Appirio Ups Social CRM Game With TRE3 Buy

"Cloud solution provider Appirio on Monday made its first acquisition, scooping up the TRE3 Group, which adds new collaborative selling and social CRM weapons to Appirio's cloud computing arsenal."

Loosely coupled crowd development

Enterprise Irregulars
"Last week saw the launch of an initiative that perhaps models the shape of this impending disruptive change. Cloud integrator Appirio [disclosure: a recent client] announced CloudSpokes, which aims to bring a crowdsourced, community approach to enterprise cloud development tasks"

Purolator dispatches call centre system to the cloud

IT World Canada
"Besides Salesforce.com’s own team, Innovapost also worked with a software-as-a-service company called Appirio Inc. based in San Mateo, Calif. to assist with the integration work."

Verizon, Time Warner Acquisitions: Harbingers for Change, Cloud Consolidation

CRN
..."It validates the inevitability of this shift [toward the cloud] and the desires of all players in this ecosystem...to figure out what their role is going to be in this world," said Ryan Nichols, vice president of solutions marketing and strategy for San Mateo, Calif.-based solution provider Appirio. Nichols added that Verizon acquiring Terremark and Time Warner Cable buying NaviSite show that it's important to every type of player -- telcos, systems integrators, solution providers, and more – to investigate the cloud market and that they're "waking up and realizing how different it is"...