Appirio widgets live at AppExchange

By Vivek | May 30th, 2007 at 10:36 pm ET         

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. 

Yesterday I had a quick chat with Narinder Singh from Appirio about the future direction the startup plans to take in terms of the product.  Their plan is to continue offering the basic widgets for free, and probably start charging a small fee for additional features. Still, no current plans to charge the end users. Future enhancement coming to the widgets in the next 1-3 weeks include addition of gadget manager that a company account admin would be able to install into Salesforce to control the fields that can show up in the widgets. So, instead of showing the default set of information, companies would be able to customize and deliver the right information. Again these controls will not be available the user level, and would result in company account wide changes. However, as Appirio already offers 4  widgets delivering data from entirely 4 datasources inside Salesforce, this would not be an issue with most of the small-mid sized customers.

As for those people expecting similar widgets from Appirio for Netsuite, SugarCRM and likes, the startup is purely focusing on Salesforce.

Links:
Appirio widgets at AppExchange
Appirio