But he draws the line at core business. U.S. Interactive's Fontes agrees that outsourcing an application could go either way as far as cost. Now our client is paying a lot of money for dedicated bandwidth. However, if the client pushes that application out to a co-location facility, then it doesn't have to worry about building the infrastructure to support it. He says this results in less hassle and lower costs.
ASPs have a greater variety of skills at their disposal than a typical user operation.
They also have access to the best technical minds. IT managers agree this might be true of the larger, established ASPs because they can usually pay more and offer better benefits than a traditional company. Also, the variety of projects available to work on at an ASP is often attractive to job seekers. He says it's important to look at an ASP's recruitment and management techniques. Support just isn't that good these days.