Salesforce To Buy Social Media Co Radian6 For $326M

The Wall Street Journal
... "It's crucial for companies to have technology that can monitor their customers," said Narinder Singh, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Appirio, a San Mateo-based cloud services provider and one of Salesforce's largest independent partners. "It's all about understanding and interacting with customers these days," Singh added...

Appirio Bulks Up Salesforce Presence With Infowelders Buy

CRN
...Cloud solution provider Appirio kept the acquisition train rolling Monday with the buyout of Infowelders, a Salesforce.com consulting and ISV player, a move that further sharpens Appirio's chops as a Salesforce partner...

Crowdsourcing: The New Comparative Advantage?

Crowdsourcing matched with markets offers an important and emerging tool in individual, corporate, and macro-economic collaboration. Participating in and exploring these mechanisms creates emergent experience and the potential for discontinuous innovation. The crowd is coming, its simply a question of if you will be leading or following it.

Quake and IT: Shaking in Tokyo, waiting in San Diego

When the earthquake struck in Japan mid-afternoon, Jason Park was in his office in Tokyo on the 39th floor. It started with a mild tremor, something that happens every few months. "We didn't think anything of it until the tremor didn't stop," said Park, who is general manager of Japan operations for Appirio, a San Francisco-based cloud services firm.

The SaaS list: A look at current on-demand favorites

Ask a bunch of enterprise experts what their favorite software as a service providers and you’re bound to get a lively debate—and a nice survey of the field. What follows is an list of the SaaS landscape and notable companies to track.

Cross-ocean clouds gain despite millisecond delays

"The company undertook the project with the help of Appirio Inc., a San Francisco-based firm that helps businesses set up cloud platforms. Appirio helped architect and tune the system to provide "almost the same level of response time" as the conventional system, said Futami."

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"...

How Many SaaS Apps – and Trading Partners – Are YOU Integrating?

Gartner
...B2B integration specialists (e.g., IBM, GXS, Hubspan, Liaison) and cloud-focused system integrators (e.g., Appirio, Bluewolf, Celigo) offer cloud services brokerage...

11 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2011

CRN
Mobile devices become the primary means of accessing enterprise cloud applications -- just as they've become the primary means of accessing the internet. Mobile internet usage is undergoing the fastest technology adoption curve in history...

Peninsula Jobless Rate Remains State’s Second-Lowest

Palo Alto Daily News
...Things are getting so hot in the cloud computing job market that a San Mateo company parked a taco truck in front of a software developer conference in San Francisco recently and handed out free tacos. The gimmick was just a way to get the company’s name, Appirio, in front of potential job candidates, said co-founder and chief marketing director Narinder Singh...

Tablets Will Rock the Enterprise This Year

ReadWriteWeb
...At Dreamforce late last year, we had breakfast one morning with the team from Appirio, a services company that helps companies integrate Salesforce.com into their enterprise environment. At the table sat an IT executive from a healthcare organization. He talked about the transition to an enterprise running on Apple hardware...

Government IT to the Cloud: Private Sector Lessons

GCN
...However, in the four years that Appirio has provided products and consulting services to large organizations moving to the public cloud, we have witnessed a significant shift in priorities. We encounter far less resistance from the CIOs and IT rank-and-file to the notion of migrating to cloud-based systems...

Cloud Computing: A Shift From IT Luxury to Business Necessity

Huffington Post
...Silicon Valley-based Appirio, a cloud solution provider that has helped hundreds of large enterprises adopt cloud computing, has had its fingers on the pulse of "the cloud" for the last four years. The change, over even the last two years, has been dramatic...

Appirio: early cloud adopters like what they are getting but integration issues loom

ZDNet
Appirio has released the results of a public cloud adopter survey taken from the perspective of those who are already using cloud solutions/services. In one sense the results should not be surprising. For example: 67% believe TCO is somewhat or significantly better compared to on-premise or that 52% believe they get less vendor lock-in.

The Web’s Big Upstart

Forbes (Asia)
Narinder Singh, cofounder of Appirio, which develops software alongside Salesforce, disagrees. "It gives you the frame of the house to build on top of. All the crucial but tedious stuff developers hate doing--reporting, data mining, security--is taken care of," he says.

Cloud Computing Collaboration: Appirio Marries Salesforce Chatter, Google Apps

CRN
Cloud computing collaboration is one of the big selling points of cloud applications, and Appirio took that message to heart at DreamForce 2010 in San Francisco on Tuesday with the addition of Salesforce Chatter to Google Apps.

Here Come the Cloud Services Brokers

Bloomberg Businessweek
As companies start shifting computing tasks to outside providers in the cloud, intermediaries have emerged to help them do it. Systems Integrator Appirio has already made a name for itself.

Start-up Uses Taco Truck to Lure Job Seekers

ABC 7 News/KGO-TV
A Bay Area company is pulling out gimmicks to find prospective workers. Internet start-up Appirio of San Mateo handed out free tacos outside an industry convention at San Francisco's Moscone Center.

Software is Roadkill

The Cloud Blog (salesforce.com official blog)
But that's not enough for CloudBlog - we needed even more clarification, so we asked Narinder Singh (Founder, CMO, and head of products at Appirio - one of the fastest-growing systems integrators and product development organizations in the world) - why is cloud the best choice for VCs?

Corporate Apps and Data Are Moving to the Cloud

Harvard Business Review’s The Daily Stat
68% of IT decision makers at midsized to large North American companies say that within three years, the majority of their daily applications and online data will no longer run on local servers and instead will run in the public cloud (aka the internet), according to a survey by cloud-solution provider Appirio. But integration and its consequent savings in time and money remain elusive: Only 4% of respondents say their cloud apps work together seamlessly.

