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What Is Application Hosting - Application Services Provider (ASP) Model?
Does your company need to launch new Internet, intranet or extranet site or upgrade an existing site as quickly as possible? Are you finding it hard to find or reallocate the IT staff to build out and maintain the computing infrastructure to support the application? Would you rather focus those resources on your company’s core competencies?
If these concerns sound familiar, then application hosting may be just the ticket. Read on to learn more about the benefits of this technology, how it works, whether it’s suitable for your situation, and what to look for in an application service provider (ASP) such as Full Partner.
Application Hosting Defined
Application hosting takes advantage of the internet and economies of scale for the delivery of eBusiness applications. A vendor acting as an ASP installs and maintains your business-critical applications at one or more of its professionally managed data centers. Your employees can then access the applications over the internet. In contrast to the traditional client-server model of implementing and maintaining applications entirely at your own facilities, the application hosting model lets your company run distributed applications without incurring the capital or personnel overhead of a complex computing infrastructure.
With application hosting:
- The programs and data are installed and maintained by the ASP's professional IT staff at its hosting facilities.
- The ASP and its IT staff build and maintain the computing infrastructure hardware, software, and networking.
- All you need is a web browser for each user, so it's easier to make the applications available to many more people in your organization.
- Your employees can access the application from anywhere: home, airports, hotels, or remote offices.
- The entire system--software, hardware, networking, services--is subject to a predictable monthly fee.
Benefits for Any Size Customer
If yours is a medium-sized business or a start-up, application hosting means that:
- Best-of-class applications are suddenly within your reach.
- You can be up and running with a complete internet infrastructure in much less time.
- You won't need to hire additional IT staff. The ASP's professional systems administrator, database administrator, and application management and support personnel implement and maintain the applications.
- The infrastructure is likely to be more reliable, flexible, and secure than the in-house alternative.
- You can concentrate on growing your business, rather than implementing and maintaining software and hardware.
Larger companies can look to application hosting for:
- Controllable and predictable costs.
- A way to outsource a horizontal application, a vertical division, or new eBusiness company initiatives.
- The flexibility to accommodate mergers, acquisitions, or reorganizations, maintaining corporate standards without adding computing infrastructure.
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