Cloud9 Recognizes Leaders in Cloud BI with Customer Achievement Awards

Honeywell and EMC Implement Cloud9 to Increase Sales Forecast Accuracy and Improve Sales Performance

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud9, the world’s leader in cloud BI for sales, today announced the winners of its third annual Customer Achievement Awards at the company’s 2012 Customer Summit. During the event, Carmen Richardson of Honeywell and Doris Rice of EMC were recognized for their leadership and success in deploying Cloud9 solutions throughout their organizations.

“Cloud9 is committed to providing our customers with superior tools that simplify and improve the sales process”

“Cloud9 is committed to providing our customers with superior tools that simplify and improve the sales process,” said Jim Burleigh, chief executive officer of Cloud9. “Carmen Richardson of Honeywell and Doris Rice of EMC are leaders within their organizations and their implementations of Cloud9 exemplify the benefits that can be achieved by deploying our solutions. Congratulations to these outstanding customers. We look forward to working with you in the future.”

Award Winners

Under the leadership of Carmen Richardson, a Salesforce administrator at Honeywell, the diversified technology and manufacturing leader has “taken the handcuffs” off of its sales forecasting capabilities. With 16 sales managers and Salesforce administrators currently using Cloud9, the company has simplified and improved its entire sales process. Cloud9 enables Honeywell’s sales managers to quickly derive actionable information from an intuitive, user friendly interface. Furthermore, by eliminating the need for specialized dashboard requests, sales administrators can focus on higher value activities rather than spending inordinate amounts of time building reports.

EMC’s director of sales operations, Information Intelligence Group, Doris Rice, has been an integral part of Cloud9's deployment and a champion of sales forecasting process improvement within her organization. Doris’ commitment to ensuring that all of her users are properly trained and fully understand the value of Cloud9 has been essential in changing the way the company approaches forecasting. Her steadfast commitment to her users and to improving the overall forecasting process exemplifies the importance of implementing on-demand sales BI and pipeline management solutions throughout a global organization.

About Cloud9

Cloud9 is the leader in cloud business intelligence for sales. With Cloud9, customers have the power to optimize sales performance – going beyond CRM applications and standard cloud BI tools. Cloud9 delivers sales reports and dashboards, analytics, and intelligent sales forecasting.

The result? The ability to focus on key deals, quickly see pipeline risk, more effectively coach sales teams, and increase forecast accuracy. Cloud9 customers include Avaya, BMC Software, CA Technologies, EMC2, Jive, LinkedIn, Pandora, Progress Software, Siemens, Splunk, Stanley Black & Decker, and Thomson Reuters.