Appirio bringing Google Apps to more universities nationwide

ZDNet

...Appirio steps in to help the university with initial planning, tuning the platform’s architecture, the actual implementation, and training employees about the new capabilities. Ryan Nichols, vice president of solution marketing at Appirio, said that a lot of the existing platforms at these schools are “older and brittle…so we have to be more careful about the migration plan.”

One of the reasons why universities are moving to the cloud, particularly with Google Apps, isn’t too revolutionary: the promise of cost reduction. That’s fairly standard at this point.

Nichols also pointed out another reason: students are coming into college with different expectations as they are likely already educated in some sort of cloud collaboration. He also noted what impact this will have on the next generation of the virtual workforce...

Appirio Ties Together Apple iOS, Salesforce For Swift Mobile App Dev

CRN
...Cloud solution provider Appirio launched a new Mobile Application Development Framework on Monday that the company said ties together Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iOS and Salesforce.com to ease the creation and deployment of apps to Apple's iPhone and iPad.

According to San Mateo, Calif.-based Appirio, the Mobile Application Development Framework gives cloud providers and customers the ability to build custom, native mobile apps without the need to write native Apple iOS device code. Using Salesforce.com's Force.com cloud app development platform, the Appirio framework lets users build, deploy and manage applications for Apple iOS...

Five reasons why cloud computing is essential for health care

SearchHealthIT
...The core benefits of cloud computing match perfectly with the demands that health care IT departments are being asked to fulfill. By utilizing cloud-based platforms like Force.com, Google, Workday and Amazon, health care IT departments can shake-off the burden of supporting on-premise applications that don’t directly affect patient care. With more time and resources to focus on improving IT, these departments can better support patient-driven initiatives...

Appirio Helps Develop New Salesforce.com Mobile Apps

ReadWriteHack
...Cloud solution provider Appirio announced today a new mobile application framework that enables consultants and customers to build custom, native mobile apps without writing native iOS device code for extending Salesforce.com to mobile apps. The company has created four app templates that include common UI, data queries and gesture movements that can be used to assemble a custom app to do surveys, searches, time tracking and interact with geographic data. No doubt more will be on the way...

The Boss Can Build Apps Now

Fast Company
...Appirio's just released a software package that lets enterprise customers put together an iPad or iPhone app almost on a click-and-drag basis. The apps are hooked together using Salesforce.com's cloud-based systems, and pushed out "live" to business's iPad users....