Tackling the Potential Problem of SaaS Silos

IT Business Edge
It's an issue Gartner Vice President and Fellow Daryl Plummer raised earlier this month at the Cloud Leadership Summit in San Francisco. It might not be a problem now, but within the next five years, Plummer contends you could be using hundreds of services from different cloud providers, according to this ComputerWorld column by Ryan Nichols.

Provider Spotlight: Appirio (Podcast)

Cloud Computing Podcast
David Linthicum interviews Ryan Nichols regarding Appirio’s role in the world of cloud computing and an insight on CloudWorks.

30 Cloud VARs That Get It

CRN
Appirio: Whether it's salesforce.com, Google or Amazon, San Mateo, Calif.-based Appirio sits squarely in the crosshairs of the cloud. With its unique blend of cloud product and service offerings, the company, founded in 2006, already boasts more than 2,500 customers; and that list continues to grow.

'Plumbing as a Service': why not?

ZDNet
My colleague Phil Wainewright recently posted details about Appirio, a service that Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer is calling a cloud service brokerage. As Phil put it: “Appirio has packaged up the plumbing between cloud applications and is offering the plumbing as a service, on the same ready-to-run, pay-as-you-go terms as the applications themselves.”

Appirio Helps to Lower the Noise

Diversity Limited
Appirio is a great company – they’re a perfect example of how channel partners an survive in a cloudy world. The do exactly what I believe all ISVs will have to do in the years ahead – create vertical offerings that tie together several cloud solutions and sell this on a full-service model to customers.

A new order in systems integration is emerging

ZDNet
Last week, Appirio hosted a great event at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. While the core purpose of the event was to announce the release of their new software product, you might do well to understand who Appirio is and why they are relevant to cloud users and the integration services space.

Appirio Introduces Cloud Broker Technology

TMC.net
Although adoption of cloud has soared in the recent times, most of the enterprises are not using the right technology to utilize the cloud in its full potentials. As for example, with a cloud brokerage system in place, the IT enterprises will be able to better leverage the cloud-model.

Appirio's CloudWorks Aims to Break SaaS Logjam

eCRM Guide
Appirio CloudWorks is designed to help companies build solutions that connect SaaS applications from several platforms, including Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and WorkDay as well as from other developers that support those platforms. The company claims Appirio CloudWorks is as little as one third the cost of other approaches.

CloudWorks: Appirio's cloud integration play

ZDNet
On stage at the launch were representatives from Salesforce.com (SalesWorks), Workday (PeopleWorks) and Google. Co-founder Narinder Singh laid out the background, citing his many years spent integrating data silos to limited effect and arguing: “There has to be a better way.”

Plumbing the clouds

ZDNet
The rise of cloud applications is growing strong enough even to force Microsoft to adapt its latest web browser, IE9, to the trend, as I wrote earlier today. Coincidentally, a separate launch yesterday addressed the same trend, but from a different direction. The vendor, Appirio, is a consulting client [see disclosure] and shared an early preview with me.

Appirio Shatters Cloud Silos With Cloud Broker Technology

CRN
Appirio wants to tear down the walls that silo the cloud. And with the launch of its CloudWorks cloud broker technology, the solution provider now adds cross-cloud solutions to its arsenal that mesh once-disparate clouds, like sales, marketing, HR and others.

IDC Names 2010 Innovative Software Companies Under $100M to Watch, as Application Software Responds to the Social Web, Cloud Delivery Models, and Increased Use of Mobile Applications

IDC
"Business has changed. The social web, cloud delivery models, and an increased use of mobile in the enterprise are all impacting businesses and the enterprise application software needed to facilitate business change," said Michael Fauscette, group vice president, Software Business Solutions. "Contributing to much needed innovation in enterprise software is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to help businesses deal more effectively with the new business environment."

Tale of an Accidental Cloud Leader

Network World
"One of our partners, Appirio, a cloud solution provider based in California, is helping us connect our Salesforce CRM and Google collaboration platforms so if employees are in one system they don't need to re-enter or change information in other systems. We think this is a way to make our employees more productive, encourage even greater adoption of the systems we have, and improve the quality of data we have in these systems at the same time."