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Communications of the ACM, 2010
Introduction IT outsourcing has been a viable business strategy since the late 1950s when companies began to invest significant resources in outside computing services. As IT managers increasingly used time sharing, contract programming, and facilities management, the next few decades saw accompanying increases in ...
Yurong Yao +2 more
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Introduction IT outsourcing has been a viable business strategy since the late 1950s when companies began to invest significant resources in outside computing services. As IT managers increasingly used time sharing, contract programming, and facilities management, the next few decades saw accompanying increases in ...
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Application service providers in dentistry
Dental Clinics of North America, 2002ASP practice management systems are a new and potentially useful service for the dental profession. ASP systems have the potential to reduce the time, effort, and expense required to maintain computer-based practice management functions. ASP systems can deliver a rich array of functions at a distance, eliminate concerns about upgrades, back-ups, and ...
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2005
Until recently, the development of information systems has been ruled by the traditional “make or buy” paradigm (Williamson, 1975). In other words, firms could choose whether to develop particular applications within their organizational structure or to acquire infrastructures and competences from specialized operators.
Vincenzo Morabito, Bernardino Provera
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Until recently, the development of information systems has been ruled by the traditional “make or buy” paradigm (Williamson, 1975). In other words, firms could choose whether to develop particular applications within their organizational structure or to acquire infrastructures and competences from specialized operators.
Vincenzo Morabito, Bernardino Provera
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Enabling Service Aggregation for Providers of Consumer Services and Applications
2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009The OSGi™ service platform is universal middleware for Java-based platforms that provides capabilities for enabling service providers to deploy consumer applications and services via various business models. This paper describes motivation and requirements for a service aggregation business model and describes how OSGi technology supports it.
Stanley Moyer, Peter Kriens
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Evaluating application service providers
Benchmarking: An International Journal, 2003Discusses the application service provider (ASP) model, which is emerging as a new form of application outsourcing. At present, the ASP marketplace is largely vendor driven with huge numbers of vendors offering a variety of applications to the customer.
Yamaya Ekanayaka +2 more
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2006
Technological changes within the last decade have dramatically changed the business climate. The use of Internet by firms has lead to global production, consumption, and competition. Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, “is a modern business methodology that addresses the needs of organizations, merchants, and consumers to cut costs while improving the ...
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Technological changes within the last decade have dramatically changed the business climate. The use of Internet by firms has lead to global production, consumption, and competition. Electronic commerce, or e-commerce, “is a modern business methodology that addresses the needs of organizations, merchants, and consumers to cut costs while improving the ...
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Application service providers: challenges and opportunities
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2001Application service provider is the new Internet buzzword. It describes a business model in which software is provided as an accessible service over distributed servers on the Internet. A growing number of applications (usually available as stand-alone programs on your computer), are also being made available as hosted subscription services.
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Application Service Providers: Will They Succeed?
Information Systems Frontiers, 2000This article examines the likelihood of success for application service providers (ASP) drawing from the outsourcing literature, interviews with ASPs in the USA, and the experience of Bennett who has held leadership roles in ASP and ERP in South East Asia.
Chris Bennett, Greg Timbrell
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Healthcare informatics : the business magazine for information and communication systems, 2001
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Application service providers: an application of the transaction cost model
Information Management & Computer Security, 2003Application service providers (ASPs) are expected to become a $25 billion industry by 2004. A firm’s decision to build or buy its IT infrastructure is dependent upon an application of transaction cost theory. These theories substantively explain a firm’s decision to outsource IT services to an ASP.
Alan D. Smith, William T. Rupp
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