Strategic Partners

Leading the Way with Google Apps for the Enterprise

Appirio delivers a full range of products and services focused on helping accelerate the adoption of on-demand solutions such as Google Apps. Appirio's Google Enterprise practice offers SaaS strategy, implementation and change management services, plus a product portfolio that brings together the power of Google Apps and salesforce.com. Together, these offerings enable companies to take full advantage of Google’s on-demand, messaging and collaboration applications, while reducing migration and implementation risk and increasing user adoption.

Our expertise includes migration from Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Groupwise.

Appirio Products for Google Apps

Salesforce for Google Apps

strategyBring together Salesforce and Google

The Goal

  • Bring together Google Apps™ and Salesforce to allow companies to easily synchronize calendars, collaborate on marketing campaigns, find and embed documents, and create and share customized CRM dashboards.

Appirio Enterprise Services for Google Apps - Strategy and Concept

SaaS Strategy

strategy How to leverage on-demand solutions

The Goal

  • Help medium and large enterprises find a better way to match business needs with their technology portfolio, leveraging on-demand solutions like Google Apps

What We Deliver

  • Inventory of business and IT initiatives
  • Inventory of applications and servers currently deployed
  • Options for portfolio management approach

Google Apps Assessment

strategy How Google can help your business

The Goal

  • Help companies understand and experience how to use Google Apps to improve collaboration, evaluate direct and indirect financial benefits, and integrate Google Apps into an overall on-demand and IT strategy

What We Deliver

  • Live Google Apps concept for your business
  • ROI—estimate of business benefits and TCO
  • Evaluation matrix doc (test cases, success criteria)
  • Use case specific feature comparisons

Appirio Enterprise Services for Google Apps - Implementation and Migration

Messaging Solutions Rollout

strategy Improve communications

The Goal

  • Help companies make a successful, rapid transition from legacy applications such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange to Google’s Gmail, GCal and GTalk offerings

What We Deliver

  • Application configuration
  • Targeted number of users provisioned and migrated
  • Project definition, requirements documentation
  • Test case development and execution
  • Integration with SSO

Collaboration / KM Rollout

strategy Work better together

The Goal

  • Help companies make a successful, rapid transition from legacy collaboration and knowledge management applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Domino to Google’s Sites and Documents offerings

What We Deliver

  • Wireframes and site taxonomy
  • Application configuration
  • Targeted number of users provisioned and migrated
  • Project definition, requirements documentation
  • Test case development and execution
  • Integration with SSO
  • Policy and best practice documentation

Salesforce for Google Rollout

strategySolutions for business,
meet solutions for businesspeople

The Goal

  • Help bridge the gap between the tools that businesses need to run (salesforce.com) and the tools that people use to work (Google Apps)

What We Deliver

  • Implementation of native Salesforce for Google Apps functionality
  • Implementation and extension of Appiro's products for Salesforce and Google Apps

Custom Development

strategy Match your business - exactly

The Goal

  • Help companies leverage the power of Google as a platform to meet their custom application development or industry-specific business needs

What We Deliver

  • Custom dashboard on your company’s Google start page - build gadgets to integrate to existing systems in your business
  • E.g. Critical salesforce.com data displayed in a Google Gadget

Appirio Enterprise Services for Google Apps - Education and Change Management

Education & Change Mgmt.

strategy Moving towards the future one step at a time

The Goal

  • Successful adoption rates through an integrated set of change management plans including communications and training targeting executives, administrators, evangelists, help desk staff, and of course end users
  • Change Management: Holistic approach to your education solution encompassing business goals, rollout plan, and ongoing content design and delivery.
  • Content Creation: Education requires well thought-out support materials, whether it's a script and a job aid for a quick virtual session or a complete set of training materials for a major implementation.
  • Delivery: Our Education Services group combines a consultative approach with training delivery

What We Deliver

  • Stakeholder analysis template
  • Training slides
  • End user guide
  • FAQ
  • GApp lab exercise guide
  • Cheat sheets
  • Live training
  • Video training
  • Advocates list
  • Client implementation support roles matrix
  • Communication plan
  • OCM Workstreams
  • Project Plan