Appirio brings Salesforce to Google IG
By Vivek | April 30th, 2007 at 03:23 pm ET
Appirio today launched it’s first set of widgets that bring your Salesforce data onto Google Personalized Page. A quick check reveals that no one had worked on this integration. Strange but true. I would have expected Charlie Wood to get to this, but nevertheless Narinder+Team@Appirio are celebrating the launch right now.
Appirio widgets deliver you Accounts, Opportunities, Contacts, Cases, and Tasks data from Salesforce directly to your Google homepage. As a user you will get access to latest updates on your account with added ability to filter and view details, while drill down takes you to Salesforce.com.
Appirio has similar widgets available for Yahoo Widget engine.
Etelos is another startup working on building CRM right on the top of Google IG. Would be an useful option to have for non-Salesforce users.
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on April 30th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Vivek,
Thanks, but I’ve had my hands full with Spanning Sync the past few months. That being said, Appirio CEO Chris Barbin and I have a shared vision of where this whole Enterprise 2.0 thing is going. For the time being, we’re plowing different parts of the same field, but I’m sure we’ll meet in the middle at some point.
Regards,
Charlie
on May 4th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
[…] So, what we really need are frictionless apps system that run right off our personalized pages. Appirio is doing a great job in bringing Salesforce content onto iGoogle, and Yahoo Widgets. I would say, a great option for existing Salesforce users who want to access data without browsing onto Salesforce.com. While Appirio widgets are for free as of now, you still need to pay for Salesforce. That would be a pricey option if you want to manage basic things like - contacts, tasks, appointment,…. […]
on May 20th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Thanks for the positive feedback. We are getting great response to the iGoogle Gadgets. We found the difference between the Yahoo Widgets and Google Gadgets to be analogous to on-premise vs. on-demand software; thus we’ll be doing more with the Google gadgets
The Gadgets are available from our site, the Google Enterprise gallery (http://www.google.com/enterprise/gallery/apps/gadgets.html), and Appexchange any day now. Keep sending us your feedback and we’ll do more!
on May 30th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
[…] Appirio, the San Francisco, CA based startup that offers services and support to Salesforce customers, has finally gone live with it’s iGoogle based widgets at Salesforce AppExchange. I had written about the private beta launch of these widgets couple of weeks back. […]