Appirio Explained

Appirio
Type:	Cloud computing
Fate:	Acquired by Wipro (2016)
Key People:	Chris Barbin Narinder Singh Glenn Weinstein Mike O'Brien
Industry:	Software
Parent:	Wipro
Foundation:	San Mateo, California (2006)
Location City:	Indianapolis, Indiana
Location Country:	United States
Locations:	Indianapolis, Indiana London, United Kingdom Dublin, Ireland Jaipur, India Tokyo, Japan Espoo, Finland Stockholm, Sweden Sydney, Australia Porto, Portugal

Appirio, a Wipro company, was an information technology consulting company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana (United States) that offered technology and professional services to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications.^[1] This included Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Salesforce.com, and Google Apps.^[2] Appirio ran as a serverless company, utilizing only public cloud solutions and no in-house datacenter.^[3]

On 20 October 2016, Appirio announced that they would be acquired by Wipro, an Indian information technology services corporation based in Bangalore, India, for $500 million.^{[4] [5]} On 31 March 2021, the Appirio brand was retired by Wipro and merged into its Salesforce practice.^[6]

History

• In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former Borland Software CIO), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.^[7]
• In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in Salesforce.com's Startup Incubator in San Mateo, California.^[8]
• In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to San Francisco, California.^[9]
• In August 2015, Appirio announced that the Indianapolis Office would be named company headquarters.^[10]
• In early 2008, Appirio secured a Series A investment of $1.1 million from Salesforce.com and angel investors. Then, the firm secured $5.6 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital in July 2008.^[11]
• A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.^[12]
• A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm General Atlantic.^[13]
• In October 2009, Appirio's Chief Architect, Jason Ouellette^[14] released a book titled Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, released under Addison-Wesley Professional.^[15]
• In April 2010, Appirio was named "OnDemand Company of the Year" by AlwaysOn, selected as a "Best Place to Work in the Bay Area" by the San Francisco Business Times, and listed in Gartner's "Who's Who in Cloud Computing/SaaS Integration".^{[16] [17] [18]}
• In July, 2010, Appirio was featured in The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, a technology novel written by Vinnie Mirchandani.^[19]
• In March 2011, Appirio acquired Infowelders, a Salesforce consultancy based in Louisville, KY.^[20]
• In December 2011, Appirio acquired Saaspoint, a provider of cloud consulting services in Europe.^[21]
• In November 2012, it went on to acquire Knowledge Infusion, a human resources and talent management advisory and consulting services firm.^[22]
• In September 2013, Appirio acquired Topcoder, a community of 500,000 developers, engineers and designers that find and collaborate on software development assignments ranging from applications and websites, to back-end corporate systems. CloudSpokes, Appirio's competing platform with 75,000 users, was merged into Topcoder in January 2014.

Locations

• Indianapolis, IN
• Minato, Tokyo, Japan
• London, UK
• Dublin, Ireland
• Sydney, Australia
• Espoo, Finland
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Porto, Portugal
• Pune, Bangalore, India
• Greater Noida, India
• Hyderabad, India
• Jaipur, India

Competition

Appirio ranked among firms like Acumen Solutions (acquired by Salesforce), Bluewolf (acquired by IBM), and Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture) in the market for cloud computing solutions. Increasingly Appirio was found to be a primary competitor of global system integrators such as Accenture and Deloitte.

Notes and References

1. Web site: What Makes Appirio Special. 10 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100331091114/http://www.appirio.com/company/philosophy.php. 31 March 2010 . live.
2. News: Appirio opts for the cloud over servers. 5 September 2008. InfoWorld.
3. News: Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration . ZDNet . https://web.archive.org/web/20100527085645/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/appirios-eat-your-own-dogfood-saas-integration/325 . dead . 27 May 2010 . 12 May 2007.
4. News: Wipro to acquire Appirio, A Global Cloud Services Company . dead . 20 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161021002012/https://appirio.com/pressroom/wipro-to-acquire-appirio-a-global-cloud-services-company . 21 October 2016.
5. News: This man just sold his 10-year-old company to Wipro for $500 million . Business Insider . 2016-12-26.
6. News: Dis-Appirio . 11 November 2021.
7. News: America's Most Promising Startups. 9 March 2010. BusinessWeek. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404023433/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepreneurs/16.htm. 4 April 2010 . dead.
8. News: Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups. https://web.archive.org/web/20070427070807/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_574670.htm. dead. 27 April 2007. BusinessWeek.
9. Web site: Contact Appirio . 21 August 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120825065404/http://www.appirio.com/company/contact.php . 25 August 2012 .
10. Web site: Appirio Chooses Indianapolis as Official Corporate Headquarters . 18 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160326160310/http://appirio.com/category/business-blog/2015/08/appirio-chooses-indianapolis-as-official-corporate-headquarters/ . 26 March 2016 . dead .
11. News: Salesforce.com app maker Appirio gets $5.6M from Sequoia. 18 July 2008. VentureBeat.
12. Web site: Appirio Secures $10M in Series C funding. 25 February 2009.
13. News: Cloud Startup Appirio Raises $60 Million. 17 March 2012. Information Week.
14. Web site: Appirio Leadership: Jason Ouellette. live. 1 May 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20090925100004/http://www.appirio.com:80/company/leadership.php . 25 September 2009 .
15. Book: Ouellette, Jason. Development with the Force.com platform : building business applications in the cloud. 2010. Addison-Wesley. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 978-0-321-64773-3.
16. Web site: 2010 AlwaysOn OnDemand 100. 22 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100703002631/http://alwayson.goingon.com/2010/OnDemand-Top-100-Competiton. 3 July 2010 . live.
17. News: Appirio Recognized for Innovation and Leadership in Cloud Computing. 17 June 2010. Yahoo Finance.
18. Web site: Solutions for Cloud Services Integration / SaaS Integration Proliferate. 19 April 2010 . 19 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100423050302/http://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/2010/04/19/solutions-for-cloud-services-integration-saas-integration-proliferate/. 23 April 2010 . live.
19. Book: Mirchandani, Vinnie. The New Polymath. 2010. John Wiley & Sons. USA. 978-0-470-61830-1. 217, 218, 227, 241–243, 252.
20. Web site: Appirio Acquires Infowelders, a Salesforce.com Consultancy - Appirio . 18 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160326231705/http://appirio.com/category/in-the-news/press-releases/2011/03/appirio-acquires-infowelders-a-salesforce-com-consultancy/ . 26 March 2016 . dead .
21. News: San Mateo's Appirio to buy Saaspoint. 17 March 2012. Silicon Valley Business Journal.
22. News: Appirio beefs up, acquires Knowledge Infusion. https://web.archive.org/web/20121012002910/http://www.zdnet.com/appirio-beefs-up-acquires-knowledge-infusion-7000005394/. dead. 12 October 2012. 21 November 2012. ZDNet.