Appirio in the News

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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."

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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."

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Top cloud computing startups: Appirio

TechTarget.com
Appirio is another startup with astounding rates of growth -- in the triple digits since 2008 with no signs of slowing. It also has an impressive badge collection of more than 180 customers, including Avon Cosmetics and BMC Software. Appirio is a classic middleman, this time for cloud, that enterprises can use to stitch together on-premise and outside Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, as well as its own professional services automation (PSA) platform.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Calling all cloud skeptics

ZDNet
If there is such a person out there, then I urge their fans to nominate him or her to take part in the Summer Slam 2010 webcast debate with myself and several other cloud supporters taking place later this month. Organised by cloud integrator Appirio...

Republicans Register Delegates On The Cloud

wiideos.com
“In previous years, trying to consolidate all the information was virtually impossible,” said Mike O’Brien, co-founder of Appirio. “With this all you need is a log-in and a password.”

Sunday, June 27, 2010

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford

AlwaysOn
Event Recording: Panel - The Anatomy of a Successful Startup in 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Building Your Business In The Cloud

Business Solutions
"We aggressively push the cloud, telling our customers that if they aren't pushing 10% of their IT spend (on people, projects, apps) – to the public cloud each year, they will overspend on IT and be lapped by their competition" Singh told the 270-plus services providers gathered for the Cloud Summit hosted by Ingram Micro in Dallas on June 7.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Appirio Guarantees Cloud Savings

InformationWeek
Appirio wants to help small and medium sized companies move to the cloud, and it is guaranteeing that they will save $1 million off their IT budget if they do so.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Appirio: We guarantee cloud computing will save companies $1M

IDG News Service\Boston Bureau
Appirio launched a new offer Thursday, pledging that if customers who use its "cloudsourcing" services to migrate entirely to public cloud applications and technologies don't save at least US$1 million per year, it will make up the difference.

Appirio: We guarantee cloud computing will save companies $1M

VentureBeat
Ryan Nichols, Appirio’s vice president of “cloudsourcing” and cloud strategy, said that with the San Mateo, Calif. startup’s help, switching to the cloud should save companies at least $1 million a year. If it doesn’t, Appirio will pay off the difference by providing its services for free.

Appirio Offers $1 Million Cloud Computing Guarantee

ChannelWeb
"Appirio said Thursday that it will guarantee businesses that outsource their entire IT infrastructure to Appirio's cloud services will save at least $1 million a year or the solution provider will make up the difference."

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

How the Email Inbox Can Become An App Platform

GigaOM
One company that’s already been able to play around with Gmail Contextual Gadgets is Appirio, which built a demo that shows how you can manage employees and customers with a solution built on Salesforce’s Force.com cloud platform. Watch the screencast here.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

AlwaysOn Announces Inaugural 'OnDemand 100' List of Fastest Growing Private Companies

AlwaysOn
The overall winner of the "OnDemand 100" is Appirio, a cloud solution provider that offers both products and professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of the cloud.

Design thinking: the next gen apps frontier?

ZDNet
Dennis Howlett included Appirio in his post discussing next generation business applications in Irregular Enterprise (a ZD Net blog) today. Dennis incorporated part of a conversation he had with Narinder last week to further explain how to co-mingle services like Chatter, Google Apps and Salesforce for professional services organizations.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Four Things CIOs Need to Know About Cloudsourcing

CIOZone.com
Cloudsourcers such as Appirio claim that cloudsourcing can provide a 30 percent to 50 pecent reduction in total cost of ownership by dramatically lowering hardware and IT personnel costs. It also affords improved business agility by delivering a set of pre-integrated cloud applications that make it possible to move quickly to meet the needs of the business.

Google Gains Channel Momentum

Redmond Channel Partner
Appirio Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based solutions provider that has migrated 15,000 employees at the pharmaceutical giant Genentech Inc. from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, is among those who joined the Google Apps Authorized Reseller program, according to Cho.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

SETTING THE ENTERPRISE FREE

Workday
Appirio founder Narinder Singh believes integration for cloud computing will improve, particularly as more companies do SaaS-to-SaaS integrations. “Workday, Saleforce.com, and Google have fantastic APIs (application programmable interfaces),” he says. “It’s always the other side that’s harder to integrate. Where I think that can change is by having more of the center of gravity in the cloud.”

