Appirio, a Wipro company, was an

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company headquartered in

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(United States) that offered

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and

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to companies wishing to adopt public cloud

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. This included Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Salesforce.com, and

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. 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

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, for $500 million. On 31 March 2021, the Appirio brand was retired by Wipro and merged into its

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practice.

History

* In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former Borland Software CIO), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien. * In 2007, Appirio established its headquarters in Salesforce.com's Startup Incubator in

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. * In 2012, Appirio moved its headquarters to

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. * 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

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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

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. * 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 *

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, Japan * London, UK * Dublin, Ireland * Sydney, Australia * Espoo, Finland * Stockholm, Sweden * Porto, Portugal * Pune, Bangalore, India * Greater Noida, India * Hyderabad, India *

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, India

Competition

Appirio ranked among firms like Acumen Solutions (acquired by

), Bluewolf (acquired by

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), and Cloud Sherpas (acquired by

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) in the market for cloud computing solutions. Increasingly Appirio was found to be a primary competitor of global system integrators such as Accenture and

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References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.appirio.com/ Cloud computing providers Information technology companies of the United States International information technology consulting firms Information technology consulting firms of the United States Wipro Defunct companies based in Indianapolis