December 10, 2008
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 10 -- Sonoa Systems Inc., an innovative provider of cloud service gateways, today announced the availability of Sonoa Analytics, a powerful solution that enables business-level visibility and decision support for cloud services and APIs. Sonoa also announced several new customer wins for Sonoa's analytics, management and governance solutions, which provide visibility and control over cloud services.
In the growing API economy, companies are seeking new ways to understand the audience and impact of cloud services and APIs, just as they have used analytics platforms for years to understand Web behaviors and traffic. Sonoa Analytics is the first business-level analytics solution to offer users the ability to understand usage patterns of customers, partners and services. Sonoa Analytics is a software solution that deploys quickly with no code to write, protects sensitive customer and enterprise data, and scales to thousands of services or customers at enterprise traffic levels without impacting service performance.
Key capabilities of Sonoa Analytics include the ability to:
Sonoa's growing roster of new customers continues to validate demand for solutions that enable the enterprise the visibility and control to trust cloud services. New customers that have selected Sonoa Analytics include Innotas, a provider of Project Portfolio Management solutions; QuickArrow, the worldwide leader in Professional Services Automation solutions; and InfoNGen, the first financial discovery engine.
Sonoa also released a virtual software appliance for each of its analytics, management and governance solutions. Recent customer wins using this solution include MTV, one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms; mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network; and Cast Iron, a SaaS integration company. These industry leaders have selected Sonoa to ensure visibility and control when opening Web services to large numbers of diverse customers.
"To be successful and to make smart business decisions, we must have the visibility and understand the value, audience and impact of our APIs," said Tim Madewell, vice president of engineering at Innotas. "We selected Sonoa to provide this important level of information and trust that it will allow us to manage our company activities and make the right decisions to move our business forward."
"No executive would run a Web site without the analytics to understand and make decisions around customers, partners and investments. APIs require the same level of visibility," said Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems. "As businesses are beginning to see more traffic through their cloud services or APIs than their browser-based applications, it is necessary to have a scalable, easy to install analytics solution for valuable business insight. We are addressing this need and giving our customers the ability to rapidly introduce a powerful, enterprise-grade analytics solution built for 'cloud scale.'"
About Sonoa Systems
Sonoa Systems provides a cloud service gateway that solves critical visibility, control, and governance challenges for enterprises that are using cloud-based business applications. Leading customers such as Pfizer, Warner Music, and IntraLinks use Sonoa to create new revenue channels, reduce costs, and innovate faster. The company is based in Santa Clara, Calif., privately held, and backed by leading investors including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners, Third Point Ventures, and SAP Ventures. For more, see www.sonoasystems.com.
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