliver our Performance Management applications as a service.”

“There is no doubt the growing market opportunity for SaaS will continue to outpace the broader software industry growth rates,” said Swayne Hill, CEO of Cloud9 Analytics. ”While this growth is driven by a new class of buyer in the lines of business, we’re seeing an increasing number of IT organizations getting behind the trend. I look forward to a lively discussion at the AlwaysOn on-Demand conference”

“As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, analyze and share this information is becoming extremely challenging,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate this year’s OnDemand 100 for providing the technology platforms and services needed to manage and leverage this new era of information complexity and overload.”

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