Small Law Firm Woos Clients With Monthly Subscription Fees

Law.com
Earlier this year, executives at San Mateo, Calif., cloud computing startup Appirio Inc. were looking for a way to cut legal costs. The big firm the company was using wasn't too interested in entertaining flat-fee billing at the time, said Jim Emerich, Appirio's chief financial officer (he declined to name the firm). So the company's work went to Smithline Jha, Emerich said, after a beauty contest that attracted four competitors.

Why not cloudsourcing for enterprise app user adoption/training?

Velocity Made Good
From Ryan Nichols: "Where cloud computing meets outsourcing... It's the natural combination of two trends that have dominated how enterprises utilize information technology over the last 2 decades..."

Is Chatter the Killer App for Force.com?

ebizQ
Appirio's Narinder Singh went on stage to demonstrate how Chatter's alerting capability will make it much easier to keep everyone abreast of important developments within its professional services automation application.

Appirio Releases Cloud Computing Predictions for 2010

ebizQ
"Customer success is the true measure of the cloud's effectiveness," said Ryan Nichols, head of cloudsourcing and cloud strategy for Appirio. "In 2009 we saw innovative enterprises such as Japan Post, Avon, and Starbucks demonstrate the business case for cloud computing. In 2010, that success will go mainstream."

Microsoft Azure Will Cannibalize a Global Account -Appirio

Cloud Computing Journal
"Customer success is the true measure of the cloud's effectiveness," said Ryan Nichols, head of cloudsourcing and cloud strategy for Appirio. "In 2009 we saw innovative enterprises such as Japan Post, Avon, and Starbucks demonstrate the business case for cloud computing. In 2010, that success will go mainstream."

Appirio Predicted Windows Azure Disappointment in 2009

Cloud Computing Journal
"Appirio's predictions reveal that in spite of our current economy, cloud computing will continue to see strong growth and investment over the next year -- a prediction that industry analysts agree with as well. As more and more companies like Flextronics, Genentech and Harrah's publicly discuss their experience with cloud computing, it will pave the way for even more adoption over the coming year.

Firms Must Embrace Modern Marketing Strategies

RainMaker Blog
Your engagement with prospects and clients can also be improved via cloud computing services such as Salesforce and Google Apps, saysRyan Nichols in his article Using Cloud Computing to Grow Your Services Firm. By employing such technology, firms can spend less attention on IT and more attention on clients and growing the firm. Such applications also allow firms to engage with clients, consultants, and the broader community using next-generation sales and marketing techniques that aren’t possible using traditional on-premise applications, Nichols says.

List of Companies Providing Social CRM Offerings

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
Appirio: Offers the ability for companies to create applications on Facebook which then marry data back to Salesforce, called Cloud Connectors.

What Goes Mobile?

InformationWeek
...After reviewing many options, RehabCare developed a prototype of a mobile app in four days, with some help from cloud computing consulting firm Appirio, that runs on Salesforce.com's cloud computing platform, Force.com...

Developing in the cloud with Force.com PaaS (Podcast)

SearchSOA.com
When it comes to development on the Force.com Platform as a Service (PaaS), few are more knowledgeable than Jason Ouellette, author of the new book, Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud.

Dreamforce: Releases Galore

destinationCRM.com
Appirio: Used internally for the past three months, Appirio publicly released its cloud ecosystem map to help ease the experience of navigating Salesforce.com's AppExchange.

New frontier or cloud cuckoo land?

The Irish Times
Narinder Singh, chief executive of Appirio, a cloud implementation partner, stressed that Force was not just about applications adjacent to CRM. He said it served people and projects better than inventory and assets, the hotspot for traditional business software.

Using Cloud Computing to Grow Your Services Firm

RainToday
Professional service firms of all stripes have been telling their clients for years to focus on their core competence. This advice is what drives the existence of the professional services industry...

Why Force.com Is Important To Cloud Computing

InformationWeek
Wednesday morning, I joined cloud computing consulting startup Appirio (which has grown to 150 employees in three years, all on Force.com consulting and development deals), and some of its customers for breakfast.

Valley startups rising up from the graveyard

MercuryNews.com
Appirio, he said, avoided layoffs and its business has thrived through downturn. In a tough venture market, the company in February raised third-round funding of $10 million from GGV Capital and Sequoia. Appirio, so far, has opted against acquisitions, and Barbin said it is well-positioned to grow organically.

Dreamforce Day 2 Keynote - Part 2

Dreamforce 2009
Ryan Nichols (Appirio) and Annemarie Frank (Director of Ecommerce and Alliances - Avon) show off a word-of-mouth application that combines force.com and Facebook

Dreamforce Day 2 Keynote - Part 1

Dreamforce 2009
Narinder Singh shows what is possible with salesforce.com's Chatter - On stage with Marc Benioff

Appirio’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map

Deal Architect
They showed it to me on a printout a few months ago, and I kew I had to go get new glasses – it’s their cloud ecosystem map, which you can magnify on-line. Gives you an idea of the bewildering pace at which cloud vendors are proliferating.

