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• Meta: ASPs outsourcers

  Meta Group maintains that the ASP industry is not a unique market segment, but rather a derivative of the commoditisation of application outsourcing services.

• ASP users cast off IT burden

  The reasons for outsourcing IT functions to an application service provider are as varied as the companies who use them, but customers all say the same thing: it’s a lot better than what they had.

• Born again

  More broadband services, lower bandwidth costs and further development of web-based computing are breathing new life into the application service provider market.

• Questions to ask an ASP

  Considering using an ASP? Here are some questions to put to potential suppliers.

• IDC: ASPs find viable niches in Asia-Pacific

  ASPs will need to focus on particular vertical industries

• Building Depot inks deal with ASP

  Retail sector's understanding of thin client and ASP technology has improved

• IT à la carte

  Hundreds of dot-com failures were expected to drag down the ASP (application service provider) model. But even as the number of ASP providers declines in the US, they report greater demand for their services. Brian J Dooley finds out how ASPs are faring in New Zealand and how they are battling for local survival.

• Capital expenditure

  Dot-com crash or not, e-commerce is coming to all companies, big and small, with its promise of riches and business-changing possibilities. For those looking to update their financial software to cope with the demands of e-commerce, it may be a scary prospect -- and a tough decision. Can an application service provider help?

• Whoosh launched as ASP

  Range of benefits from renting health and safety system