Research & Insight

Monthly archives: November, 2000

Accounting for Results

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

At first blush, Cornell Companies, Inc. appears to be just one among several private corporations whose enterprises generate revenue by building and operating prisons. Beyond the momentary glance, though, Cornell contrasts sharply with its competitors. Just like the background and professional experience of its Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Jenkins, Cornell operates in all three segments of the corrections industry…(outsourcing)

ASP Makes Sure You’ve Got Mail

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

When midnight hits on December 31, Netizens will have sent 2.2 trillion email messages. That’s because 97 percent of Internet users correspond by email, according to IDC. Back in 1998, a long time ago measuring by Web time, U.S. citizens sent seven email messages to every letter that required first class postage, according to Nua. The number has to be bigger today, given the runaway popularity of email by wireless phone, personal digital assistants and Blackberries in addition to the old-fashioned way of using your computer. (outsourcing)

How to Select an ASP Supplier

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

How to Select an ASP Supplier… The path a buyer should take in selecting an ASP depends on the buyer’s intent for use of the outsourced application. Adam Braunstein, Senior Research Analyst with the Robert Frances Group, explains that the buyer could use an ASP to host a full-blown integrated application set, or it could use an ASP as an automation tool for a simple application that doesn’t need to pull information from external systems. Despite the intended use of the application, Braunstein, suggests there are crucial characteristics to seek in an ASP supplier.

Contracting With ASP’s What’s the Customer to Do?

George Kimball

Application service providers (ASP’s) promise to make all this go away. Rather than pay large license fees and hire swarms of consultants, companies may rent the software, or buy applications by the drink, paying so much per user, per month. Applications will be delivered to the desktop, over the Internet. Just pay the money, and someone else will buy, install, connect and configure everything. The allure is plain, and has aroused interest in the marketplace, and from service providers, including well-financed startups, as well as such stalwarts as Intel and Oracle. The appeal is especially strong to new and smaller companies, who can adopt standard functions from popular packages more easily than larger, long-established organizations.

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