A Map To Better Understand The Cloud Ecosystem...And The Hype

ReadWriteEnterprise
...Appirio is offering a map that shows the cloud ecosystem. The map breaks out 70 different layers of technology across applications, platforms and infrastructure. The map is pretty sophisticated with the ability to drill down to understand the underlying technologies.

Appirio launches interactive cloud computing map

VentureBeat
Companies often realize the potential of cloud computing but lack the resources and knowledge to proceed with any kind of integration. Enter Appirio, a startup cloud solution provider, that has launched a public tool to bring some clarity to the sometimes daunting cloud.

Top 20 Cloud Services Providers That Are Gaining Mind Share

Utilizer
Appirio named #2 of top 20 Cloud Services Providers gaining mind share.

A Window Into Microsoft's Conundrum

Forbes.com
Then there's Azure, the ambitious project to create a new platform for customers to outsource critical computing functions to Microsoft data centers (“the Internet cloud”). The system, of course, competes with traditional products like Windows and Microsoft's software for big corporate servers, which companies run themselves. "There is going to be conflict" between the old and new products, says Narinder Singh, chief marketing officer for Silicon Valley startup Appirio, which helps companies implement cloud computing. Microsoft is also playing catch-up to cloud providers like Google and Amazon.com.

Google Wave Add-On Is The Start Of A Tsunami

BNET
And what exactly does that mean? It means that people will find themselves doing more of everything online, which is exactly what Google wants. Its business model isn’t, as it is for many of the cloud system integrators like Appirio or LTech, to sell applications.

Appirio adds to board, shuffles execs

San Francisco Business Times
Software business Appirio Inc. added to its board of directors and reorganized itself to better focus on cloud computing.

Watch out, LinkedIn: Facebook is gaining on you

CNNMoney.com
Appirio in San Mateo offers a similar invite feature as software-as-a-service, but only for customers of Salesforce.com (CRM). The firm, which is backed by Salesforce, Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital, offers applications that manage referrals in social networks, whether for hiring purposes or a marketing campaign. All the data is sent back to Salesforce for analysis and tracking.

The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Journal
Appirio - Offers services and products to accelerate the adoption of on-demand solutions, and recently secured $5.6 million of financing in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital.

Which Cloud Services Providers Are Gaining Mind Share?

innovation.sys-con.com
Appirio named #2 of top 20 Cloud Services Providers gaining mind share.

85 Cloud Computing Vendors Shaping the Emerging Cloud

Datamation
Appirio ranked at #14.

Appirio Leverages Force.com

Cloud Computing Journal
Appirio Tuesday launched a cloud-based professional service automation (PSA) solution on Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform.

Appirio Opens New Front In Services Software

BNET Technology Blog
Ryan Nichols, Appirio’s vice president of product management and marketing, told me the firm is targeting the top thousand professional services firms, which typically generate over $25m in revenue and have more than 100 consultants on staff. “It’s a pretty big industry to be neglected by the technology,” Nichols told me. In the short term, Appirio will focus on the six thousand professional services firms he said already use Salesforce.com. “It’s a natural bridge,” he said.

Appirio aims new SaaS app at large services businesses

Computerworld
To this end, Appirio has made it easy to extend and modify facets of its application's "four pillars" -- people, projects, customers and numbers -- to suit a particular industry or business, said Ryan Nichols, vice president of product management and marketing.

Google`s Incomplete Channel a Work in Progress

Channel Insider
Capitalizing on the cloud computing trend and the Google platform, Slakey says, requires new ways of thinking. He rattles off a list of partners and next-generation partners such as Appirio, Cloud Sherpas and Sada Systems that are embracing transformative business models to build and deliver cloud computing solutions.

Are 'private clouds' evil? Or just vendor hype?

InfoWorld
There has been a great deal of back in forth in the blogosphere around the use of private clouds, which generally means IT infrastructure that relies on the same techniques cloud providers use for their own datacenters, such as multitenancy, virtualization, Web delivery, and highly standardized environments. Most of the discussion emerged from a blog post by Appirio, "2009 prediction: Rise and fall of the private cloud."

CRM Magazine Announces Winners of 2009 CRM Market Awards

CRM Magazine
Appirio named one to watch for consultancies.

A Public Cloud by Any Other Name is Private

Ulitzer
..."In particular the one that started because of Appirio’s corporate blog post “Rise and Fall of the Private Cloud and the comments made by Hoff in response."

CEOs come to terms with cloud concerns

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal
At Appirio Inc., a San Mateo-based enterprise cloud computing integrator, cloud business director Mike Epner in July launched an online forum where customers can exchange concerns and experiences about going to the cloud.

A day in the clouds

Deal Architect
"I was invited to present at and participate in an invigorating day organized by Appirio last week with a number of cloud computing pioneers. Google, amazon, salesforce.com and Appirio shared their experiences with several CIOs from a variety of industries and locations."

Early users find savings in cloud storage

Computerworld
John Johnson, vice president of licensing at ASCAP, says the organization had hoped to use Salesforce.com Inc.'s hosted service to manage and store digitized documents, but it offered very little storage. However, through a service from Appirio Inc. in San Mateo, Calif., he can now use Salesforce.com to manage documents stored in S3.

Narinder Singh talks to SIIA about Appirio and the Cloud

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Salesforce.com Now Lets Companies Build Both Apps And Sites In The Cloud

TechCrunchIT
Salesforce.com’s platform to build and deploy enterprise applications, Force.com ,has rolled out a new capability, called Force.com Sites, that lets companies build and run their applications for internal use as well as public use on Salesforce.com cloud computing platform.

Recession 2.0—Social networking eases the pain

The Fast Forward Blog
“A hiring company that uses Appirio’s product asks its employees to add an application to their Facebook pages. The tool will notify the employees when new jobs open and which of their friends might be a good fit. Appirio’s matching engine comes up with a list of friends whose job titles, geographic location and other keywords match their company’s available positions, and the employee can send them a referral in Facebook.”

Public clouds, private clouds and hybrid clouds—reach for your umbrellas!

FSN
“Most of the companies talking about private clouds are making a lot of money out of selling you data centres,” asserts the VP of product management, who sees the private cloud as little more than “a data centre by another name”. -Ryan Nichols “A private cloud wont offer businesses the incremental improvements they gain when they stop operating their own data centre,” he states.

Finding New Employees, via Social Networks

New York Times
“Appirio’s matching engine comes up with a list of friends whose job titles, geographic location and other keywords match their company’s available positions, and the employee can send them a referral in Facebook,” said Ryan Nichols, Appirio’s vice president for product management. The matching engine has access to the same information that a Facebook friend does.

Businesses Cash in on Cloud Computing

Digital Media Buzz
There are three primary reasons why companies look at cloud computing, says Balakrishna Narasimhan, senior director of strategy and marketing at San Mateo, Calif.-based Appirio, which was named as one of the “100 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem” by Cloud Computing Journal. The first two, he says, are straight forward: reduction in TCO and reduced initial investment. But the third driver, he adds, although difficult to quantify is as important as the first three: the ability to innovate and to be agile. “What a cloud platform lets you do,” he explains, “is not worry about infrastructure and networks and really focus on building a good solution.”

SaaS vendors need to get a clue about APIs

Network World
"The general notion of having a robust API to data is a critical jumping in point" for SaaS vendors wanting to play in the enterprise, said Narinder Singh, founder of Appirio, a company that helps customers exploit on-demand applications. Singh said he doesn't see suites going entirely away but does foresee a more heterogeneous applications environment. "How customers get support and how stuff works together, it's unclear how that gets resolved," he said. Among the other concerns for those in the SaaS industry is standards creep. Singh said he's concerned that new compliance and standards efforts could be used by those who are behind in the SaaS game to slow things down enough that they can catch up. "Standards…too often slow innovation," he said.

Are There Too Many Choices in Mobile?

InternetNews.com
"My favorite mobile applications tend to be ones that leverage the device," said panelist Narinder Singh, a co-founder and chief marketing officer of on-demand software supplier Appirio. "Apple almost single-handedly brought personalization to the mobile device," he added. "I actually think we'll see a dramatic jump in devices with multiple technologies and less commoditization." -Narinder Singh

Have Mobile Devices Grown Too Numerous?

Datamation
"My favorite mobile applications tend to be ones that leverage the device," said panelist Narinder Singh, a co-founder and chief marketing officer of on-demand software supplier Appirio. "Apple almost single-handedly brought personalization to the mobile device," he added. "I actually think we'll see a dramatic jump in devices with multiple technologies and less commoditization." -Narinder Singh

Codie award winners announced

InfoWorld
Content Newcomer of the Year: Appirio

MD Speaks with Appirio

Media Dojo
Combining products, services and strategic relationships with platform companies like Google or Amazon, enablers like Appirio provide a “middlelayer” rather than “middleware” for organizations trying out the cloud for select business functions. Based in San Mateo, Appirio basically helps its clients fast-track selected business functions onto the cloud by offering them a turn-key proposition.

Startup sells shovels for cloud computing gold rush

Bizjournals
Times are good right now for Appirio, with interest on the rise for pay-as-you-go software rather than licensed on-premise software, as companies seek to cut costs.