Case Study - Appirio as the Serverless Enterprise

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A ii C St d S l Et i Appirio Case Study: Serverless Ent erprise

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Glenn Weinstein, Appirio's Chief Technology Officer, describes how the midsize company runs its entire IT without any infrastructure. No servers, no networks, no hardware - just 100% reliance on public cloud computing.

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A i i C St d S l E t iAppirio Case Study: Serverless Enterprise

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Appirio’s IT Infrastructure

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Business Services

, ,Gadgets, MobileCustomers Partners

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ApplicationsApplicationsFinancialsFinancialsFinancialsFinancials

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Scope to DeliveryLead to Reorder

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IT Impact: Appirio IT Spend is About Half of Benchmark

IT Spend as % of Revenue

6.8%7%8%

6.0%

4.4%3.9% 3.5%4%

5%6%7%

Appirio’s All Cloud IT:3% of Revenue

2.4%

1%2%3%

0%<$50M $50‐250M $250‐500M $500‐1B $1‐10B $10B+

Gartner Benchmark: IT Staffing and Spend Report, 2009

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Business Impact:  Delivery Excellence 

Headcount growth in 2 years with minimal IT involvementinvolvement. 

Revenue growth in 2 years with minimal IT involvement.

Services Operations staff manage 2 500Services Operations staff manage 2,500 resource assignments and 658 projects.

Repeat business driven by satisfied customers