Genentech chooses Google Apps over Microsoft

CRM Helpdesk Software
"South San Francisco's Genentech 16,300 employees have switched to Google Apps for their email, and limited use of Google's Documents and Spreadsheets. Google Apps Premier edition is $50 per user per year, which means and additional $815,000 to Google's deep pockets, instead of Microsoft (or Genentech's Senior Exchange Administrators)."

Genentech takes a chance on 'cloud computing'

globeandmail.com
"To meet the computing needs of 16,300 employees and contractors at Genentech Inc., Mr. Pierce took a chance and decided not to rely entirely on business software from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier that would have let Genentech own the technology. Instead, Mr. Pierce decided to rent these indispensable products from Google Inc."

Google, Salesforce.com vs. Microsoft Headlines Cloud Computing Battle for 2009

eWeek
"SAAS integrator and consulting services firm Appirio has some strong opinions about the way cloud computing will evolve in 2009. In short, it sees open clouds from Salesforce.com and Google duking it out with Microsoft's Windows Azure and Microsoft Online Services. Appirio sees big things for the cloud, from enterprise applications and business intelligence to enterprise social networks."

The Top Internet Predictions for 2009

Social Computing Magazine
Appirio's Top 10 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009 is featured in this year end wrap up.

Ten Cloud Computing Predictions For 2009

Patrick Thibodeau - Twitter
Here's one: A rise in serverless companies with 1000-plus employees.

The death of in-house IT? Only partially... Force.com enables outsourcing IT

TechCrunch
"Let's face it-no matter how tech savvy Gen Y is, enterprises will forever need an IT department. (Some employees can't figure out how to turn on their computers.) But as more and more data moves to the cloud, the role of IT will change."

Salesforce.com develops Force.com Checkout to ease buying and selling of cloud computing apps

Computer Technology Review
Appirio is selected for the Force.com Checkout pilot program, a new set of services developed to accelerate customer and partner success with buying and selling enterprise cloud computing applications.

Google, Salesforce cozy up on cloud services

SD Times
Salesforce.com co-founder Parker Haris discusses Force.com for Google AppEngine with the SD Times: "Startup cloud-computing solution provider Appirio collaborated with Harrah's Casino Hotels to developer a Web application that connects a slot machine Web service, hosted on Google App Engine, with CRM data from Force.com. The composite application tracks gameplay and issues reward points to Harrah's VIP customers."

Salesforce.com, Google Expand Partnership To Google App Engine

InformationWeek
J. Nicholas Hoover analyzes Appirio's work with Force.com for Google App Engine: "Cloud application development and integration startup Appirio worked with Harrah's to create a proof-of-concept web app mashing together a slot machine game that uses Google App Engine with a site for VIP guests that's hosted by Force.com sites."

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal
Appirio is featured as one of the world's most active players in the fast emerging cloud ecosystem.

Salesforce.com builds another bridge to Google's cloud

VentureBeat
Business software company Salesforce.com moves forward with efforts to connect Force.com, its platform for business applications, with Google App Engine.

Services, The Very Critical Part of the On Demand Ecosystem - Appirio

Cloud Ave
Cloud blogger - Prashanth Rai at Cloud Avenue - discusses Appirio, our unique model and some of our recent offerings (including our new Professional Services Essentials product).

Harrah's Bets Big On Salesforce.com Cloud

InformationWeek
Harrah's, which operates numerous high-profile Las Vegas casinos, including Caesar's Palace and The Rio, as well as Harrah's branded properties, will shift applications for managing room reservations, air travel programs, and player relations to Salesforce's Web-based Force.com hosted app service.

Marc Benioff and Parker Harris, of Salesforce.com, demo Appirio's work at Harrah's during the Dreamforce 2008 opening keynote.

System Integrators: A Firsthand, Face-toFace View on the State of SaaS

SIIA On-Demand
Video: Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio, participates in a round table discussion on professional services and SaaS at SIIA On-Demand

It's Different Developing in the Cloud

ZDNet
"One of the hidden secrets of platform-as-a-service is how dramatically it changes the development process. Instead of expending energies on building and managing infrastructure, developers can concentrate on the end result, and they can get there a lot faster because of the collaboration and resource sharing the cloud platform allows." A core belief at Appirio - now "validated" by Microsoft.

Dreamforce 08 Video: New Applications Revealed

ZDNet

Salesforce.com Empowers Developers

eWeek
"With several announcements from its annual Dreamforce user conference, Salesforce.com provides gems to benefit developers. Among them are a new integrated development environment for Salesforce CRM Winter '09 and a new Force.com Sites offering."

Dreamforce: Salesforce.com adds Facebook, Amazon and Neil Young

VentureBeat
Anthony Ha of VentureBeat covers Dreamforce's opening keynote, and highlights the Facebook and Amazon news. Appirio's Facebook application Jobs4MyFriends is featured.

Force.com for Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services Blog
Amazon Web Services provides examples of what is possible with the new Amazon Web Services Toolkit for Force.com - highlighting Appirio's Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com.

Facebook Application - MyFriends@Work

FacebookSpace
"MyFriends@Work is an excellent facebook application which alerts you when your friends do business with your company. It connects with salesforce.com and if you have an account there you can setup and enjoy this service."

SaaS Nets Another Venture Vote

AlwaysOn
Even though times are tough, SaaS services firms thrive: "If Maxplore takes off as Appirio has...the success may lead to more efforts from Salesforce.com to be a SaaS fairy godmother for younger firms."

TimeTrade, Appirio Team Up for Salesforce.com App

TMCnet's Services Community
TimeTrade Systems, a vendor of customer self-service appointment scheduling products, announced that "TimeDriver," co-developed with Appirio, will be unveiled at Dreamforce.

Appirio Allows Companies to Leverage Facebook to Manage Customer Relationships

TMCnet's Call Center Software Community
Susan Campbell covers Appirio's new Facebook application: "Considering the increased use of Facebook in the office, leveraging its capability to actually drive performance rather than reduce productivity is certainly a positive thing that is likely to help drive deployment."

Running Your Business In The Cloud

TechWeb's bMighty.com
Matthew Schwartz profiles "4 businesses with their heads in the clouds" including Appirio and our customer Author Solutions, and discusses the pros and cons of cloud computing.

Fighting Government Waste One Google App At a Time

CIO.com
The Washington D.C. government is migrating its 38,000 employees over to Gmail and Google Apps, which it plans to use for document sharing, spreadsheets and as a wiki. Here's a look at how and why, from cost to continuity.

20 Cloud Computing Startups You Should Know

InformationWeek
Information Week profiles Appirio as one of 20 cloud computing startups changing the industry. "Appirio's products and services, partnerships with cloud and SaaS providers, and expertise in application integration in the cloud are a unique mix."

The Office (2.0): No Paper? No Problem.

ZDNet
Sam Diaz talks to Appirio at Office 2.0: "So now you're convinced that your company needs to make a move into the 2.0 world - but how? Appirio was on-hand to answer that very question."

Appirio Opts for the Cloud Over Servers

InfoWorld
InfoWorld talks to Appirio at Office 2.0: "Can a business be run solely in the cloud without a server anywhere in sight? Appirio says it can and is already doing it."

Appirio Eases On-Demand Integration

vnunet.com
"Appirio, a firm that aims to help enterprises get the most out of their software-as-a-service applications, has released a new product to improve workers' use of disparate on-demand services." reports David Neal at vnunet.com

Google Apps, Salesforce.com Get SaaS Sync from Appirio

eWeek
"Appirio extended its SAAS integration efforts with new personal and premium editions of its synchronization applications for Google and Salesforce.com" reports Clint Boulton at eWeek.

Appirio Tackles Custom Cloud App Development, Sync

InformationWeek
"Appirio represents the leading edge of two new issues enterprises will increasingly need to tackle with the emergence of cloud computing: how best to develop apps for the cloud and how to connect the disparate data they're storing with various service providers."

Republicans Register Delegates on the Cloud

CNET News
"In previous years, delegates had to fill out an eight-page Microsoft Word document and mail it in to convention organizers... This year, the RNC is using a cloud-based system developed by online service companies Appirio and Salesforce.com."

SaaS Mashups Shape up?

ZDNet
Phil Wainewright covers new a SaaS mashup by Xactly, powered by Appirio Gadgets. "Appirio seems to be taking a leading role in enabling such multi-tenant enterprise mashups"

Google Eyes the Enterprise: Suite Smell of Success

CIO Magazine
"The search giant is showing signs of making progress in the enterprise as it targets Microsoft's cash cows of Office and Exchange"

Is Google Your Next Data Center?

Computerworld
Cloud computing is changing the way we think of the IT department, reports Computerworld. Appirio CEO Chris Barbin comments on the changing role of the CIO.

Deal Radar 2008: Appirio

Sramana Mirtra
Sramana discusses the Appirio story: "So far, the most significant evolution arc that I see is the company’s transformation from an integration services shop to a product company".

The Market Implications of Sequoia Capital's Funding of Appirio

THINKstrategies
Jeff Kaplan compares Sequoia's investment in Appirio to previous Sequoia investments and examines implications for the broader industry.

VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds

BusinessWeek
Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm looks at the attention cloud computing is drawing from the VC community, using Sequoia Capital's invest in Appirio as an example. "The game-changing potential of those services has venture firms sitting up and taking notice," she says. "So far this year companies providing cloud services or building services on top of the cloud have raked in more than $70 million."

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

ZDNet, Phil Wainewright
Phil Wainewright analyzes Sequoia Capital's investment in Appirio: "Sequoia’s bet is that Appirio will prove to have been an early mover in bringing the cloud to the enterprise, in the process carving a substantial slice of the $300 billion currently spent each year on traditional on-premise computing solutions."

Appirio gets $5.6M from Sequoia

VentureBeat
Anthony Ha breaks the news of Sequoia Capital's investment in Appirio: "Appirio, an online software startup whose most popular offerings sync data between Salesforce.com and Google products, has raised a $5.6 million second round of funding led by Sequoia Capital."

Podcast - SaaS Integration Issues

SaaS Week
SaaS integration is a commonly cited concern that companies mention when wondering about whether to use SaaS, but companies are finding ways to work around any challenges. SaaS Week's Krissi Danielsson recently spoke with Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio, about SaaS integration.
Click here for the mp3

Takeaways from Cloud Computing Conference Call w/CRM Partners

Citigroup
Brett Thrill hosted a conference call with 5 prominent partners of Salesforce.com. All agreed that customer adoption of SaaS is still early, though growing fast, toward a vast market, and is inevitable. The powerful trend is driven by lower cost and faster innovation, while skepticism over security, scalability, and performance are dissipating (PDF for Citi clients only)

Programmable SaaS? That's platform as a service

SD Times
Alexandra Morales discussed on-demand platforms and Appirio described what and how salesforce's platform has become so compelling.

Pick your PaaS strategy

SD Times
Describes a few of the considerations in evaluating Platform as a Services (PaaS) for your organization. Appirio describes why its more than just an SOA story.

Appirio Contact Sync for Salesforce and Google Announced

CRM Community
David Sims on Appirio's new product offering to synchronize your address book between Salesforce and Google Apps.

Author Solutions Taps Force.com and Platform-as-a-Service to Produce High-quality Books in Less Time, for Less Money

Author Solutions Press Release
Describes solution, developed by Appirio and Author Solutions to manage the entire publishing workflow, from editorial to book layout and cover design to marketing and distribution.

Google Partners Soar in the Cloud

eWeek
Summary of the business roundtable at Google I/O with Appirio discussing the business implications of developing in the cloud

Google I/O: Window Into the Real Future of the Web

BusinessWeek
Summary of a business roundtable at Google I/O, featuring Appirio discussing the near and long term impact of on-demand on the IT industry.

CRM services partners Salesforce.com and Google target Microsoft

Search CRM
Appirio described how the partnership between salesforce.com and google will impact Microsoft.

Salesforce Incubator Companies Reaching For The Cloud

Dow Jones VentureWire
Appirio featured in VentureWire's interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer, salesforce.com, on Appiro's success in the salesforce.com incubator.

Salesforce.com Comes to Town

Destination CRM
Covers Tour De force in New York City and the keynotes with Marc Benioff, Nicholas Carr and Appirio.

Will Salesforce Deal Jump-Start Google Apps Adoption?

eWeek
Appirio counters anaylsts and descirbes the growing momentum of Google Apps

Appirio Describes the Power of the Platform at the salesforce.com - Google Launch

Salesforce.com

Salesforce and Google Team To Conqueor the Enterprise

ZDNet - Phil Wainewright
In depth analysis of Salesforce - Google Announcement.

Partners: Salesforce for Google Apps Proves SAAS Versatility

eWeek
Discusses how the new products from Google, salesforce.com and partners will benefit enterprise customers.

Google-Salesforce details: We love the cloud, we love each other

VentureBeat
Cover the event and announcement and partner applications from Appirio.

Google, Salesforce link up for business apps

CNET
Interview with salesforce.com and Google on the impact of the new products.

Appirio - Attachments in salesforce.com

Amazon Web Services Blog
In depth review of Appirio Cloud Storage for salesforce.com (powered by S3)

Interview: Woodson Martin of Salesforce.com on Mashups and 'Platform as a Service'

Intruders.TV
Salesforce.com's Woodson Marting discusses mashups and Appirio's Gadget Builder

Google Must Make or Break GAPE in 2008

eWeek
Discusses Google Enterprise opportunity in 2008 - Appirio predicts success with large enterprises