Marketo Customers Among Top Honorees in Deloitte's 2011 Technology Fast 500™ Rankings

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marketo, the fastest-growing provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) solutions, today announced that 52 of Deloitte's 2011 Technology Fast 500™ are Marketo customers.

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"To see so many of our 1,350 customers being recognized by Deloitte for their outstanding revenue performance and growth is tremendous validation of the value we deliver," said Paul Albright, chief revenue officer, Marketo. "We continue to see rapid adoption of our marketing automation and sales effectiveness solutions across all business sectors – technology companies included – and it's clear we're making our customers wildly successful."

Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™ ranks 500 of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2006-2010.

Fifty-two Marketo technology customers were in the overall rankings, with 11 in the top 100, including SproutLoud Media Networks (#27), SevOne, Inc. (#30), Acquisio (#46), LinkedIn (#49), YouSendIt (#55), DocuSign (#58), Zmags (#70), iContact (#83) and DigiCert (#89), all of which have experienced more than 1,100 percent growth since 2006.

"Revenue is of utmost importance, and Acquisio's rollout of Marketo's Revenue Performance Management solutions was a highly strategic initiative for us," said Alexandre Pelletier, director of marketing at Acquisio. "Marketo has helped transform our marketing department from a cost-center to a revenue generator and greatly enabled us in ranking in the top 100 of Deloitte's 2011 list."

Other Marketo customers recognized include Solace Systems (#113), OraMetrix, Inc. (#187), NewsGator Technologies (#192), Recommind (#193), QlikTech, Inc. (#222), ExactTarget (#265), XIFIN, Inc. (#298), EthicsPoint (#340), Coverity (#351), eBridge Interactive (#379), NetMotion Wireless (#385), Sourcefire (#402), PureSafety (#443), Acronis (#476) and Servigistics (#491).

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ ranking comes on the heels of Marketo being named Silicon Valley's fastest-growing privately held company of 2011 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal after growing 1,486 percent since 2008.

Marketo also recently launched Spark by Marketo™, a new brand of marketing automation tailored specifically for small businesses – the fastest-growing and largest segment of today's economy.  Spark by Marketo™ is simple to use and deploy to immediately help small businesses to grow revenue faster. It complements Marketo's award-winning solutions for mid-size and large enterprise customers.

About Marketo

Marketo is the global leader in Revenue Performance Management. Marketo's powerful yet easy-to-use marketing automation and sales effectiveness solutions transform how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work — and work together — to drive dramatically increased revenue performance and fuel business growth. The company's proven technology, comprehensive services, and expert guidance are helping corporations around the world to turn marketing from a cost center to a business-building revenue driver.

As of September 2011, more than 1,300 enterprise and mid-market clients globally have adopted Marketo solutions. In October, Marketo introduced Spark by Marketo,™ a new brand of marketing automation tailored specifically for small businesses – the fastest-growing and largest segment of today's economy.

Marketo was named the fastest-growing private company of 2011 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and has also been recognized by CRM Magazine as the "2011 CRM Market Leaders Awards Winner for Marketing Solutions," the 2010 CODiE award for "Best Marketing Solution," the "Best Sales and Marketing 2.0 Solution" from SellingPower and the "Best Marketing Automation Application" by Salesforce customers on the AppExchange. For more information, visit http://www.Marketo.com, or subscribe to Marketo's award-winning blogs at http://blog.marketo.com/.

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