Appirio
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Appirio Inc. is an information technology consulting
Information technology consulting
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 company headquartered in San Mateo, California
San Mateo, California
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 (USA) that offers technology
Technology
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 and professional services
Professional services
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 to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications. This includes Software-as-a-Service
Saas
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 and Platform-as-a-Service
Paas
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 technologies like Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

, Google Apps
Google Apps
Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and...

, Workday and Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...

.

History

Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former Borland Software CIO
Chief information officer
Chief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...

), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien in 2006. In 2007, Appirio moved its headquarters into Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

’s Startup Incubator in San Mateo.

In early 2008, Appirio secured a Series A investment of $1.1 million from Salesforce.com and angel investors
Angel investor
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. The firm next secured $5.6 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

 in July 2008. A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital
and GGV Capital
GGV Capital
GGV Capital is a venture capital firm focused on expansion stage investments in the US and Asia. The firm invests across a range of sectors in information technology, services and healthcare, as well as the consumer growth sector in China.GGV Capital, which was founded as Granite Global Ventures...

.

In October, 2009, Appirio's Chief Architect
Software architect
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, Jason Ouellette released a book titled Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, released under Addison-Wesley Professional. 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”. In July, 2010, Appirio was featured in The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, a technology novel written by Vinnie Mirchandani.

Appirio is currently headquartered in San Mateo, California with a satellite office in Minato, Tokyo
Minato, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 1 March 2008, it had an official population of 217,335 and a population density of 10,865 persons per km². The total area is 20.34 km².Minato hosts 49 embassies...

, Japan. Appirio runs as a serverless
Server (computing)
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 company, utilizing only public cloud solutions and no in-house datacenter.

Competition

Appirio ranks among firms like Acumen Solutions, Bluewolf, and Model Metrics in the market for cloud computing solutions.

External links

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