With this in mind, every agency needs to consider using an Application Service Provider to rent its management system. But that doesn't mean the ASP model will be the right approach for every agency. Let's look at some the advantages and disadvantages. Advantages There are some significant advantages to an ASP model. They are good in some areas, and not so good in others.
Technology is one area of management that continues to cause many agency owners great frustration.
A frequent comment is that they seem to have to learn more about technical things than they ever wanted to know. The ASP model allows the agency owner to pass these management headaches on to someone else. Reliable computing Every agency owner knows that the agency needs good procedures for backing up the data and performing normal maintenance tasks to keep the computing resources operating at peak efficiency. Generally, though, what the agency owner knows the agency needs to do and what actually is done are not the same. We recently received an e-mail from an agency friend who was asking us if we knew of a way to recover deleted network files because the agency had accidentally deleted a directory of files.