Strategic Partners

Leading the Way with Google Enterprise

Appirio delivers a full range of products and services focused on helping accelerate the adoption of on-demand solutions such as Google Enterprise. Appirio's Google Enterprise practice offers SaaS strategy, implementation and change management services, plus a product portfolio that brings together the power of Google Enterprise 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.

Appirio Products for Google Enterprise

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 Services for Google Enterprise - 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 Services for Google Enterprise - 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 Services for Google Enterprise - 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