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.

Appirio's Narinder Singh Discusses SaaS on Trend POV

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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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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."

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.