Organization and Description of Business

12 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization and Description of Business

Organization and Description of Business

Cloudera, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware on June 27, 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. We sell subscriptions and services for an integrated suite of data analytics and management products from the Edge to artificial intelligence (AI). Our offerings are based predominantly on open source software, utilizing data stored natively in public cloud object stores as well as in various open source data stores.

Unless the context requires otherwise, the words “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” and “Cloudera” refer to Cloudera, Inc. and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

In January 2019, we completed our merger of Hortonworks, Inc. (Hortonworks), a publicly-held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and a provider of enterprise-grade, global data management platforms, services and solutions. We have included the financial results of Hortonworks in our consolidated financial statements from the date of completion of our merger.

During the year ended January 31, 2019, we adopted Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). The consolidated financial data for the years ended January 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 and as of January 31, 2020 and 2019 included in this Form 10-K is in compliance with this standard.