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What Cloudsourcing Means for Professional Services Organizations

Current Situation

Running a productive professional services organization is challenging: growing your business in the face of global competition, putting effective processes in place to service your demanding client base, and ensuring effective collaboration across globally dispersed teams is difficult even in the best economic climate. Being successful in today's environment requires relentless focus on your core competencies.

For many services businesses, IT operations are not a core competency nor should they be. Running a data center is becoming more and more like operating a nuclear power plant—something best left to the experts. What if you could build your business on a pre-integrated set of cloud-based applications that can help you attract and serve clients better? What if you could lean on experts to migrate and manage your IT infrastructure in the cloud?

Appirio Cloudsourcing Solution for Professional Services Organizations

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 looking for ways to reduce your IT spend while delivering innovation that will help you serve your customers better, we have a solution for you.  Appirio can help you reduce your IT spend by 30 to 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,Appirio PS Enterprise to manage your people, projects and financials, and Google Apps to collaborate gives you a server-less, highly elastic, cost-effective and agile technology foundation for your services business.

In addition, Appirio will deliver a set of services to enable the smooth migration and management of your 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 for Professional Service Organizations

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:Appirio's Professional Services Cloud tightly integrates the solutions to manage your customers, projects, people and financials which helps you close the loop across project sales, staffing and delivery.  And, with Social PS Enterprise and PS Connect, you can enable collaboration of your teams and make your applications "social".

Lowered Risk: Appirio will manage the entire migration to the cloud, while allowing 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 collaborate using Google Apps, run our sales and support processes using Salesforce CRM, and manage our people, projects, customers and financials using PS Enterprise, our end-to-end services management application built on Force.com. The results? We've grown our business 400% over the past 2 years, spent about 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.