Appirio, a cloud integration and consulting firm, outlined its 2013 plans and indicated that it plans to use its human capital management focus as a springboard to new implementations in mobile, CRM and collaboration.
The company on Thursday outlined a deal to make Cornerstone OnDemand as its preferred talent management partner. That partnership, along with the acquisition of Knowledge Infusion, has made Appirio the go-to cloud HCM integration outfit.
Not surprisingly, Appirio's 2013 focus areas break down like this:
- Expand the HCM practice and make "people-based processes less tactical and more transformational -- across every functional area." In HCM, Appirio is pushing Workday and Cornerstone. According to Cornerstone CEO Adam Miller, speaking on a November earnings conference call, his company is a partner with Workday, but may tread on co-opetition. Appirio will have to be Switzerland should those two partners wind up duking it out.
- Appirio will take CloudSpokes, its community and cloud platform, and extend it more to independent software vendors.
- The company aims to bring more analytics and metrics to customers.
- And add global development centers around the world to support its core efforts as well as "a growing number of CRM, HCM, collaboration and mobile-focused customer engagements."
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