ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - Jul 23, 2013) - Cloud Sherpas is one of the top ten most significant providers of salesforce.com implementation services, according to " The Forrester Wave™: Salesforce Implementation Services, Q2 2013" , a report issued on June 18, 2013 by Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester screened dozens of providers that have built a name in the Salesforce space, and ultimately profiled 10 global providers. Cloud Sherpas received the highest score possible for Focus in the Strategy category, and scored a 4 out of 5 in the Client Satisfaction, Technology Acumen and Go-To-Market Strategy categories.
Forrester's 45-criteria evaluation of implementation services providers identified the 10 most significant implementation partners worldwide. The selection criteria included: at least $30 million in annual salesforce.com implementation related revenue; at least 200 designated implementation services employees/consultants; at least 40 Salesforce implementations in the past 12 months; global capabilities in salesforce.com implementation services across a wide range of industries and Salesforce domains in large enterprise deployments; and sufficient interest from the Forrester client base.
According to the report: "Cloud Sherpas is a newer name to the salesforce.com ecosystem, having rapidly expanded from its original roots as a leading Google partner to build a salesforce.com practice through aggressive acquisition of salesforce.com partners such as GlobalOne, CloudTrigger and Innoveer. Cloud Sherpas has a strong salesforce.com practice, especially in financial services... Cloud Sherpas heavily leverages assets based on its existing processes and industry expertise to drive faster, lower risk implementations."
According to the report, Cloud Sherpas is one of two vendors that has "established leadership in technology consulting as well as process expertise," and has an ability to bring these solutions to leading Fortune 500 organizations worldwide.
The firm, which got its start with CRM in 2007, offers advisory, implementation, integration and custom cloud development services to thousands of users in over a dozen countries. Cloud Sherpas employs more Salesforce certified technical architects than any other cloud services broker. Cloud Sherpas estimates its practice will grow more than 40 percent in 2013, with company revenues exceeding $120 million. Among the business unit's most impressive accomplishments of the past year are:
- Completed a Series B $40MM capital raise from Columbia Capital, Greenspring Associates and Queensland Investment Corporation. The round was recently closed with an additional $1MM strategic investment from Salesforce.com.
- Acquired long-standing partners, CloudTrigger and Innoveer; expanded Cloud Sherpas presence on the West Coast and Northeastern region of the United States, and in the United Kingdom.
- Achieved Platinum Partner status as a Salesforce.com Cloud Alliance partner in three countries, United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
- Grew certifications over 215% YoY, driven by tight alignment of employee professional development with aggressive certification program.
- Became a salesforce.com authorized partner to resell and provide expert professional services to the public sector.
"We've built a practice that rivals the fastest-growing cloud services brokerages and system integrators in the world," said David Northington, CEO of Cloud Sherpas. "In the past year we've doubled headcount, dramatically expanded the scope of services, increased our presence in key geographic markets, and added hundreds of new customers. We are thrilled to be acknowledged by Forrester for what we believe is our success in this market and look forward to growing this business significantly, well into the future."
About Cloud Sherpas Cloud Sherpas is the two-time Google Enterprise Partner of the Year for Google Apps, a Platinum Salesforce.com Cloud Alliance partner and the first ServiceNow partner to reach Preferred partner status globally. As one of the world's leading cloud services brokerages we've helped over 5,000 customers adopt, manage and enhance cloud solutions from Google, salesforce.com, ServiceNow and other leading cloud vendors. Whether working with a global retailer to help them make their business more connected and collaborative, helping a financial services firm better manage their customer relationships, or consolidating global IT to a single system of record, Cloud Sherpas has the track record and trust of its partners to help the world's largest organizations leverage the cloud and respond with agility to the rapid consumerization of IT. Cloud Sherpas is headquartered in Atlanta, GA with offices throughout the United States and operations in Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
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