When application service provider Appshop Inc. publicly launches this week, the company will have already signed on and implemented hosting services for 50 customers.
ASPs promise fabulous benefits.
But more and more we're hearing troublesome reports about disappointed companies and disgruntled ASPs. Vance Loiselle, ASP Director of Business Operations, for Breakaway Solutions, led this December 2000 Roundtable which focused on the ins and outs of effective and productive ASP solutions, and our readers were stimulated to participate in lively discussion that was both challenging and instructive. It also requires sacrifice. A company's e-business prospects are often derailed by poor customer support because companies don't understand the frantic pace of Internet time. The senior vice president of advanced strategies at Microsoft talks about everything from the election to Napster.