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Introduction to the Cloud Powered Business

What is a Cloud Powered Business?

Building a cloud-powered business requires recognizing the ways that your business has been boxed in by the limitations of your old, on-premise technology... and breaking through those limitations.

On premise technology is expensive and difficult to change, so IT is too often an inhibitor of business innovation instead of an enabler. A cloud-powered business is different: The public cloud enables your business to do more with less, and gives you the agility to adapt to rapid market shifts. Cloud technology makes information available to an increasingly mobile, social workforce. This is much more than just a technology change—making the most of this shift requires rethinking what’s possible when your business runs on the cloud.

Where do I start?

Where do you start the journey to become a cloud-powered business? Where ever there’s business need—our customers have found that almost any part of your business can be cloud-powered. And as more and more of your business is powered by cloud applications and platforms like Salesforce, Google, and Workday, you find that the benefits to cloud adoption accelerate. For example:

• Cloud-Powered Sales and Marketing: The cloud allows you to put your customers at the center of your sales and marketing process, keeping prospects more engaged and your sales team more productive. Appirio has helped over 100 enterprises use Salesforce Sales Cloud as the foundation for a cloud-powered sales team that work wherever your customers are, is as social as your sales team, and as flexible as your business needs to be to win new business.
  
• Cloud-Powered Service and Support: The cloud enables you to engage with customers where ever they are, not just through a call center. Appirio has helped over 100 enterprises use Salesforce Service Cloud to effectively engage with the community around their products and services, resulting in productive (and happy) customer service representatives serving delighted customers.
  
• Cloud-Powered IT: The cloud frees enterprise IT to partner with the business as a change leader, innovation driver, and process enabler. But the cloud requires IT to work differently across the application development lifecycle– you need to plan differently, develop differently, and support differently. Appirio has helped deliver more that 1000 cloud projects for the leading enterprise customers of Salesforce, Google, and Workday.
  
• Cloud-Powered HR & Finance: The cloud allows HR & Finance functions to support rapidly changing business needs, delivering flexibility and scalability for significantly less cost. Appirio has helped dozens of companies move HR and Financial apps to the cloud, including a rapidly growing Workday practice.
  
• Cloud-Powered Employees: The cloud allows every employee to communicate and collaborate more productively, making social and mobile work patterns a reality for the enterprise. Appirio has moved over 1 million end-users to a set of connected cloud apps, including many of the largest enterprise and educational deployments of Google Apps.
  

Why Appirio?

• Our Expertise: Appirio has deep functional expertise in sales, service, HR, Finance, and IT—both traditional best practices and emerging best practices enabled by social and mobile technology. Appirio also has the technical expertise to implement those best practices on leading cloud platforms.
• Our Approach: Building a cloud-powered business take a cloud-focused partner. Appirio’s experts are 100% focused on the public cloud, and are enabled by cloud-specific tools for iterative development, deployment, and management of your cloud-powered business.
• Our Results: Appirio has worked with more than 250 enterprise customers on over 1,000 cloud deployments in sales, marketing service, HR, finance, and IT.
• Our Innovation: Appirio’s customer-driven innovation has been showcased at events like Dreamforce more than any other partner—this year’s Dreamforce highlighted innovative cloud solutions from Appirio customers in over 40 different sessions.
• Our Partnerships: Appirio has strategic partnerships with the leaders in enterprise cloud computing including Salesforce, Google, Amazon and Workday.