Appirio and PS Village launch the Professional Services Cloud "Ask the Experts" Series

Over the past few months, Appirio has been honored and excited to become a part of PSVillage, which is a fantastic community of professional services leaders. Our discussions with the PSVillage community confirmed what we've believed for a while - that we, as an industry, have not been well supported by traditional enterprise applications. If we are using a solution today, it was most likely selected by some other group (Finance or IT). The reality for most of us is that we're managing our operations using legacy and custom-built solutions, with lots of painful spreadsheet workarounds. This is 2009, we have an enormous amount of technology at our finger tips, but there has been very little innovation for services teams. We have seen the paradigm shift from on-premise to the cloud for the Sales and Support teams. Why not professional services?

Appirio was founded in 2006 to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of the cloud. We currently serve over 2,500 organizations and are proud to have worked with many of salesforce.com and Google Enterprise's largest customers. We also practice what we preach-- we run our entire business in the cloud. We spend less than 2% of our revenue on IT, and have grown from 5 to 150 employees with no changes in the size of our IT team or capital investment. Best of all, we're able to focus on what matters most to every services business, people and customers, rather than on IT infrastructure.

Since we'd like every professional services firm to experience the same benefits we've experienced, we're working with PSVillage on a series of "Ask the Expert" events to help professional services firms take advantage of the cloud:

• First, check out our white paper-- it answers the question: "What is cloud computing, and why is it relevant to professional services?"
• Second, join us for a webinar on how you can build a business-case-driven roadmap to the cloud

We want to have a conversation with you about how cloud computing can help you achieve your business objectives. In order to tailor the conversation, please take 5 minutes to fill out this 10 question survey. We'll use this to tailor our content going forward and will of course share the results with you here and in our upcoming webinar.

We look forward to continuing the conversation here and in PSVillage!

UPDATE: View the webinar recording here...