Interview: Narinder Singh of Appirio

ZDNet
Appirio is a new kind of integrator. In the four years since the company was founded, the company has completed over hundreds of engagements. Much of their work is focused on connecting cloud solutions like Google Apps, Workday ERP and Salesforce.com CRM to each other and work on hand-held devices.

How Do Public Cloud Early Adopters Think About Cloud Computing?

ReadWriteWeb
Cloud management company Appirio, seeing that most surveys on the subject of cloud computing focused on the industry as a whole, sponsored a survey of public cloud early adopters to see how they view the state of the public cloud.

All that SAAS - Converging Trends Driven By This Rapidly Evolving Model

Trend POV
Ryan Nichols, Head of Product Management and Marketing for Appirio, discusses how SaaS is driving a convergence of trends affecting your business, where it will go in the future and what it all means for how you run your business.

IT Survey Spotlights Cloud Computing's Potential, Misconceptions

Datamation
Hoping to bring more clarity to the issue, cloud solution provider Appirio has just released results from a survey of IT decision-makers that details what cloud computing adopters see as the technology's benefits as well as what many see as "misconceptions" in the broader IT community.

Cloud Computing Adopters Satisfied with Benefits: Survey

Channel Insider
Experienced cloud adopters see public cloud solutions as a significant improvement from their traditional on-premises counterparts, and cite the cloud's positive and strategic impact on their business and IT organization, according to a survey commissioned by cloud solution provider Appirio.

Myopia and Entropy – IT’s Great Escape

Enterprise Irregulars
I and my highly motivated CloudBlog production crew got a chance to interview one of the fastest growing systems integrators about this phenomenon. Glenn Weinstein is the CTO of Appirio. He and his founders all came from on premise software companies (SAP, WebMethods, Borland, etc.) and bet their careers and their dollars on the public cloud.

Where IT Workers Must Go Next (Or Integrators Will Do It For Them)

ZDNet
Appirio has recently released the results of a great study on cloud adoption by large enterprises. A lot of what they discovered mirrors what I personally observed in a research study I did earlier this year on the same subject. Some of the interesting statistics in their report are...

Cloud Services Brokerage Is Built On Markets Near 1 Trillion In Spend!

Gartner
I finished rewriting the definition of cloud services brokerage. Benoit Lheruex and I have been working steadily on this and are seeing notables such as Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM all begin to plan for a significant brokerage future alonside upstarts like Appirio, Boomi, and even stalwarts like GXS.

Tackling the Potential Problem of SaaS Silos

IT Business Edge
It's an issue Gartner Vice President and Fellow Daryl Plummer raised earlier this month at the Cloud Leadership Summit in San Francisco. It might not be a problem now, but within the next five years, Plummer contends you could be using hundreds of services from different cloud providers, according to this ComputerWorld column by Ryan Nichols.

Provider Spotlight: Appirio (Podcast)

Cloud Computing Podcast
David Linthicum interviews Ryan Nichols regarding Appirio’s role in the world of cloud computing and an insight on CloudWorks.

30 Cloud VARs That Get It

CRN
Appirio: Whether it's salesforce.com, Google or Amazon, San Mateo, Calif.-based Appirio sits squarely in the crosshairs of the cloud. With its unique blend of cloud product and service offerings, the company, founded in 2006, already boasts more than 2,500 customers; and that list continues to grow.

'Plumbing as a Service': why not?

ZDNet
My colleague Phil Wainewright recently posted details about Appirio, a service that Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer is calling a cloud service brokerage. As Phil put it: “Appirio has packaged up the plumbing between cloud applications and is offering the plumbing as a service, on the same ready-to-run, pay-as-you-go terms as the applications themselves.”

Appirio Helps to Lower the Noise

Diversity Limited
Appirio is a great company – they’re a perfect example of how channel partners an survive in a cloudy world. The do exactly what I believe all ISVs will have to do in the years ahead – create vertical offerings that tie together several cloud solutions and sell this on a full-service model to customers.

A new order in systems integration is emerging

ZDNet
Last week, Appirio hosted a great event at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. While the core purpose of the event was to announce the release of their new software product, you might do well to understand who Appirio is and why they are relevant to cloud users and the integration services space.

Appirio Introduces Cloud Broker Technology

TMC.net
Although adoption of cloud has soared in the recent times, most of the enterprises are not using the right technology to utilize the cloud in its full potentials. As for example, with a cloud brokerage system in place, the IT enterprises will be able to better leverage the cloud-model.

Appirio's CloudWorks Aims to Break SaaS Logjam

eCRM Guide
Appirio CloudWorks is designed to help companies build solutions that connect SaaS applications from several platforms, including Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and WorkDay as well as from other developers that support those platforms. The company claims Appirio CloudWorks is as little as one third the cost of other approaches.

CloudWorks: Appirio's cloud integration play

ZDNet
On stage at the launch were representatives from Salesforce.com (SalesWorks), Workday (PeopleWorks) and Google. Co-founder Narinder Singh laid out the background, citing his many years spent integrating data silos to limited effect and arguing: “There has to be a better way.”

Plumbing the clouds

ZDNet
The rise of cloud applications is growing strong enough even to force Microsoft to adapt its latest web browser, IE9, to the trend, as I wrote earlier today. Coincidentally, a separate launch yesterday addressed the same trend, but from a different direction. The vendor, Appirio, is a consulting client [see disclosure] and shared an early preview with me.

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.

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."

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."

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.

Narinder Singh, Appirio: Building a Business in the Clouds

My PC Cloud

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.”

AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford

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