The members of the marketing cloud represent some of the best known, fast-growing marketing companies today. Learn more about those committed to cloud computing for marketers.

Alfresco Software, Inc. (www.alfresco.com) is the leader in the open source enterprise content management market. The company couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost.  The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, web content management and collaboration software to enterprise customers worldwide.  Based in London, the company was founded in 2005 by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. 

Demandbase (www.demandbase.com) is a leading provider of B2B customer acquisition solutions that enable sales and marketing professionals to better identify, reach, and convert new business. Delivered on-demand through software as a service, Demandbase solutions combine the ability to identify website visitors from target businesses with an integrated database of high-quality, validated business contacts and a new breed of B2B Web analytics to improve marketing and sales performance. In use at more than 1,000 companies, Demandbase helps generate more sales opportunities and drive new business. Founded in 2006, Demandbase is headquartered in San Francisco, California and funded by Adobe Systems, Altos Ventures and Sigma Partners.

Hoover’s, a D&B company, provides its customers with insight and actionable information about companies, industries and key decision makers, along with the powerful tools to find and connect to the right people to get business done. Hoover’s provides this information for sales, marketing, business development and other professionals who need intelligence on U.S. and global companies, industries and the people who lead them. Hoover’s unique combination of editorial expertise and one-of-a-kind data collection with user-generated and company-supplied content gives customers a 360-degree view and competitive edge. This information, along with powerful tools to search, sort, download and integrate the content, is available through Hoover’s (http://www.hoovers.com), the company’s premier online service. Hoover’s is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) is the industry leader in Data as a Service (DaaS) and business information that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of one million members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to contact information for 17 million business people and profiles of 3 million companies. In addition to delivering low-cost and easy access to high-value business information for sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service, Jigsaw provides companies with cloud-based data acquisition and management services

Marketo (www.marketo.com) is the revenue-focused marketing automation company, revolutionizing how marketing and sales teams of all sizes sell and succeed at every stage of the revenue cycle. Delivered in the Marketing Cloud, Marketo’s powerful and easy solutions provide the fastest time to value and ignite explosive revenue growth from the earliest stages of demand generation and lead management to the pursuit of revenue and customer loyalty. Known for providing breakthrough innovation and the utmost in usability, Marketo was voted ‘Best Marketing Automation Application’ by Salesforce customers on the Force.com AppExchange. As of October 2009, more than 300 enterprise and mid-market clients in 12 countries have selected Marketo.

ON24 (www.ON24.com) is the global leader in webcasting and virtual events, providing a full range of innovative solutions for applications such as demand generation, professional development and training and corporate communications. More than 750 organizations and enterprises, including IBM, Autodesk, Cisco, Boston Scientific and the National Science Foundation, rely on ON24.

PivotLink (www.pivotlink.com) is the leader in on-demand business intelligence, serving more than 15,000 users at companies such as: REI; Novell; Party City; Phoenix Technologies; DHL; CamelBak Products; Car Toys; Guardian Home Care Holdings, Inc; Rossignol; Shaklee; Taleo and Zones. Delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, PivotLink’s award-winning solutions put affordable, secure and easy-to-use analytic tools into the hands of line of business users, freeing IT to focus on strategic business initiatives. PivotLink is a privately held company backed by Trident Capital, Emergence Capital Partners and StarVest Partners.