ASPs provide a compelling alternative to the traditional options of building or buying.
By using more innovative ASPs you can access functionality that can give a real competitive advantage that could not be built or managed without the scarce specialist IS staff that ASPs have available. Premiere Technologies, a leading management communications provider, uses an ASP called Transchannel to access PeopleSoft, which has been web-enabled by Citrix. This has saved the company 12-18 months' deployment time and tens of millions of dollars. It has also given the company access to new expertise, and enabled newly acquired offices and remote staff to make quicker use of the application. Large companies are also particularly attracted to ASPs to gain a competitive advantage in e-business quickly, because of the reduced implementation time and the access to specialist expertise that they provide.