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SuccessFactors, Inc

Success Factor provides cloud based business execution software to businesses of all sizes and categories. It specialises in human capital management and business execution. The company was established in 2001 and was earlier known as Success Acquisition Corporation. It has its headquarters in San Mateo, California. The company claims to have served 3,200+ customers with more than 8 million+ users in 168 countries and is available in 34 languages.

In the year ending December 31, 2011 the company generated revenue of USD 205.9 million with a gross profit of USD 149.4 million. The company has a market cap of USD 2.65 bn. As of 2010 the company had 1,047 employees.

Cohesive FT Inc.

Cohesive FT is a provider of virtual infrastructure and cloud computing established in the year 2006. It has offices in London, Chicago and Palo Alto. The company was chosen as one of Cloud and ICT 2.0 Summit 2010 Selected Companies and selected as AlwaysOn OnDemand Top100 Winner.

Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a public company founded in 1998 by Daniel Lewin and Tom Leighton. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It addresses problems associated with the Internet such as performance, security and scalability. The company created a globally distributed network of servers which is controlled by proprietary software. Akamai provides services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet. In June 2010, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets and liabilities of Velocitude LLC (“Velocitude”), in exchange for payment of approximately USD 12.0 million in cash.

Intacct Inc.

Intacct provides financial management and accounting software solutions based on cloud computing platform. It is a privately held company founded in 1999 by David Thomas to provide small and midsized businesses an online alternative to on-premise and desktop accounting solutions. It is headquartered in San Jose, California.
The AICPA and its subsidiary CPA2Biz aligned with Intacct to provide its services. With company size of about 120 employees it serves more than 30,000 users across more than 4,000 companies. It has geographic availability in United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

CloudBerry Lab

CloudBerry Lab, started in August 2008, has gone on to become a notable cloud service provider and explorer builder for cloud back up facilities. The company now has web-explorers to take back – up and function with the most notable of the cloud service providers including Amazon, Windows Azure, Google Storage etc. Thus, once the required explorer is downloaded from the company (as per the cloud service provider being used), it becomes easy to take the back-up of the data using this explorer.

NetSuite Inc.

NetSuite Inc. is a vendor of cloud computing business management software suites. The company headquartered in San Mateo, CA 9USA) was founded in October 1998 by Evan Goldberg and Larry Ellison. NetSuite provides services that aid companies to manage their business in a single system, which includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Ecommerce for small and medium-sized businesses. Apart from USA, it also has its offices in Austin, Boston, Denver, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Czech Republic, Philippines, Japan and Australia.

Zuora Inc.

Zuora provides online subscription billing and management platform through a SaaS delivery model. The company provides its services to any firm looking for subscription billing solution including SaaS, cloud computing, Web 2.0 etc. which all have recurring revenue services.

The company is Redwood City, California based and was founded by industry veterans from Salesforce.com, Accenture, WebEx, Oracle, and Postini (now Google). Zuora is backed by Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, and Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.

Rackspace Inc.

Rackspace is a hosting and cloud computing company established in 1998. It has its headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. The company earned total revenue of USD 780.6 mn in the year ending on Dec 31 2010 and a gross profit of USD 530.7 mn with a net income of USD 30.2 mn. The company has a market cap of USD 5.68 bn.
The company had 3,262 employees as of December 31, 2010. As of December 31, 2010 the company claims to have served more than 130,000 business customers and has managed more than 66,000 servers, 2,100,000 email accounts and 417,000 cloud hosting domains. It provides its services to small, medium as well as large sized businesses.

R.Twining and Company Limited

R Twining is a marketer of tea based in Andover, Hampshire, England. Holder of a Royal Warrant, Twinings is subsidiary of Associated British Foods since 1964. Twinings sells more than 100 varieties of regional and flavored teas such as Lapsang Souchong, Lady Grey and Darjeeling, as well as infusions, coffee, and hot chocolate.

Twinings produces teas in a number of different lines, including organic, everyday, specialty, "Fresh and Fruity," "Moment of Calm" and "Revive and Revitalize." The company's website includes recommendations on how to serve teas and clearly marks which teas do and do not contain caffeine. It markets tea based on regional preferences.

Vocus Inc.

Vocus Inc. is a provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software that helps organizations and influence buyers across social networks, online and through the media. Vocus is a publicly held company founded in 1992 and based in Lanham, Maryland and has offices throughout Europe and Asia. It went public in 2005.
According to the Washington Post index, Vocus is one of the top 125 public companies headquartered in Washington D.C. and its suburbs.

With a company size of more than 475 employees, it generated revenue of about USD 96.7 million in 2010. It has a market cap of USD 579.69 million (as on 27 June 2011).