ASPs in Session Gartner lined up its own analysts to present on a new track for ASPs in the Strategic Program sessions. Nevertheless, what remained obvious by the low turnout at ASP events was the slow growth curve of the model. Mike Graul, senior VP of ASP product line management at Infinium, offered case studies as proof positive that the model does indeed work in a natural evolution from client-server to collaboration. Dani Shomrom, VP of Digital Fuel Technologies provided an overview on ASP performance evaluators so far on the other side of hype that she neglected to mention what her company does. The ASP model is about trust.
Many players are afraid.
They create SLAs and when things go wrong, they have to go through a haystack to find the person accountable. Yet, Apfel insisted that Gartner remains bullish on the ASP model in the long term. We are nearly two years away from applications actually being delivered through the ASP model. Whether or not that assessment is accurate, the message could be helpful in terms of helping floundering industry players to wipe the egg off their face. Nonetheless, he didn't neglect to lower the sword into the wound.