Case Name :      Appirio: New Venture on a Cloud

Authors :           Bala Iyer, Erik Noyes

Source:              Babson College

Case ID:             BAB694

Discipline :        General Management

Case Length :    12 pages

Solution sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

Appirio, a Cloud Computing services and consulting business, is experiencing explosive growth buoyed by its successful strategic partnerships with Google and Salesforce.com. The company practices what it preaches — choosing to keep all of its systems in the cloud. Appirio’s senior leadership team is convinced that building its venture on the cloud offers extreme competitive advantages in terms of agility, ability to scale and employee empowerment to drive rapid innovation. Will Appirio ascend to rocket heights or are the skies darkening with challenges that will hurt a cloud pure-play such as Appirio? What lessons, if any, are there for other entrepreneurs hoping to turn their IT systems into an entrepreneurial growth engine?