AlwaysOn Announces Inaugural 'OnDemand 100' List of Fastest Growing Private Companies

SAN FRANCISCO, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- AlwaysOn, the leading producer of world-class conferences for venture investors and entrepreneurs of emerging private companies, today announced the winners of the first ever "OnDemand 100" list. The companies selected for the AlwaysOn "OnDemand 100" represent a wide variety of emerging growth companies across the industry, from Cloud Application Platforms and On Demand Software for Customer Relationship Management, to Cloud Management Tools and On Demand Software for Business Management Applications. The overall winner of the "OnDemand 100" is Appirio, a cloud solution provider that offers both products and professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of the cloud. Today's news closely follows the announcement of the impressive speaker line up at the show, which includes a keynote address from Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com. The full list of "OnDemand 100" companies can be viewed online here.

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AlwaysOn "OnDemand 100" honorees are selected by AlwaysOn editors in collaboration with Morgan Stanley and KPMG. Judging criteria included market opportunity, nature of innovation, media buzz and awareness, commercialization and ability to create stakeholder value.

"As the digital information created by businesses continues to explode at astronomical rates, the need to store, manage, and share this information is becoming extremely challenging," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "By providing innovative technologies that help enterprises better compete in this new era of information complexity, the OnDemand 100 represent some of the highest growth opportunities in the private company marketplace."

"OnDemand 100" winners will be honored at the AlwaysOn OnDemand conference to be held April 19-21 at HP Worldwide Headquarters in Palo Alto, California. This two-and-a-half day executive event features keynotes, in addition to Marc Benioff, from Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President Personal Systems Group at HP, Lars Delgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors and Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, as well as panel discussions and debates from other industry leading CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and established corporations on how the cloud and SaaS are changing the way businesses can work with data more effectively.

The current program for OnDemand 2010 can be found at http://alwayson.goingon.com/page/display/34372.

To register for a media pass for OnDemand 2010, please visit: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/34630.

For tickets to OnDemand, please contact Jeannene Glass at [email protected].

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Marc Sternberg ([email protected]) or Claudio Barrientos ([email protected]).

About OnDemand

AlwaysOn OnDemand is where the top Internet companies disrupting the enterprise square off with the incumbent players pioneering cloud computing and SaaS. This two-and-a-half day executive event features high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting how companies -- from small businesses to large enterprises -- create, store, distribute, analyze, and take advantage of their mission-critical data. OnDemand also showcases the top entrepreneurial CEOs who are revolutionizing the way the enterprise is radicalized by the Internet.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

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