# Appirio

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American IT consultancy

Appirio Type Cloud computing Industry Software Defunct March 2021 (2021-03) Fate Acquired by Wipro (2016) Headquarters United States Key people Chris Barbin Narinder Singh Glenn Weinstein Mike O'Brien Parent Wipro

**Appirio, a [Wipro](/source/Wipro) company,** was an [information technology consulting](/source/Information_technology_consulting) company headquartered in [Indianapolis, Indiana](/source/Indianapolis%2C_Indiana) (United States) that offered [technology](/source/Technology) and [professional services](/source/Professional_services) to companies wishing to adopt [public cloud](/source/Cloud_computing#Public) [applications](/source/Application_software).[1] This included [Software-as-a-Service](/source/SaaS) and [Platform-as-a-Service](/source/Platform_as_a_service) technologies like [Salesforce.com](/source/Salesforce.com), and [Google Apps](/source/Google_apps).[2] Appirio ran as a [serverless](/source/Server_(computing)) company, utilizing only public cloud solutions and no in-house [datacenter](/source/Datacenter).[3]

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

## History

- In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former [Borland Software](/source/Borland_Software) [CIO](/source/Chief_information_officer)), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.[7]

- In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in [Salesforce.com](/source/Salesforce.com)'s Startup Incubator in [San Mateo, California](/source/San_Mateo%2C_California).[8]

- In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to [San Francisco, California](/source/San_Francisco%2C_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](/source/Series_A) investment of $1.1 million from [Salesforce.com](/source/Salesforce.com) and [angel investors](/source/Angel_Investor). Then, the firm secured $5.6 million in Series B funding from [Sequoia Capital](/source/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](/source/GGV_Capital).[12]

- A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm [General Atlantic](/source/General_Atlantic).[13]

- In October 2009, Appirio's [Chief Architect](/source/Software_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](/source/Addison%E2%80%93Wesley).[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](/source/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](/source/Topcoder) in January 2014.

## Locations

- Indianapolis, IN

- [Minato, Tokyo](/source/Minato%2C_Tokyo), Japan

- London, UK

- Dublin, Ireland

- Sydney, Australia

- Espoo, Finland

- Stockholm, Sweden

- Porto, Portugal

- Pune, Bangalore, India

- Greater Noida, India

- Hyderabad, India

- [Jaipur](/source/Jaipur), India

## Competition

Appirio ranked among firms like Acumen Solutions (acquired by [Salesforce](/source/Salesforce)), Bluewolf (acquired by [IBM](/source/IBM)), and [Cloud Sherpas](/source/Cloud_Sherpas) (acquired by [Accenture](/source/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](/source/Deloitte).[23]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["What Makes Appirio Special"](http://appirio.com/company/philosophy.php). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100331091114/http://www.appirio.com/company/philosophy.php) from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Appirio opts for the cloud over servers"](http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/appirio-opts-cloud-over-servers-633). *InfoWorld*. Retrieved 5 September 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Appirio's eat-your-own-dogfood SaaS integration"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100527085645/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/appirios-eat-your-own-dogfood-saas-integration/325). *ZDNet*. Archived from [the original](https://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/appirios-eat-your-own-dogfood-saas-integration/325) on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Wipro to acquire Appirio, A Global Cloud Services Company"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161021002012/https://appirio.com/pressroom/wipro-to-acquire-appirio-a-global-cloud-services-company). Archived from [the original](https://appirio.com/pressroom/wipro-to-acquire-appirio-a-global-cloud-services-company) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["This man just sold his 10-year-old company to Wipro for $500 million"](http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-barbin-appirio-wipro-acquisition-2016-10). *Business Insider*. Retrieved 26 December 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Dis-Appirio"](https://efriedland.medium.com/dis-appirio-c3fff9176c58). Retrieved 11 November 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_7-0)** ["America's Most Promising Startups"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100404023433/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepreneurs/16.htm). *BusinessWeek*. Archived from [the original](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepreneurs/16.htm) on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070427070807/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_574670.htm). *BusinessWeek*. Archived from [the original](http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_574670.htm) on 27 April 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Contact Appirio"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120825065404/http://www.appirio.com/company/contact.php). Archived from [the original](http://www.appirio.com/company/contact.php) on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Appirio Chooses Indianapolis as Official Corporate Headquarters"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160326160310/http://appirio.com/category/business-blog/2015/08/appirio-chooses-indianapolis-as-official-corporate-headquarters/). Archived from [the original](http://appirio.com/category/business-blog/2015/08/appirio-chooses-indianapolis-as-official-corporate-headquarters/) on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Salesforce.com app maker Appirio gets $5.6M from Sequoia"](https://venturebeat.com/2008/07/18/salesforcecom-app-maker-appirio-gets-56m-from-sequoia/). *VentureBeat*. Retrieved 18 July 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-autogenerated3_12-0)** ["Appirio Secures $10M in Series C funding"](http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/news/appirio-secures-10-million-in-series-c-funding). Retrieved 25 February 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** ["Cloud Startup Appirio Raises $60 Million"](http://www.informationweek.com/news/development/web/232602642). *Information Week*. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["Appirio Leadership: Jason Ouellette"](http://appirio.com/company/leadership.php#jason). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090925100004/http://www.appirio.com:80/company/leadership.php) from the original on 25 September 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** Ouellette, Jason (2010). *Development with the Force.com platform : building business applications in the cloud*. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-321-64773-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-321-64773-3).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** ["2010 AlwaysOn OnDemand 100"](http://alwayson.goingon.com/2010/OnDemand-Top-100-Competiton). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100703002631/http://alwayson.goingon.com/2010/OnDemand-Top-100-Competiton) from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-autogenerated2_17-0)** ["Appirio Recognized for Innovation and Leadership in Cloud Computing"](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/Appirio-Recognized-for-iw-4214471384.html). *Yahoo Finance*. Retrieved 17 June 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** ["Solutions for Cloud Services Integration / SaaS Integration Proliferate"](http://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/2010/04/19/solutions-for-cloud-services-integration-saas-integration-proliferate/). 19 April 2010. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100423050302/http://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/2010/04/19/solutions-for-cloud-services-integration-saas-integration-proliferate/) from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** Mirchandani, Vinnie (2010). [*The New Polymath*](http://www.thenewpolymath.com/). USA: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 217, 218, 227, 241–243, 252. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-470-61830-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-470-61830-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** ["Appirio Acquires Infowelders, a Salesforce.com Consultancy - Appirio"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160326231705/http://appirio.com/category/in-the-news/press-releases/2011/03/appirio-acquires-infowelders-a-salesforce-com-consultancy/). Archived from [the original](http://appirio.com/category/in-the-news/press-releases/2011/03/appirio-acquires-infowelders-a-salesforce-com-consultancy/) on 26 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** ["San Mateo's Appirio to buy Saaspoint"](http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/12/09/san-mateos-appirio-to-buy-saaspoint.html). *Silicon Valley Business Journal*. Retrieved 17 March 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-22)** ["Appirio beefs up, acquires Knowledge Infusion"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121012002910/http://www.zdnet.com/appirio-beefs-up-acquires-knowledge-infusion-7000005394/). *ZDNet*. Archived from [the original](https://www.zdnet.com/appirio-beefs-up-acquires-knowledge-infusion-7000005394/) on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CRN_23-0)** [*How to Profit with Cloud Services*](https://web.archive.org/web/20110907080325/http://www.crn.com/march/march-events.htm), [CRN Magazine](/source/CRN_Magazine), March 2011, archived from [the original](http://www.crn.com/march/march-events.htm) on 7 September 2011

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.appirio.com/)

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