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Retention and Compliance: The other side of the big data problem

Ramon Chen: Cloud 'N Clear
...It’s one of the reasons why I included them in my Cloud Fantasy Investing list together with Appirio, who are fast become the foremost experts in Cloud Computing, with thought leadership blog posts and innovative connectors...

Google Apps Has a Marketplace and Instant Failover

InfoQ
Professional Services Connect (PS Connect): This new cloud-based offering coming soon from Appirio, pulls contextually relevant information on people, projects, customers and transactions from a user's domain and surfaces it directly inside a Gmail message so services professionals can make more informed, real-time decisions.

Appirio Bets On The Cloud ... And Wins

ChannelWeb
The company steps in the ring, gloves laced and ready for battle. When the bell rings, it strikes with speed, agility and precision. In the world of cloud computing solution providers, consider Appirio the Manny Pacquiao: pound for pound the one of the best in the biz. "We can package what we learn into SaaS products built onto platforms," said Nichols. "We have 5,000 customers that use products that connect and extend Google, Salesforce, Amazon and Facebook."

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Appirio - Top 10 cloud computing startups for 2010

Jamie V. C. Grenney
Appirio's integration between Gmail and Salesforce is pretty amazing. They pull CRM data and data from custom objects in Salesforce right into your gmail conversation when it is relevant.

IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges

Enterprise Irregulars
For a cloud integration company like Appirio this stuff seems old hat at best.

Appirio's Ryan Nichols presents at Cloud Connect - Launchpad Final 4

Cloud Connect

Friday, March 12, 2010

Integrating with Google Apps using Gmail contextual gadgets

Google Apps Developer Blog
Appirio, a cloud solution provider, provided a demonstration of the potential of Gmail contextual gadgets and other experimental features with their new product PS Connect.

T Shirt Friday #34 - Appirio

Cloud Ave
Julie Tangen from the Appirio media agency dropped me an email and asked me if I’d like to look at some of the t shirts they had. A couple of weeks later a package turned up for me with a host of Appirio shirts in it – all in black. Look for more Appirio schwag in upcoming reviews.

Google Apps Marketplace For Businesses

TheCTOForum
Professional Services Connect (PS Connect): This new cloud-based offering coming soon from Appirio, pulls contextually relevant information on people, projects, customers and transactions from a user's domain and surfaces it directly inside a Gmail message so services professionals can make more informed, real-time decisions.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Appirio Announces New Professional Services Connect Offering Through the Google Apps Marketplace

ebizQ
Appirio today announced Professional Services Connect (PS Connect), a new cloud-based offering that enables service professionals using Appirio's PS Enterprise product to run their business directly from their email inbox.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Appirio's Ryan Nichols, presents PS Connect at Google Campfire One

Google Campfire One

Open for business: the Google Apps Marketplace

The Official Google Blog
Professional Services Connect (PS Connect): This new cloud-based offering coming soon from Appirio, pulls contextually relevant information on people, projects, customers and transactions from a user's domain and surfaces it directly inside a Gmail message so services professionals can make more informed, real-time decisions.

The Skinny on Google's New SMB Application Marketplace

Cloud Ave
Coming up on the road map are what Google calls contextual gadgets – in the same way that Gmail is now automatically embedding YouTube videos with Gmail, so too could application developers chose to have contextual data from their apps embedded in an email – see the image below showing Appirio data within Gmail. This is from a real product “PS Connect” that Appirio are demo-ing at the Google CampFire right now.

Google Launches the Google Apps Marketplace

Mashable
Last demo of the night: Ryan from Appirio, a cloud solution provider. It’s a tool for managing your team’s cloud applications, such as Salesforce. It’s meant to transition enterprise into the cloud more effectively.

What’s next for Google’s Apps Marketplace — contextual gadgets and more

Venture Beat
For example, a company called Appirio has built tool that allows users to bring up Salesforce sales lead information right in their emails.

Helping Companies Move Computing to the Cloud

BusinessWeek
That same year, Chris Barbin decided to reunite a group of colleagues from his former employer, webMethods, to start a venture that would help businesses tap into programs and services accessed on the Web. Barbin, who was chief information officer at Borland Software in Cupertino, Calif., pooled $100,000 with Glenn Weinstein, Mike O’Brien, and Narinder Singh to launch Appirio.

Live: Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One

TechCrunch
Here’s a demo from Appirio – a cloud solution provider.

