Appirio Adds Jeff Epstein to Board of Directors

Former CFO of Oracle and Technology Industry Veteran to Chair Appirio’s Audit Committee, Guide the Cloud Service Provider to its Next Phase of Growth 

San Francisco - May 9, 2013 - Appirio, a global cloud services provider, today announced the appointment of Jeff Epstein to its Board of Directors. Jeff will chair Appirio’s Audit Committee and is the company’s second independent board director. Jeff brings more than 25 years of financial expertise to Appirio, and is currently an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves on multiple boards, including priceline.com, Kaiser Permanente and Shutterstock.

“Jeff’s financial leadership, industry insight and deep expertise in technology and M&A will be a tremendous asset to Appirio as we look to our next phase of growth,” said Chris Barbin, CEO, Appirio. “As we continue to deliver on our long standing mission - to help companies reimagine their business with disruptive technologies - Jeff will play a critical role in ensuring that we ourselves are a high performing company.”

Jeff has experience working with both high growth and publicly-held companies, and most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Oracle. Earlier, Jeff Epstein was executive vice president and chief financial officer of DoubleClick, as it grew from 180 to more than 2,000 employees.

“Companies like Appirio, that are on leading edge of trends such as the cloud and crowdsourcing, are disrupting the traditional systems integration market,” said Jeff Epstein. “It’s an exciting time to be part of a company like Appirio that doesn’t accept the status quo. The company’s rapid growth, customer portfolio and leadership in the market is a testament to its leadership team and innovative model.”

Jeff holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

About Appirio
Appirio is a global services provider who uses crowdsourcing and cloud, social and mobile technology to help enterprises reimagine their business and become more agile. Appirio brings together technology expertise with a deep understanding of the way people work, and the nearly limitless skills of a crowdsourcing community of 70,000+ developers, to help enterprises transform relationships with their customers, partners and workforce. Appirio has worked with more than 500 enterprises, including organizations like Facebook, Intuit, Japan Post Network, L'Oreal, McGraw-Hill, NetApp, The Four Seasons, and Virgin America.  The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

Appirio Introduces Cloud Metrics for Salesforce.com Customers

New Metrics Offering Combines Automated Discovery Tools, Benchmarks and Expert Analysis To Improve the Architecture of Salesforce.com Deployments

Offers Free Automated Report for Salesforce Customers

San Francisco, Calif. - September 18, 2012 - Appirio, a cloud solution provider, today announced a new Cloud Metrics offering to help CIOs and CRM directors measure and benchmark the performance, configuration and complexity of their Salesforce environments.  Designed to complement Salesforce’s personalized account review reports, this new offering helps companies better understand a wider variety of system metrics - from code and test coverage, to security and visibility models, to overall user adoption - and compare those to other Salesforce environments.

The announcement was made today at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2012 in San Francisco, the world’s largest cloud computing and enterprise technology event. To introduce customers to the service, Appirio is offering a free Cloud Metrics report to qualified customers attending Dreamforce 2012.  To sign up, visit Appirio booth #701 or our website.

Appirio’s Cloud Metrics for Salesforce.com gives those overseeing and directly managing Salesforce applications an objective measure of their technical health. By having insight into issues around security, configuration complexity, custom code sprawl and inadequate test coverage, IT managers can quickly and easily identify any technical issues and maximize the business’ return on investment.

Cloud Metrics provides IT executives and administrators alike with concrete data they need to assist in making trade-off decisions on feature requests, or to help determine where to fund necessary platform investments to ensure the environment is cost-effective and agile enough to keep pace with the speed of business change.

Appirio’s Cloud Metrics offering pulls data from across more than a thousand Salesforce-related projects, captured in the Appirio Cloud Enablement Suite by the company’s 500 cloud experts. Appirio’s Cloud Enablement Suite is an integrated suite of applications, assets, analytics and intelligence that helps Appirio’s cloud experts and our customers implement, manage and measure enterprise cloud initiatives.

