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Appirio expands application footprint with FinancialForce PSA

With some time and distance from the acquisition of Appirio, I decided to write a series of some of the less obvious lessons from our journey that could be applied to other startups - particularly those in the B2B space.  Below is the beginning of the excerpt from the posts which are on medium.

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In November of 2016, when Appirio announced its acquisition by Wipro, I had the normal range of rollercoaster of emotions you’d expect from a founder. I know all of the founders feel proud of what we accomplished and a large part of that is because of how we got there. We started as a scrappy underdog: we hustled, we irritated industry leaders, we hid behind and even slyly managed our friends at giants like Salesforce. After we grew by riding the tidal wave of cloud fever, we had to confront our own dose of harsh reality — the same tricks didn’t work, growth made us less scrappy, and we still didn’t have the market power of the industry leaders.

Never shy to voice an opinion, now that i’m completely unshackled I am using that freedom to reflect on some never told stories of Appirio, and broader lessons I learned from them. I still won’t go full on tabloid. I decided to save stories like “which cloud provider has a terrible technical platform and knows it”, “who has the most unethical sales team”, and “which industry founder was the biggest @$$#!^# defender of private SaaS until he got fired” for nights off the internet…

Nevertheless, there are many stories from the history of Appirio that have never been shared broadly. In them are lessons that could apply to many startups. In this post, I’ve shared ten of the most memorable lessons of Appirio. Hopefully they move beyond many of the normal platitudes you here about success after the fact. They are most relevant to those trying to navigate a trend much bigger than you are (in our case the cloud). In subsequent pieces, I’ll drill into each of the lessons and share some of the more provocative stories of Appirio and the cloud industry we grew up in.

Below are ten of the top, hopefully non-obvious, lessons we learned at Appirio. Follow on posts will stand alone and be linked from here and contain the stories beyond the story.

What CEOs Don’t Yet Know About The Cloud, But Should

Back in 2011, the Harvard Business Review published a piece on the benefits of the cloud. Cloud computing, they predicted, would take over businesses and the world. And it would quickly become the platform of choice for many businesses. They pointed to some substantial benefits that couldn’t be ignored. Pixabay For starters, cloud computing would make it easier for people to collaborate.…

Wipro Limited vient de signer l’accord final d’acquisition d’Appirio, société mondiale de services cloud spécialisée dans la création d’expériences client et employé de nouvelle génération, pour un montant de 500 millions de dollars.

Fondée en 2006, Appirio est basée à Indianapolis, avec des bureaux à San Francisco, Dublin, Londres, Jaipur et Tokyo, et compte 1 250 employés dans le monde. Certaines des plus grandes marques mondiales lui font confiance, notamment Stryker, Robert Half, Johnson Controls, Cardinal Health, Coca-Cola, eBay, Facebook, Home Depot et Sony PlayStation.

Une fois l’acquisition finalisée, Appirio et Wipro formeront l’un des plus grands spécialistes de la transformation cloud dans le monde, ce qui devrait changer la donne dans l’économie « as-a-service » et numérique d’aujourd’hui, souligne Wipro. Grâce à Appirio, Wipro profitera aussi de Topcoder, sa plateforme de crowdsourcing connectant plus d’un million de concepteurs, de développeurs et de data scientists dans le monde avec leurs clients.

« Appirio et Wipro se réunissent pour générer des synergies de transformation dans le domaine des applications et aider les entreprises à créer de nouveaux business models », a déclaré Abidali Z. Neemuchwala, Directeur Général & Membre du Conseil d’administration de Wipro Limited. Wipro devrait consolider ses pratiques actuelles de Salesforce et Workday en matière d’applications cloud sous la marque et la structure d’Appirio. Chris Barbin, Directeur Général d’Appirio, dirigera l’activité ainsi étendue.

« Lorsque vous associez l’envergure mondiale et la forte orientation numérique de Wipro à l’expertise d’Appirio dans la transformation d’expérience employé et client, ainsi que son équipe de haut niveau, sa marque et ses partenaires, vous disposez d’une force extraordinaire dans le secteur », a confié Chris Barbin, PDG d’Appirio. « Notre objectif commun est de dominer le marché et d’arriver en tête du secteur au Net Promoter Score (NPS), en termes de part de marché et au classement du meilleur employeur. »

Cette acquisition est soumise aux conditions de clôture et aux validations réglementaires habituelles ; elle devrait être finalisée au cours du trimestre s’achevant le 31 décembre 2016.

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