Application Service Providers: Market and Adoption Decisions.
The article presents a discussion of application service providers (ASMs). These firms specialize in providing software applications over the internet to firms which choose to outsource such functions. An overview of the industry's development is presented, and ASMs are distinguished from independen...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 113 - 118 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jul2010
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| Sumario: | The article presents a discussion of application service providers (ASMs). These firms specialize in providing software applications over the internet to firms which choose to outsource such functions. An overview of the industry's development is presented, and ASMs are distinguished from independent software vendors. Factors which should be considered by businesses evaluating the possibility of using an ASM are also discussed. These include software customization requirements, financial stability, and exit strategies. |
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