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Overview
Learn how to use Application Service Providers to enhance the future of your business!
Application Service Providers in Business is a comprehensive analysis of the present ASP model and its place in business today. Business success in today’s information-intensive marketplace depends on a company’s ability to acquire and fully use the latest advancements in business-critical applications. By having these applications delivered as services over the Internet, businesses can lessen the demands on company IT staff, and increase the ability to get complex software into use immediately. Within this context, a new outsourcing business model called ASP (Application Service Provider) has emerged that is transforming how businesses access and leverage software applications. The book explains the specific contingent ASP models, including business, enterprise, functional-focused, and vertical market ASPs, and ASP aggregators. It demonstrates how different ASP models have fulfilled diverse market/customer expectations and explores future scenarios for current ASP business models. Case studies, tables, and figures illustrate important concepts and make complex information easy to access and understand.
Based on a thorough analysis of the ASP market environment, the book provides detailed Best Practices Guidelines that managers of ASPs can use to improve the chances of success of their respective ASPs. It outlines contingency factors such as application offerings, customer selection, operations, and strategic fit. The book also not only assists business managers in deciding on whether to use an ASP, but it presents ways to use ASPs to effectively support their business process. The ability to provide the workforce with access to data whenever and wherever is crucial for positively impacting a company’s profitability, and ASPs provide the software to make it possible.
Topics included in Application Service Providers in Business are:
- Best Practices Guidelines
- strategic management
- management decision making and planning
- IT management and outsourcing
- future of the ASP market
- ASP business models
- and much more!
Synopsis
A manager at Boeing and two professors at St. John's University examine the business models of application service provider (ASP) companies that host, deliver, and manage computer software applications and services from remote data centers to multiple users across a wide area network via the internet or other private dedicated networks. They summarize the experiences of actual business, enterprise, specialist, and vertical-market ASPs, identify emerging best practices, and analyze the long-term prospects for the ASP marketplace. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR