Appirio


Appirio, a Wipro company, was an information technology consulting company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana that offered technology and professional services to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications. This included Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Salesforce.com, and Google Apps. Appirio ran as a serverless company, utilizing only public cloud solutions and no in-house datacenter.
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. On 31 March 2021, the Appirio brand was retired by Wipro and merged into its Salesforce practice.

History

  • In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin, Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.
  • In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in Salesforce.com's Startup Incubator in San Mateo, California.
  • In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to San Francisco, California.
  • In August 2015, Appirio announced that the Indianapolis Office would be named company headquarters.
  • 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.
  • A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital.
  • A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm General Atlantic.
  • In October 2009, Appirio's Chief Architect, 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.
  • In March 2011, Appirio acquired Infowelders, a Salesforce consultancy based in Louisville, KY.
  • In December 2011, Appirio acquired Saaspoint, a provider of cloud consulting services in Europe.
  • In November 2012, it went on to acquire Knowledge Infusion, a human resources and talent management advisory and consulting services firm.
  • 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, Bluewolf, and Cloud Sherpas 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.