Google Apps Marketplace Launches as New Cloud Computing Store

eWeek.com
This will provide third-party software developers, such as Appirio, Intuit, Atlassian and others, with a larger cloud computing channel into which to sell their applications.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Innovations in service delivery

Deal Architect
I blogged recently about The Outsourcing Famine – little innovation in “business models and global delivery models and their partnering with interesting new technologies” with exceptions in firms like Cognizant and emerging ones like Appirio and Corefino...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Google Gains Momentum with Apps

Redmondmag.com
Appirio, a San Mateo, Calif.-based solution provider that has migrated 15,000 employees at the pharmaceutical giant Genentech from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, is among those who joined the Google Apps Authorized Reseller program, according to Cho.

Service providers look to play the cloud game

The Economic Times
Appirio, a specialist player who helps enterprises implement cloud-based solutions, was co-founded by Narinder Singh, who quit his position with enterprise software leader SAP to start the firm. “All our founders came from traditional enterprise software backgrounds from companies such as Borland, WebMethods, SAP and Accenture. Four years ago, we saw a shift happening in the marketplace and felt there was a need for a new type of partner to help enterprises move to the cloud. That’s why we founded Appirio,” said Balakrishna Narasimhan, senior director, marketing and strategy, Appirio.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Four New Cloud Computing Favorites

InformationWeek
Appirio has developed what it describes as "the world’s first social services-management application for the enterprise." The app, called Social PS Enterprise, is an implementation of Salesforce.com's new Chatter collaboration functionality, and it gives professional services teams a shot of social networking capabilities, such as real-time chat. It works with Appirio's Professional Services Enterprise (PS Enterprise), which is software as a service and based on Salesforce's Force.com.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Cloud Computing Fantasy Private Company Investing – Appirio, Aster, Cloudera, Voltage, Zuora

Ramon Chen: Cloud 'N Clear
In this post, I’m going to take a quick look at how companies I personally follow are doing, picking out my favorite 5. I’m calling it my cloud computing fantasy private company portfolio. Bascially if I had some fantasy VC money to invest, here’s where I’d like to put my bets. Note that generally it’s a good idea to diversify your portfolio...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

How Chatter May Win the Enterprise 2.0 Game (Maybe Even CRM)

Customer Think
Once we get past the misunderstanding over price, the second issue was not knowing what “it can do”. I can see that as a more significant issue in the long run, and one that will be a barrier to adoption. While they showcased clients who are currently using it, these were the same ones I saw at Dreamforce (excellent implementations and both have matured some since then, Appirio showed their PSA and Vetrazzo showed how they run the entire company among others).

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Chatter Private Beta Launch San Francisco

Chatter Private Launch
Narinder Singh shows what is possible with salesforce.com's Chatter - On stage with Marc Benioff

Not A Rumor: Salesforce Chatter Goes Beta

CRN
"We think the collaboration will be a huge benefit for our customers," said Narinder Singh, chief marketing officer at Appirio, a San Mateo, Calif.-based cloud application solution provider. Appirio offers cloud software, including a professional services system built on Salesforce's Force.com platform, combined with a range of consulting services. The company has built Chatter into a new version of its professional services application called "Social PS Enterprise" and will make that available once Chatter is released. Singh said that application could be used for a range of professional services tasks such as skills management and employee certification.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Amazon, Salesforce.com, Google Continue to Lead the Cloudsphere

Web 2.0 Journal
Listed as one of the Top 25 Cloud Services Providers gaining mind share in the first quarter of 2010.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

CA Wants to Be the Enterprise Watchdog in the Cloud

GigaOM
Appirio: Appirio would bring a much-needed services angle to CA’s cloud offerings. Managing and monitoring services and infrastructure is great, but helping customers transition to cloud computing and/or SaaS, even helping them develop new cloud-based applications, adds an incredible amount of value to any company serious about pushing cloud solutions. Appirio also offers Cloud Connectors, which bridge Salesforce.com applications with Google Apps, Amazon Web Services and/or Facebook. But the services business would be the real key if CA made this move.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The CloudConnect Launch Pad Finalists!

Cloud Ave
Appirio named one of eight finalists for the CloudConnect Launch Pad. Vote for our video!

Friday, February 5, 2010

The Outsourcing Famine

Deal Architect
Most recent innovation in application management services has come from SaaS vendors like salesforce and NetSuite, data centers from cloud providers like amazon, systems integration from next gen service firms like appirio which does SaaS implementations and develops its own software and process services from firms like Corefino, which is blending BPO and SaaS into its services.
 
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