Top ASP News Stories
ASPs: Stayin' Alive
Analysts say the market is gaining strength and maturingASP Plans Survive
KPMG ends Qwest Cyber.Solutions investments, works on enabler platform
Like Bees To Honey, WASPs Are Swarming
As one industry sage recently declared about wireless application service providers:
The devil is in the details.
ASPs
struggle to win over users
Most application service providers (ASPs) are unlikely to reach critical mass, with
users shunning all but the most simple packages offered, according to analyst Giga
Information Group.
CA's big ASP plans creeping
Company slow to deliver on ambitious scheme
Avenues To ASP Aggregation
Looking forward in 2001, Outtask, Jamcracker, Agiliti fine-tune their strategies
Is Computer Associates' iCAN doing it?
CA had everything going for it when it announced its ambitious ASP
strategy. Six months later, still no products. And competition is growing.
Rental
Model Proves Difficult For ASPs
One promise of software as a service is to change the way companies pay for
applications.
Dell
services push to include ASPs, consultants
Dell Computer will announce on Thursday a program that will make it easier for
its customers to find consulting help.
ASP success 'still
years away'
Application service provision (ASP) has been over-hyped and could take a further two
years to take off in earnest
Who wants to be an ASP?
More ink has been spilled and more Internet bandwidth consumed in the last year in the
ongoing discussion of the latest darling of telecommmunications industry: application
service providers (ASPs).
Many ASP jobs still available despite 'shakeout' fears
Application service providers (ASPs), the technology darlings of 1999, face a major
shake-up. That's the consensus among doom-and-gloom forecasters who insist the ASP market
will undergo a major cleansing over the next few years.
Being
Strategic With Your ASP
Medium-sized businesses that are implementing successful E-business strategies are
spending 30% to 50% of their technology budgets on such initiatives.
Purchasing An ASP Service: Lessons Learned
From Executives
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recommendations for how to procure the services of an ASP.
Micron
ASP push: Last chance?
PC maker Micron Electronics Inc. will transform its HostPro Inc. subsidiary into a
full-fledged ASP later this year, a move that experts say may be a last-ditch effort to
save the company.
Signs of maturity as ASPs consolidate
During the week that HotOffice finally closed down, there is now an announcement that
Agilera is about to acquire Applicast.
Excite@Home with ASPs
Corralling acquired companies onto a common IT infrastructure is an age-old challenge
traditionally tackled by in-house staff. Today, some network executives are turning to
application service providers for help.
ASP Report Shows That More Than 75% of Executive Management Needs Further
Education About ASP Benefits
For example, data from IDC indicates that while 50% of corporate executives have heard of
the ASP concept, only 36% would consider using an ASP
Are ASPs the next dot-coms?
Few have jumped in wholeheartedly; most have begun tentative exploration, reluctant to
take strong, decisive action in an emerging market that too closely resembles the dismal
dot-com market.
McAfee.com
eyes businesses with online offerings:
Antivirus software maker McAfee.com is gunning for the business market with a raft of new
Web-based offerings, including word-processing and security software and online data
storage.
ireserve Announces Revolutionary Technology That ``Pushes'' Data To Browser-Based Apps
ireserve, an ASP providing a full-service reservation and appointment system for local
merchants and professional services firms, such as restaurants, beauty salons, health
clubs, spas and doctors
Start-ups race to rent out
telephony services
Several start-ups hope to grab a piece of the competitive but lucrative communications
market by renting out and managing Net-based telephony services
Info Directions Launches
Self-Hosted ASP Billing Solution
Info Directions provides a direct connection via the Internet to
integrated communications providers seeking hosted applications
Sorting out the ASP market
60% of existing ASPs will fail by the second half of next year, according to an industry
analyst speaking in Orlando Monday.
Who's
Liable for Downtime?
With more mission-critical applications now being hosted as remote
services, outages can be a nightmare for both an application service provider (ASP) and
its clients.
Staying Secure
Outsourcing your data to an application service provider (ASP) is not unlike placing your
money in a bank. But just as you would not deposit funds in an unguarded bank, neither
should you entrust your company's most valuable assets to a poorly-guarded ASP.
Avoiding
ASP Angst
Asking the right
questions up front can mean the difference between a dream relationship and a nightmarish
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