Gmail Integration Battle - Cirrus Insight vs Appirio Cloudworks

Trineo

...It’s great to see these products that customers have been craving finally come to market. It’s a shame that Salesforce.com didn’t build an official integration like this a long time ago.

After using the 2 products side by side (literally with Cirrus Insight to the right of an email and Cloudworks underneath) I’d give the slight edge to Cloudworks at this time. They are both very good products but Cloudworks is slightly cheaper and offers a little bit more functionality.

No longer can it be an excuse that it’s too hard to keep the CRM up to date!

Cloud service broker Appirio: Focus on fewer partners, avoid the hype

SearchCloudProvider

Editor's note: If there's any concrete evidence of how cloud computing is changing the channel, it might be the emergence of a new species of channel partner, the cloud service broker -- part consultant, part integrator and all cloud.

Glenn Weinstein, CTO of cloud service broker Appirio, shared his vision for 2012 in the third of our four-part Q&A series on cloud provider strategy for the year ahead. Appirio -- which partners with Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com and Workday -- is on a mission to expose what it sees as the market's biggest liability: cloud washers. The cloud service broker's tongue-in-cheek awards ceremony, the Cloud Washies, modeled after Hollywood's unofficial "Razzies" (honoring the worst movies of the year), took aim at Oracle and Microsoft as some of the worst offenders.

It's unclear what marketing tricks Appirio has up its sleeve for 2012, but Weinstein told SearchCloudProvider.com that its business and technical strategy as a cloud broker is well-defined: Go global and go enterprise...

How Appirio can help transform your sales and business process

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Despite the countless advantages cloud computing offers to enterprises, adoption has been steady yet slow. Now one company in San Mateo is changing all that.

Appirio, founded in 2006 by Chris Barbin, Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien, offers a full range of cloud computing services that is helping businesses make the transition to cloud computing easier, faster and in a more cost-effective way. Apart from offering a predefined set of solutions and services — they’re also working on innovation in cloud integration, mobile cloud and social enterprise. And here’s the best part, they do all this serious work while still maintaining a very healthy sense of humor.