Transportation Industry
The ABCs of ASPs.(application service providers)
Transportation & Distribution, November, 2000 by Harrington, Lisa H.
APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS--I.E., SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS DELIVERED VIA THE WEB--ARE SHAKING UP THE SUPPLY CHAIN IT LANDSCAPE. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON. "We are the counter culture to the big ERP installations." That's how Craig Cullinan, vice president of sales and marketing for Hudson, OH-based ShipLogix describes ASPs, application service providers.
This relatively new pay-as-you-go approach to delivering software solutions over the Internet is taking off. At the moment, there are 800 ASPs and counting, offering almost any kind of software/IT solution imaginable. Boston-based AMR Research Inc. predicts that the Enterprise ASP market will reach $4.7 billion by 2004, with a compound annual growth rate of 153%. According to AMR's latest ASP...
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