Prior to founding gainsight, the duo had worked together to set up host analytics, a saasbased corporate performance management company. Eberlin served as chief executive officer of tapestry computing fas, a consulting company specializing in financial analytics and erp software implementations. A series of forbes insights profiles of thought leaders changing the business landscape. Louis, mo prweb november 14, 2006 host analytics, the price, performance leader in business performance management software, today announced that the city of vancouver, washington, is using host budget, a budgeting, planning and reporting solution. At host analytics, jim and cofounder, sreedhar peddineni built a leading. Host analytics is a redwood city, californiabased company with 175 employees. In jbara, eberlin has applied the concept of webbased social media to business. When told of vancouvers issues with the ondemand budgeting software, jim eberlin, founder of host analytics and its chief customer officer, described the situation as an anomaly and the city as a problem account. Jim eberlins host analytics to be acquired by vector capital st. And is a market leader in the space of corporate performance management.
Founderceo topopps, a sales forecasting and pipeline predictive analytics solution. Topopps founder jim eberlin earlier founded my former company host analytics and then founded gainsight from his experience at host due to his aha moment of figuring out how to keep customers happy and successful. With host analytics, you can drive improved financial and operational performance by optimizing your budgeting, planning and sales forecasting, speeding financial consolidations, measuring and monitoring performance consistently across the entire organization. Jim cofounded host analytics, and while there he saw the opportunity to create a system to monitor customer success. Sreedhar and our founder, jim eberlin, have been long time partners, wherein sreedhar cofounded host analytics and was instrumental in building host analytics product suite, development team, and company into an industry leading saas corporate performance management cpm solution. If you had success once, you go back, eberlin said. After founding two market leaders in silicon valley, gainsight and host analytics, jim eberlin continued to experience challenges with the sales forecasting. Version 6 of our budgeting software now allows more indepth what. Save time and effort comparing leading operations management software tools for small businesses.
Early in 2008, host analytics had raised their series a. Corporate financial planners were using these clunky onpremise systems to do budgeting and forecasting. Planful is the leading provider of cloudbased connected financial planning and close solutions. Host analytics delivers improved driver based and top down budgeting with enhanced budgeting software. And these were all within an elite group of customers that participated in events and programs for host analytics. Eberlin s leadership, host analytics put into production the first on demand corporate performance management application in january, 2001. View jim eberlins professional profile on linkedin. Host analytics is the ondemand leader in business performance management software. Jim eberlins friends in california consider him a silicon valley entrepreneur. Host analytics founder jim eberlin is in love with ponca city. After founding two market leaders in silicon valley, gainsight and host analytics, jim eberlin continued to experience challenges with the sales forecasting process.
We needed a costcompetitive community close to our current st. Louis shade maker has named a new president and moved its operations. The governors entrepreneur of the year award was presented to jim eberlin, ceo of st. Host analytics came from bringing a fresh idea to an existing market. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Mar 30, 2010 with offices in ponca city and tulsa, jbara was founded by chief executive officer jim eberlin, a serial entrepreneur and founder of host analytics. The workforce is highly skilled and the community is so helpful. All of the host analytics customers would compete to. It consisted of combining product usage data with qualitative customer. Louis oracle summit authored by topopps on may 23, 2014 on tuesday may 27th founder and ceo of topopps, jim eberlin founder of host analytics, gainsight will be speaking at the oracle applications users group. Host analytics was founded in 2001 by jim eberlin in 2012, the company appointed dave kellogg as ceo. Jim eberlin, who founded the company in 2000, has been named vice president of business development.
Jim eberlin, founder and chief customer officer, host analytics when the system is working, it has on more than one occasion failed to save salary and benefits data that city workers entered manually, wasting hours of effort and creating headaches for staff, according to ramras. If youve never successfully run a startup before, youll need feedback on how to grow. With a partial exit from host analytics, i started gainsight, at the time it was called jbara software and we renamed it later. Linkedin is the worlds largest business network, helping professionals like jim eberlin discover inside connections to recommended job. Poor performance sours city on financial budgeting software vendor. With a partial exit from host analytics, i started gainsight, at the time it was called jbara software and we. Sreedhars entrepreneurial journey started with his long time partner, jim eberlin, when the duo founded host analytics in 2001. Jim cofounded host analytics, and while there he saw the opportunity to create.
In 2015, missouri governor jay nixon awarded jim eberlin the governors entrepreneur of the year award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three startup companies, beginning with host analytics in 2001 and followed by gainsight formerly jbara software in 2011 and topopps in 2014. Host analytics, a cloudbased service provider that originated in st. Eberlins company topopps has created an operational sales software focused on increasing closed deals through sales team efficiency. City of vancouver streamlines budgeting with business. He also founded host analytics in 2001 and gainsight in 2011. Jim eberlin founded gainsight in the united states in january 2009 from his experience at the previous company he founded, host analytics. Join facebook to connect with jim eberlin and others you may know.
Before diving into some brief analysis of the deal, i want to thank host analytics customers, employees, partners, investors, and board of directors. Its amazing how well that city has rallied around supporting business, and that goes a long way. Poor performance sours city on financial budgeting software. The folks at host analytics kindly asked me to speak at their annual conference, host perform 2019, today in las vegas and i had a wonderful time speaking about one of my favorite topics. Host analytics inc funding history, company info, news. Founded in 2000 by jim eberlin, host analytics, inc. Access to 24x7x365 support online, phone, professional services online community support and peer interaction in a closed environment decisions backed by accurate, timely data saas delivery that eliminates software and hardware support and maintenance according to neil chandler, research director for. Growing a company requires incredible scrappiness and being. Given that host analytics is a saas company, jim realized early on that he didnt have an integrated system to understand his customers health and drive more revenue. The platform allows for plans to be built by forecasting with excel. Previous to host analytics, sreedhar held executive and management positions in product development at graphonet and tata international. Jim eberlins friends in california consider him a silicon valley entrepreneur, even though he lives in st.
