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LucidEra Partners with Milestone Group to Help Businesses Boost Revenue Acceleration

Customers Will Leverage On-Demand Business Analytics and Sales Performance Best Practices to Navigate Through Current Challenging Economic Conditions; Joint Webinar with CRM Magazine Set for May 14th

SAN MATEO, Calif., - April 15, 2008 – LucidEra, the leading provider of simple-to-set-up and simple-to-use business analytics-as-a-service for sales, operations, and finance managers today announced a partnership with Milestone Group, a consulting firm specializing in revenue acceleration for technology-enabled businesses operating in markets that are defined by complexity and rapid change. This partnership will help customers grow revenues and increase the productivity of their sales organization through the unique combination of a proven sales performance management methodology and simple-to-use on-demand analytic applications that deliver best practices in sales management, while removing the complicated and costly technology barriers typically associated with on-premise business intelligence.

To formally kick-off the partnership, LucidEra and Milestone Group will be delivering an interactive webinar with CRM Magazine on May 14th on “The Science of Selling – Maximizing Sales Success with On-Demand Analytics.” Register at http://destinationcrm.com/webevents/details.asp?eventid=294 today.

LucidEra adds depth to Milestone Group's analytic capabilities both at the front end and throughout the client engagement cycle. It combines strategic insight around optimizing revenue in large complex sales systems with a means to effectively collect, measure, and react to a myriad of disparate data sources that all affect sales operations. LucidEra’s analytic applications allow sales, operations, and finance managers to uncover weaknesses and strengths in their current sales pipeline, identify which sales opportunities to focus on and where their sales team needs help, eliminate bottlenecks in the bookings-to-shipment process, and uncover new revenue growth opportunities. LucidEra enables sales organizations to compete more effectively by providing insights from combined sales, finance, and spreadsheet data, historical trending, and full interactivity – not just static transactional reports.

“We see this partnership as putting more software applications into our 'Science of Revenue' methodology," says Milestone Group Managing Partner Mark Zawacki. "We have always told our clients that strategic planning without implementation is a low-yield proposition. Now, by adding LucidEra as a strategic partner we can show clients a simple-to-use, yet powerful analytic application for use in both planning and monitoring the program variables required for market success. We look forward to working with LucidEra customers who want to get more productivity from their sales operations efforts."

"For organizations to survive in today’s difficult economic climate, the ability for sales, finance, and marketing personnel to have immediate access to critical business information and to quickly incorporate sales performance management best practices is an absolute requirement,” said Ken Rudin, CEO and co-founder of LucidEra. “Because of this, we are very excited to be partnering with the Milestone Group. Their strong reputation and thought-leadership in revenue acceleration matches well with our innovative approach and thought-leadership in analytic applications. By combining LucidEra’s simple yet powerful business analytics with Milestone Group’s proven methodology, customers have two crucial elements in place to drive revenue, increase sales productivity, and move closer to achieving the vision of a repeatable, predictable sales model.”

About Milestone
Milestone Group is a Silicon Valley-based consulting firm specializing in revenue acceleration for technology-enabled businesses operating in markets that are defined by complexity and rapid change. Milestone Group's client portfolio includes early stage startups and Global 2000 firms in the technology, media and telecommunications industries. The firm is privately held.

About LucidEra
LucidEra is breaking down the traditional barriers to business intelligence adoption by delivering business analytics as an on-demand service. LucidEra customers are no longer flying blind when it comes to pipeline visibility and achieving new levels of sales success thanks to dynamic reporting and analysis that is simple to set up, simple to use, and simple to buy. No more guesses. No more surprises. Know more with LucidEra. Visit https://www.lucidera.com or call 1-866-392-8008.