Comments on the News:
“We use the Appirio Cloud Metrics tool internally, and get amazing, real-time insight into the health and complexity of all of our Salesforce orgs, including our development and QA sandboxes.  It’s become an invaluable tool for IT to manage our increasingly complex, 100% cloud-based software architecture.  It’d be hard to imagine giving it up now - it’d be like flying blind in a plane with no instruments.”
- Glenn Weinstein, CIO, Appirio

“Salesforce.com has led the charge in helping companies measure the health of their CRM processes for years. It’s great to see an experienced partner like Appirio provide services that can measure the health of a given deployment.”
- Ross Piper, senior vice president, Enterprise Strategy & Alliances, salesforce.com

"Appirio’s cloud metrics data, combined with their expert consultation, gave us the actionable insight we needed to see what we were managing effectively and where we could improve. We don’t have access to as many orgs as Appirio does, so their data-based analysis was very helpful to validate some assumptions, to correct others, and to better engage with our business stakeholders.”
- Dianne Conley, VP of Marketing Systems, K12

Dreamforce 2012 is the industry’s largest cloud computing and enterprise technology event, welcoming more than 70,000 registered attendees to experience the power of the social revolution. With more than 750 sessions and 350 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can participate in interactive sessions, hands-on training with cutting-edge technology, thousands of live demos and unparalleled networking. In addition, Dreamforce welcomes special guests Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group; Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Eletric; Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State; Tony Robbins, Entrepreneur, Author & Peak Performance Strategist; and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Dreamforce 2012 offers attendees everything they need to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways, under one roof.

Useful Links:
Read: Datasheet on Appirio’s Cloud Metrics for Salesforce.com
Visit: Appirio’s website for more information about Cloud Metrics
Watch: ChalkTalk about Appirio Cloud Metrics
View: Video on Appirio’s Cloud Enablement Suite

About Appirio
Appirio accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve significant results from cloud applications and platforms like salesforce.com, Google and Workday. Appirio has worked with more than 300 enterprise customers including organizations like City of Los Angeles, Facebook, Flextronics, International Hotels Group, Japan Post Network, Ltd., L'Oreal, NetApp, NYU, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters and VMware. Appirio's technology-enabled professional services are supported by a team of nearly 500 cloud experts and CloudSpokes, a more than 50,000 person-strong global cloud developer community. The company's expertise and innovative brokerage technology have been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, and IDC. Appirio has offices that span the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

Appirio Expands Into Midwest with New Office and Cloud Development Center

Appirio Opens Fifth Office, Plans to Grow Indianapolis Location to Nearly 300 Cloud Experts Within Three Years

San Francisco, Calif - Aug. 22, 2012 - Appirio, a global technology-enabled cloud service provider, announced today it is expanding again with a new office in Indianapolis focused in part on growing and developing Appirio’s industry leading team of cloud architects. This is the second U.S. office for the San Francisco-based company, which has offices spanning the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific.

Appirio, started in 2006 with the goal of helping medium to large enterprises power their business with cloud-based solutions, has grown to more than 500 cloud experts in five countries. The company has moved more than 2 million users from more than 350 enterprises to cloud platforms like Salesforce, Workday, Google Apps and Amazon Web Services.

Appirio is backed by General Atlantic, GGV Capital and Sequoia Capital, and recently raised $60 million in capital to support global expansion of its consulting practices as well as to accelerate development of its enabling cloud technology and crowdsourcing development platform - CloudSpokes. Appirio’s expansion into Indianapolis and the company’s new Cloud Development Center will give Appirio and its growing base of customers and partners access to highly skilled cloud experts at a time when demand is skyrocketing.

According to Gartner, public cloud services are expected to grow at nearly 18 percent through 2016(1), compared to less than 4 percent growth for overall IT spending(2). This shift to the cloud presents a great market opportunity for companies like Appirio, and a leading edge career opportunity for Appirio’s cloud experts across the world.

“Enterprise cloud adoption is still in its early days, but today customer demand for cloud expertise is exceeding supply,” said Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio. “Opening an office and Cloud Development Center in Indianapolis gives us access to a large, highly educated talent base with close proximity to customers and partners, and provides a great career opportunity for those looking to join a company that’s changing an industry.”

Appirio already has a team of 20 employees on the ground in Indianapolis, with plans to grow that office to nearly 300 people within the next three years. The company is actively recruiting for a number of positions. Please refer to careers.appirio.com for current job listings.

Other Resources

• Apply: Open positions at Appirio
• Watch: Appirio overview
• Read: Indiana Economic Development Corporation announcement

About Appirio
Appirio accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms like salesforce.com, Google and Workday. Appirio has worked with more than 300 enterprise customers including organizations like City of Los Angeles, Facebook, Flextronics, Home Depot, International Hotels Group, Japan Post Network, Ltd., L'Oreal, NetApp, NYU, Starbucks, Thomson Reuters and VMware. Appirio's technology-enabled professional services are supported by a team of nearly 500 cloud experts and CloudSpokes, a more than 40,000 person-strong global cloud developer community. The company's expertise and innovative brokerage technology have been recognized by organizations such as the World Economic Forum, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, InformationWeek, and IDC. Appirio has offices that span the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and General Atlantic.

(1) Gartner, Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2010-2016, 2Q12 Update, June 2012
(2) Gartner, Forecast Overview: IT Spending, Worldwide, 2009-2016, 1Q12 Update, May 2012

Appirio Raises $60 Million In Series D Funding Led By General Atlantic

New Funding Will Fuel Appirio’s International Expansion, Investments in Technology and Crowdsourcing Platform For Cloud Development

San Mateo, Calif. - March 15, 2012 - Appirio, a technology-enabled services provider that helps enterprises power their business with the cloud, today announced that it has closed $60 million in Series D funding led by global growth investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. Appirio plans to use the funds for investment and M&A to support global expansion of its consulting practice areas, as well as to build out the company’s enabling cloud technology and acceleration of its successful crowdsourcing development platform - CloudSpokes.

The financing follows a banner year of growth for Appirio. In 2011 alone, Appirio increased year-over-year revenue by over 80 percent, expanded into Europe with the acquisition of Saaspoint and developed the Cloud Enablement Suite (CES) - an integrated set of applications, assets and development capacity that supports enterprise cloud development. Additionally, the company introduced CloudSpokes - a crowdsourcing community for cloud development that has already attracted 35,000+ developers.

Mark O’Connor to Join Appirio as Chief Financial Officer

Executive Drawn by Company’s Market Leadership and Growth in Cloud Brokerage Market

San Mateo, Calif. - March 15, 2011- Appirio, a technology-enabled services provider that helps enterprises power their business with the cloud, today announced the appointment of Mark O’Connor as Chief Financial Officer. The announcement comes on the heels of Appirio closing a $60 million funding round led by global growth investor General Atlantic, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital. O’Connor, who brings more than 20 years of finance experience in various high growth companies, will join Appirio on March 19. His appointment will support Appirio’s projected growth and global expansion of company initiatives.

O’Connor joins Appirio from Nuance Communications where he served in the office of the CEO as chief of staff and vice president of operations and previously the vice president of finance and operations of its enterprise division. He also served as CFO for BeVocal and Appshop. O’Connor brings tremendous finance and operations experience from International Networking Services, where he was part of the hybrid products and services business when it grew from a few employees to more than 2,000 in nearly three years.

Appirio Charts Strong Business Growth in 2011

Signs On Nearly 100 New Customers Across Geographies and Industries

SAN MATEO, Calif. - January 26, 2012 - Appirio, a services provider that helps enterprises power their business with public cloud solutions, today announced it closed 2011 with a strong showing in new customer wins, geographic expansion and overall business growth in the rapidly evolving cloud computing space.

Corporate Milestones

• Increased revenue by 80 percent year over year.
• Grew the team to more than 400 cloud experts across the U.S., Japan, India and U.K.
• Acquired four companies, bringing Appirio additional expertise in social, mobile and user adoption, and adding to the company’s core salesforce.com and Google business in the U.S. Midwest and Europe.
• Continued to grow our presence internationally, appointing new GMs for Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Moved more than 1.5 million users to public cloud applications like salesforce.com, Google and Workday.