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]
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| Company type | Cloud computing |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | San Mateo, California (2006) |
| Defunct | March 2021 |
| Fate | Acquired by Wipro (2016) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations | Indianapolis, Indiana London, United Kingdom Dublin, Ireland Jaipur, India Tokyo, Japan Espoo, Finland Stockholm, Sweden Sydney, Australia Porto, Portugal |
Key people | Chris Barbin Narinder Singh Glenn Weinstein Mike O'Brien |
| Parent | Wipro |
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
edit- 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
edit- 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
editAppirio 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.[23]
References
edit- ^ "What Makes Appirio Special". Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ "Appirio opts for the cloud over servers". InfoWorld. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
- ^ "Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2007.
- ^ "Wipro to acquire Appirio, A Global Cloud Services Company". Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ^ "This man just sold his 10-year-old company to Wipro for $500 million". Business Insider. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ^ "Dis-Appirio". Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "America's Most Promising Startups". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ^ "Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007.
- ^ "Contact Appirio". Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- ^ "Appirio Chooses Indianapolis as Official Corporate Headquarters". Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "Salesforce.com app maker Appirio gets $5.6M from Sequoia". VentureBeat. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
- ^ "Appirio Secures $10M in Series C funding". Retrieved 25 February 2009.
- ^ "Cloud Startup Appirio Raises $60 Million". Information Week. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "Appirio Leadership: Jason Ouellette". Archived from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2007.
- ^ Ouellette, Jason (2010). Development with the Force.com platform : building business applications in the cloud. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-64773-3.
- ^ "2010 AlwaysOn OnDemand 100". Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
- ^ "Appirio Recognized for Innovation and Leadership in Cloud Computing". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
- ^ "Solutions for Cloud Services Integration / SaaS Integration Proliferate". 19 April 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
- ^ Mirchandani, Vinnie (2010). The New Polymath. USA: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 217, 218, 227, 241–243, 252. ISBN 978-0-470-61830-1.
- ^ "Appirio Acquires Infowelders, a Salesforce.com Consultancy - Appirio". Archived from the original on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "San Mateo's Appirio to buy Saaspoint". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ "Appirio beefs up, acquires Knowledge Infusion". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ How to Profit with Cloud Services, CRN Magazine, March 2011, archived from the original on 7 September 2011