Systems integrators may have phenomenal data center capabilities, but may not have similar prowess in these emerging areas, and in using techniques like caching and creating an optimal IP addressing framework. Companies that need rapid implementation of Web capabilities and maximum uptime can use ASPs quite effectively. Users need to look at these functions as separate from each other, and work through the vendor evaluation process. Alliances among ASP vendors are also becoming commonplace. Just offering SAP or PeopleSoft, or even asset management, is no longer feasible.
Customers require a more complex, integrated set of tools.
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