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The Orange County Register, Calif., Cathy Brower Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2000 by Brower, Cathy
Jan. 31--ASP SERVICES ARE HOT, BOTH IN PERFORMANCE AND IN BIZ SPEAK: I thought today might be a good day for a primer. ASPs are all the buzz in small-business circles. ASP stands for Application Service Provider, a new breed of outsourcing company that uses the Internet to support a variety of business functions. Sounds a little bizarre, but it actually makes some sense.
Think about electronic payroll services. Take an essential but laborious in-house process, automate it, and run it remotely for a fee.
Thanks to the World Wide Web and other intranet interface technologies (a.k.a. your browser software), any number of tasks -- from general administrative duties such as accounting and human resources to industry-specific tasks involving document...
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