Appirio Acquires Infowelders

Appirio, a cloud solution provider that offers technology and professional services to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of public cloud applications and platforms, has acquired Infowelders, a full-service salesforce.com implementation consultancy specializing in sales cloud, service cloud and custom cloud development.

The acquisition expands Appirio's presence in the Midwest, brings additional customers, capacity and IP to Appirio's cloud asset library.

The Infowelders acquisition comes on the heels of last month's TRE3 Group acquisition which brought Appirio deep expertise and an active community that can help customers create high performance sales operations, sell more collaboratively and implement successful social CRM strategies.

"Demand for Salesforce and Force.com services has dramatically increased in the last year, as evidenced by our own triple-digit growth and the 92,000 companies that now count themselves Salesforce customers," said Chris Barbin, CEO of Appirio.

"The acquisition of Infowelders brings us a talented and experienced group of professionals who have proven themselves time and again in the cloud and Salesforce ecosystems," said Barbin.

Brown-Forman, one of the top 10 largest spirit companies known for brands such as Jack Daniel's, has been an Infowelders customer for over a year and recently signed on with Appirio for a company-wide Google (News - Alert) Apps and Salesforce Chatter strategy and roll-out.

"The Infowelders team did an incredible job getting us started with the cloud, but when you stop asking 'why cloud?' and start asking 'how do I get wall-to-wall cloud?' you need capabilities for longer-term adoption," said Jennifer McClinton, manager of information delivery at Brown-Forman.

"Appirio's experience in cloud strategy, governance, and its deep expertise across different cloud platforms can bring us to that next level," said McClinton.

"We've built a strong business by hiring the best talent, focusing on the right partners and delivering tangible bottom line results for our customers -- Appirio has that same reputation," said Adam Wiebe, President and CEO of Infowelders.

"We're excited to be part of Appirio's large and growing team of trusted cloud advisers, and look forward to serving a broader range of customers across the globe," said Wiebe.

TMCnet in September reported that although adoption of cloud has soared in the recent times, most of the enterprises are not using the right technology to utilize the cloud in its full potentials. As for example, with a cloud brokerage system in place, the IT enterprises will be able to better leverage the cloud-model.

Appirio, a cloud-solution provider has come up with a technology to address this challenge.

Appirio has been helping the companies to accelerate their cloud applications and platforms.  The company has brought about the first ever cloud broker technology. The technology is expected to help enterprises unleash information from SaaS (News - Alert) silos, solving a growing problem faced by enterprises who are moving multiple applications to the cloud.

In the release, announcing the lunch, Appirio informed that its CloudWorks product enables companies to build solutions that connect SaaS applications from leaders likeGoogle, salesforce.com, Workday and their ecosystem partners twice as fast, at one-third the cost of alternative approaches. The resulting cross-cloud solutions serve businesses by increasing productivity and improving data quality and compliance.