Asite and OpSource Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Software-as-a-Service Platform for the International Construction Industry.Scalability and Global Reach Key to Meeting Needs of the UK's Leading SaaS Provider for Construction IT SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- OpSource[TM], the leader in Web operations Web operations is a domain of expertise within IT systems management that involves the deployment, operation, maintenance, tuning, and repair of web-based applications. With the rise of web technologies since mid-1995, specialists have emerged that understand the complexities of , today announced a strategic partnership with Asite Solutions, the provider of the leading global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for the construction industry. Asite will use OpSource On-Demand[TM] to support the delivery of their SaaS platform A SaaS Platform is a computer program or collection of more than one computer program that acts as a host to applications that reside on it. The platform manages underlying computer hardware and software resources and uses those resources to endow its hosted applications with to an increasingly global audience. Asite joins a growing list of international companies selecting OpSource as their Web operations provider. Asite delivers flexible construction IT solutions, including tools for collaboration, trading and sourcing for use by construction companies at every point in the supply chain. With its customers requiring an increasing amount of data storage, and with the company expanding geographically in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the USA, Asite needed a company that could manage and provide dynamic scalability for its SaaS infrastructure. Asite selected OpSource for the scalability, reliability and 100 percent uptime necessary to deploy the company's SaaS application to its growing customer base. Nathan Doughty dough·ty adj. dough·ti·er, dough·ti·est Marked by stouthearted courage; brave. [Middle English, from Old English dohtig; see dheugh- in Indo-European roots. , COO of Asite, said, "Our relationship with OpSource pairs like-minded companies seeking to push the boundaries of innovation for SaaS application delivery and cloud computing (1) Running applications in or from network servers. Computing "in the cloud" may refer to a company's own network, but often refers to the Internet and the use of Web browser-based or rich client applications. , or 'hardware-as-a-service' infrastructure delivery. By partnering with OpSource, we can rapidly expand our SaaS platform to meet our global demand and focus more than ever on delivering innovation and the best possible customer experience." Treb Ryan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of OpSource, said, "Asite was developing SaaS solutions even before they were being called SaaS. Selecting OpSource On-Demand will enable them to meet the demands of their client base as it grows - both geographically and in terms of the amount of data they work with - while also providing intercontinental redundancy and disaster recovery. We're honored to have earned Asite's trust as its Web operations provider." About OpSource On-Demand A comprehensive, award-winning Web operations solution, OpSource On-Demand enables Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web companies to quickly and securely deliver their applications and services over the Web to consumers and businesses alike. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, it includes the application management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success. OpSource On-Demand includes: Technical Operations * Best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network infrastructure * World-class data center facilities * Redundant carrier class load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them architecture * In-depth 24x7 monitoring, security, and management procedures backed by SAS-70 Type II audits * Built-in high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solutions from simple clustering to wide-area Disaster Recovery Application Operations Application Operations * Data management * Performance management, including multipoint user-experience monitoring * Application Roll Out and Change Management * Application optimization * Compliant infrastructure, processes and procedures including: SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. 70 Type II audited, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, and PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Security procedures from the PCI Security Standards Council for merchants that accept credit cards online. compliance and salesforce.com and WebEx certifications Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets * OpSource Billing[TM] - An end-to-end subscription management, metering and payment stand-alone solution, or as part of OpSource On-Demand * OpSource Connect[TM] - A Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. infrastructure and integration toolset, for application integration in the "Cloud" and behind the corporate fire-wall * OpSource End-User Support[TM] - 24x7 customer branded end-user support * OpSource Analytics[TM] - A real-time application and customer usage information, and health of business analysis and reporting tool About OpSource OpSource[TM] delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand[TM], the leading Web operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. Further, by using OpSource Connect[TM] companies can leverage Web services such as OpSource Billing[TM], OpSource Analytics[TM] and OpSource End-User Support[TM] and integrate their applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application. OpSource is the only company to offer Success-Based Pricing(SM), a unit-based pricing model that allows businesses to begin with a modest minimum commitment and scale expenses as revenues increase. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net. OpSource, OpSource On-Demand and the OpSource logo are trademarks of OpSource, Inc. Success-Based Pricing is a service mark of OpSource, Inc. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are protected by their respective owners. About Asite ABOS ABOS American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Asite is a global leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for the construction and property industries, offering proven web-based software for sourcing, tendering, design collaboration, 3D and BIM BIM Building Information Modeling BIM Building Information Model BIM Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) BIM Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer (Belgium) BIM Bharathidasan Institute of Management Modelling, 3D Simulation, catalogue hosting and procurement. Asite delivers their platform to more than 40,000 users supporting project delivery in every continent of the world. Asite is and continues to be the only SaaS vendor approved by the UK government via an OGC OGC Office of Government Commerce (UK government) OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Office of the General Counsel OGC Open GIS Consortium, Inc. Framework agreement classified by the National Audit Office in the Top 10 frameworks for delivering real value to UK government. Asite recently demonstrated its innovative technology by hosting the first ever Build London Live virtual design event using Asite's cBIM technology to deliver real time online collaboration via the internet around building information models. More than 350 participants from teams representing four continents competed in a two day virtual design competition focusing on the virtual redevelopment of an East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. waterside site. Asite's head office is in the City of London. For more information about the suite of services provided by Asite and for more information about the Asite Build London Live event, visit our website: www.asite.com. |
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