Appirio acquires Saaspoint for push into Europe | ZDNet
Summary
The acquisition is Appirios first significant foray into the European theater, delivering on the international expansion promised after GGV Capital and Salesforce.com invested in the company in August. It is regarded as one of Europes leading Salesforce.com integrators (see previous coverage), although its activities are mainly limited to Ireland and the UK, where customers include well-known names such as British Gas, CitiLink and Rentokil. Although late to Europe in comparison to rivals such as Bluewolf and Astadia, chief strategy officer Narinder Singh told me Appirio has picked a good time to make its entry. Appirio will have to compete with a lively local SI industry in Europe, including pureplay cloud integrators and larger incumbents such as Cap Gemini and Atos, which recently captured headlines with its CEOs plan to abandon email internally. Saaspoint, which has focused mainly on Salesforce.coms core Force.com platform and Ruby development on Heroku, will have to come up to speed with Appirios additional areas of expertise in Workday and Google.