The ASP market is booming.
ASPs take traditional outsourcing to a new level.
They harness the power of the Internet to supply companies with applications for each employee s desktop computer, laptop, personal digital assistant, or mobile phone. The ASP maintains the hardware needed to host complex applications, dramatically reducing the cost of buying, maintaining, and upgrading an information technology system. Access to e-mail, which is used by outsourced applications to deliver reports, documents, etc. A firewall to ensure security during transmission. High speed connections using a virtual private network, for example.