Salesforce.com Partner Appirio Joins the Google Enterprise Program

By David Sims

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Appirio, a Services 2.0 and on-demand integrator vendor, has announced it has joined the Google (News - Alert) Enterprise Professional program. The program “extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise deployments,” Appirio officials say.

The Salesforce.com (News - Alert) partner has launched a series of Google Gadgets for Salesforce.com that integrates iGoogle with Salesforce.com’s CRM application and platform. In addition, Appirio now offers integration and deployment services for Google Apps and custom application development products that use Google and Salesforce.com.

Appirio co-founder Narinder Singh has said the company’s approach to its own IT infrastructure “relies completely on SaaS (News - Alert) solutions; thus reducing out hardware, network, and software cost to a minimum.”



The company itself pays “nothing for our collaboration infrastructure, and reasonable costs for the services our transactional systems provide. Our costs ramp smoothly - we pay for additional capabilities as we use them. We never invest upfront, hoping for some future value. Benefits come in real time.”

Singh says “nothing will need to be swapped out as we grow except perhaps financials (would love to see Quickbooks use SaaS to finally move up market). We do not deploy a single server, our IT costs are tiny, and we spend relatively more on cutting edge solutions that directly improve our business.”

As industry observer Phil Wainewright says, “I'm always impressed when a company runs its own business on the same technology it makes a living from selling to others.”

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