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What Cloudsourcing Means for IT Management

Current Situation

Today, enterprises in every sector are figuring out how to do more with less. More than ever, there is a need for innovation and agility. IT leaders are looking to cloud computing to deliver much needed innovation with minimal capital expenditures. This is driven by the compelling business case for cloud computing—shared infrastructure that allows IT to address emerging business requirements 2-5x faster at 30–40% lower cost.

As a result, more and more CIOs are "thinking big" about the cloud. But this requires CIOs to answer a host of questions: What is my roadmap to move applications to the cloud? How do I manage this transition? What are the risks and how do I mitigate them? How do I govern a cloud-based architecture? To help them answer these questions and manage their transition to the cloud, CIOs need a new type of partner—one with a lot more expertise in the cloud.

Appirio's Cloudsourcing Solution

Welcome to Cloudsourcing: Sourcing complete solutions to run your business from the cloud—by knitting together cloud applications, cloud platforms, and cloud infrastructure. If you are spending more than 5% of your revenue on IT and are looking at ways to reduce the spend while delivering innovation, we have a solution for you.  Appirio can help you reduce your IT spend by 30–50% and improve alignment with your business objectives by moving your IT infrastructure to the cloud.

Appirio offers a set of products and professional services that make cloudsourcing possible.

The foundation of Appirio's Cloudsourcing solution is a pre-integrated Cloud Suite. The combination of Salesforce CRM to manage your customers, Google Apps to collaborate and in certain verticals Appirio PS Enterprise to manage your people, projects and financials, gives you a highly elastic, cost-effective, agile—and serverless—technology foundation for your business.

In addition, Appirio will deliver a set of services to enable the smooth migration and management of your entire IT infrastructure in the cloud. Cloud Strategy Services will provide a business-case driven roadmap to the cloud and Cloud Migration Services will help you successfully execute your Cloud roadmap. Cloud Development Services will help you build custom cloud applications to support your unique business processes. Post-migration, Appirio will manage and enhance your cloud-based IT environment through its Cloud Management Services.

Cloudsourcing Benefits

Lowered TCO: Cloudsourcing enables a 30 - 50% reduction in TCO by dramatically lowering your hardware and IT personnel costs.

Improved Business Agility: Cloudsourcing delivers a set of pre-integrated cloud applications that make it possible to move quickly to meet the needs of the business.

Improved User Effectiveness: By knitting together the cloud applications that you use to run your business, your users will have the right information at the right time to make the right decision for your business.

Lowered Risk: Appirio will manage the entire migration to the cloud, enabling you to focus on what's unique to your business. Based on our expertise gathered from working with 150+ enterprise customers, we will help you mitigate your technology and business risks and ensure value capture.

Why are we so confident in the Cloudsourcing approach?

Because this is how we have run our own business from the beginning—as a serverless enterprise. We've grown our business 400% over the past 2 years, spent less than 3% of our revenue on IT, and have no capital tied up in IT infrastructure. We've experienced the benefits of running our entire business in the cloud, and work with customers every day who are taking steps in that same direction.

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