Growth strategies april 17, 2017 preipo, host analytics seeks growthprofits balance as the enterprise performance management firm plans for an initial public offering within two years, the only growth it wants is the profitable kind. Gainsight was founded in 2009 by jim eberlin and sreedhar peddineni and incubated at host analytics, another company founded by eberlin. Now hes starting his third software company, topopps, which aims to. Aug 28, 20 jim eberlin founded gainsight in the united states in january 2009 from his experience at the previous company he founded, host analytics. Its amazing how well that city has rallied around supporting business, and that goes a. Sep 14, 2017 finally, an answer for customer churn. Host analytics modeling is a business intelligence software solution that improves financial and operational agility. Apr 17, 2017 growth strategies april 17, 2017 preipo, host analytics seeks growthprofits balance as the enterprise performance management firm plans for an initial public offering within two years, the only growth it wants is the profitable kind. Jim and sreedhar partnered again at gainsight to build. Jan 27, 2006 st louis, mo prweb january 27, 2006 host analytics, the price, performance leader in business performance management software solutions, today announced a new version if its budgeting software, that enhances top down planning and the integration with bottom up planning. As a serial entrepreneur, jim knew it was time to tackle.
Business intelligence software for sales reporting is missing the mark. Poor performance sours city on financial budgeting. Built with financial expertise and a dedication to customer success, host analytics meets the needs of finance and accounting teams and helps them to evolve as business conditions change. Previous to topopps, jim was founder and ceo of host analytics and gainsight, two. Host analytics was amongst the early enterprise b2b saas businesses globally. Dec 19, 2017 jim eberlin is the founder and ceo of topopps. Work your deals, not your crm webinar with mark kosoglow.
Host analytics delivers improved driver based and top down. It strategies in smes our research, case studies and interviews indicate that knowledge management was not a term that smes are familiar with, nor do they have the manpower to implement. On tuesday may 27th founder and ceo of topopps, jim eberlin founder of host analytics, gainsight will be speaking at the oracle applications users group. In 2015, thenmissouri governor jay nixon awarded jim eberlin the governors entrepreneur of the year award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three startup companies, beginning with host analytics in 2001 and followed by gainsight formerly jbara software in 2011 and topopps in 2014.
Business profile for host analytics inc in redwood city, california. Topopps, a softwareasaservice company that is revolutionizing sales process management and forecasting, is mr. He will undoubtedly do great things with topopps, as he has already done with gainsight and host analytics. Host analytics, a cloudbased service provider founded by local entrepreneur jim eberlin, is set to be acquired by private equity firm vector. Host ceo jim eberlin would not be able to deliver the high level of service his clients expect. Eberlin is the founder of host analytics, based in redwood city, calif. Jun 23, 2015 in 2015, thenmissouri governor jay nixon awarded jim eberlin the governors entrepreneur of the year award, in recognition of his success in founding not one, but three startup companies, beginning with host analytics in 2001 and followed by gainsight formerly jbara software in 2011 and topopps in 2014. Jon kondo, cofounder and ceo opspanda editors note. Louis and was founded by local entrepreneur jim eberlin, is set to be acquired by private equity firm vector capital. Host analytics mvp program has achievement levels such as platinum, gold, silver and bronze. December 19, 2017 updated january 4, 2018 by jim eberlin 0 comments.
Aug 08, 20 a series of forbes insights profiles of thought leaders changing the business landscape. Eberlin presented with governors entrepreneur of the year. Embedded below are the slides from the presentation. The table above compares host analytics and adaptive insights.
Host analytics customers praise saas, services and support. It was founded in 2001 as a bootstrap operation by jim eberlin. After a while, roger lee, nakul mandan and paul morrissey of battery ventures discovered us because they did a thesis on the customer success market and were looking for companies in this space. It was founded in 2011 by serial entrepreneurs jim eberlin and sreedhar peddineni. Jim eberlin, executive advisor, thompson street capital partners. While at host analytics, the two wanted to ensure that customers continually renewed their subscriptions and bought new services. Jim campbell angela lieb dj monzyk november 30, 2004. Jim eberlins host analytics to be acquired by vector. Host analytics was founded in 2001 by jim eberlin and is headquartered in redwood city, ca. With offices in ponca city and tulsa, jbara was founded by chief executive officer jim eberlin, a serial entrepreneur and founder of host analytics. Check out how both products compare looking at product details such as features, pricing, target market and supported languages. However, we did find that some of the smaller companies are documenting their policies, procedures and howtos and developing operations manuals. Opspanda puts an end to having to deal with massive spreadsheets when planning for operational units within companies. Implementing a vibrant online community customer success.
Ted stann, chief financial officer, and jim eberlin, chief executive, of topopps, in the software companys new. Louis location that had the skilled work force, business infrastructure and support needed for our industry, eberlin said. Were trying to do to hyperion what salesforce did to siebel and. The software was designed to help companies comply with the sarbanes oxley legislation, said jim eberlin, president of host analytics. Jul 21, 2008 jim eberlin, who founded the company in 2000, has been named vice president of business development. Users can quick analysis with create business models that align and link with financial plans and forecasts. Given that host analytics is a saas company, jim realized early on that he didnt have an integrated system to. Host analytics, is competing with a large company that provides the same product for five times as much. May 22, 2019 the folks at host analytics kindly asked me to speak at their annual conference, host perform 2019, today in las vegas and i had a wonderful time speaking about one of my favorite topics.