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RSS aspsAn Overview of the Guide to Service Level Agreements
White Paper The Guide to Service Level Agreements produced by members of the Application Service Provider Industry Consortium is intended to help service providers, and especially application service providers (ASPs), prepare, and negotiate service level... [03 Jul 2008]
Network Intelligence for GPRS
White Paper By introducing in its network the identified services, a network operator can evolve from provider of mobile connectivity for data communications between the mobile terminal and the ISP to provider of value-added network services for data... [03 Jul 2008]
Develop Wireless Applications Using J2ME: Update on Java Support for Mobile Phones, Two-Way Pagers, and Related Consumer Products
White Paper Real J2ME-based devices are on sale today; network operators are beginning to deploy the technologies to support downloadable Java code to devices; and ASPs and traditional ISVs are currently developing software based on J2ME. [03 Jul 2008]
Bluetooth Enabled PDA
White Paper This MindTree client develops browser-based wired and wireless products for ISPs, ASPs, systems integrators, and small to medium enterprises and SOHOs. In executing its strategy to build fully featured groupware, messaging, and other information... [03 Jul 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News That figure doesn't include application service providers (ASPs) that use open source to service their clients. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of... [22 Apr 2008]
HelpCaster Technologies Enables Service Providers With IP Communications Platform
White Paper Telco's, ISPs and ASPs everywhere are seeking new ways to enter the Web 2.0 market, generate new revenue streams and differentiate themselves from their competition. At the same time, these companies are also trying to reduce customer churn and to... [08 Feb 2008]
How Service Providers Can Provide Customers With Increased DSL Bandwidth and Reliability
White Paper The bandwidth challenge faced by many ISPs and ASPs is how to provide more bandwidth to or from their customers' networks within the limitations of the access technologies currently available. This is especially important for service providers that... [19 Oct 2007]
SLA Management
White Paper The services, among others, include offsite application management (ASPs), offsite network management (MSPs), Web hosting services, dedicated leased lines, and shared packet-oriented services. A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a... [26 Jul 2007]
Pure Play Is Dead; Long Live Convergence
White Paper New competitors abound, with Internet ASPs such as Google, Skype, and Yahoo using inexpensive VoIP services to grab market share. The good old days when access technology and regulation defined competitive boundaries between service providers are... [28 Nov 2006]
Enabling Internet Applications
White Paper In order to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market, Application Service Providers (ASPs) and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are broadening their service offerings. ASPs are now expected to offer personalized web support... [06 Oct 2006]
Ornis Increases Growth Rate by More Than 20 Percent With IBM Service Management Initiative
White Paper But for Application Service Providers (ASPs) who bet their businesses on providing uninterrupted services, it can mean the difference between success and failure. As a result, Ornis, one of France's leading ASPs, is breaking new ground in its... [23 Aug 2006]
Don't Get Bitten by Your ASP
White Paper There is a great deal of truth in the observation that ASPs are in fact the latest variant of outsourcing or computer bureau with an Internet slant. SLAs are intimately connected with outsourcing and few companies will outsource a service without... [23 Aug 2006]
Leader: How to cut piracy overnight
Leader Last month silicon.com reported that companies offering software as a service - or ASPs if you dare resurrect the term - have hit something of a sweet spot in 2006. This week we've seen McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec bemoaning the problem of... [19 May 2006]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment The ubiquity of cheap broadband connections for business overcomes many of the service quality issues that affected the early ASPs. It is also a key battleground in the fight between hosted and on-premise software. [02 May 2006]
2006 to see falling mobile phone prices
News Suominen concluded: "In the mobile devices market, we expect to see growth not only in volume but also in value but we expect there will be some decline in the industry's ASPs. Revealing its latest set of financial results, Nokia announced it has... [27 Jan 2006]
