On 20 October 2016, Appirio announced that they would be acquired by
Wipro, an Indian information technology services corporation based in
Bangalore, India, for $500 million.[4][5] On 31 March 2021, the Appirio brand was retired by Wipro and merged into its
Salesforce practice.[6]
History
In 2006, Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin (former
Borland SoftwareCIO), Narinder Singh, Glenn Weinstein, and Mike O’Brien.[7]
A Series C round came in February 2009 with a $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital and
GGV Capital.[12]
A Series D funding round for $60 million followed in March 2012, led by private equity firm
General Atlantic.[13]
In October 2009, Appirio's
Chief 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.[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, 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.
Appirio ranked among firms like Acumen Solutions (acquired by
Salesforce), Bluewolf (acquired by
IBM), and
Cloud Sherpas (acquired by
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.[23]
^Ouellette, Jason (2010). Development with the Force.com platform : building business applications in the cloud. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.
ISBN978-0-321-64773-3.