Cloud9 Analytics Corporation

Cloud9 Analytics is the global leader in on demand performance management solutions delivered directly to line-of-business managers. The company's initial product, Cloud9 Dynamic Pipeline Management Suite for salesforce.com, enables sales leaders to more effectively manage their opportunities and teams. The result is a dramatic increase in deal conversion rates, higher CRM adoption, and improved forecast accuracy. Powered by patented row-level database technology, Cloud9 Dynamic Pipeline Management solutions deliver value in just 24 hours and require zero installation, zero maintenance and zero IT support.

Cloud9's customers include GENBAND, Data Domain, Ryder, Yahoo!, and Siemens. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Swayne Hill (CEO):
Swayne Hill brings to Cloud9 Analytics more than 15 years international executive experience founded in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management. He has a proven record of creating value by driving high-growth organizations both domestically and internationally.
Prior to joining Cloud9 Analytics, Swayne served as Managing Director in the Asia Pacific region at Cognos, the global leader in Business Intelligence and Performance Management. During a three-year tenure in Asia Pacific, Swayne increased his regional revenue 100% by creating a high performance sales culture, and by accelerating the integration of newly acquired companies. This accelerated integration model became the blueprint that was quickly implemented across the globe realizing similar success.
Swayne also led the North American partner channel for Cognos - direct mid-market, VAR's and OEM's. His innovations in this area led the introduction of major software releases and became the benchmark for sales process success in the company. Swayne holds a Bachelors degree in economics from the University of Toronto.

Scott Wiener (CTO):
Scott Wiener has been a successful entrepreneur in the computer industry for more than eighteen years and previously founded three successful software companies before co-founding Cloud9 Analytics. He marries a strong technical perspective with hands on operating experience in both venture funded and public technology companies.
Scott was previously CTO of Applications at Documentum, where he was charged with identifying and developing strategic Internet opportunities. Scott came to Documentum with its acquisition in 1998 of Relevance Technologies, a company he co-founded with Ford Goodman. At Relevance he drove the design and development of document and corporate analysis tools for the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. Previous to Relevance, Scott was CEO and co-founder of Common Knowledge, a distributed object management company acquired by CE Software in 1995, where he had overall responsibility for the company's operations including design and development.
Scott began his career as CTO and founder of Ann Arbor Softworks. There he led the development of best-selling desktop productivity software products including FullPaint and FullWrite Professional. After its acquisition by Ashton-Tate in 1988, Scott was Chief Application Architect with responsibility for setting the technology strategy of all product development in the Applications.

Stephan DeRodeff (Senior Vice President, Engineering):
Stephan DeRodeff brings over 25 years of high technology engineering and business management experience to Cloud9 Analytics.
Most recently, Stephan was Chief Technology Officer at Bridgeway Systems, heading up the company’s technology strategy and design of their innovative antenna systems. Prior to Bridgeway, Stephan was Vice President, Broadband Technologies, Covad Communications, where he managed network engineering, architecture and operations for Covad’s nationwide broadband access and VoIP products.
Stephan has lead engineering and operations teams for several Bay Area companies including Oracle, where he was Vice President of Product Development and responsible for the creation of a vertical industry organization for Communications and Utilities. While at Oracle, Stephan developed and released multiple products including a Unified Messaging System which provided mobile and Web access to voice, fax and e-mail. Prior to Oracle, Stephan held several senior technical management positions at USWEST.
Stephan holds a patent for a multi-user digital services home gateway and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Unlike traditional data warehouse-based systems which cost on average $1.3M and take months just to get off the ground, Cloud9's operational performance management solutions are delivered as a subscription service, are up and running in 24 hours, and require virtually no IT or systems integration services.  Cloud9 is the first and only company to deliver powerful operational performance management solutions that are easy to implement, easy to use, and furnish a provisioning cost that approaches the cost of disk storage.

Most transactional front-office CRM systems do not capture historical data; that is, once a field has changed, the system updates the data by over-writing the old state. So, in order to capture historical information from these systems, organizations must implement a data warehouse solution that snapshots all data on a timely basis for historical analysis, trending, and comparisons.

Cloud9 Analytics has solved this problem by employing a patented, row-based database technology that enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively create a data warehouse in the cloud. By showing "what's changed" in their transactional systems, organizations can have a level of insight into operational performance that is not possible without data warehouse technology.