Specialized Services Drive Next-Generation ASP Industry; Aberdeen Report Examines the Rapidly Growing and Evolving ASP Industry.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 In a report released today, Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. , an IT consulting and market strategy firm, states that one of the most significant trends in the application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) industry is the formation of Internet Business Service Providers (iBSPs), which focus on specific markets and functionalities as well as stress services and applications. The report, entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "The Evolution of a Revolution: The State of the ASP Industry," examines this diverse and rapidly growing industry, its offerings and suppliers, and the business contexts in which it operates. "IT users are fed up with software complexity, expensive and lengthy deployments, incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. productivity gains, and non-stop technology change," says report author Lew Hollerbach. "They are increasingly shifting away from locally hosted computing computing - computer and toward a new environment in which third parties will eventually assume most, if not all, of the responsibilities for providing IT solutions." "The Evolution of a Revolution: The State of the ASP Industry" projects that iBSPs will be at the forefront of the broad ASP industry. "The iBSP is a new member of the Internet ecosystem," continues Hollerbach, "but it will become a key catalyst in the transformation of software. Software, currently a stand-alone product, will become just one of many key components in a broader service offering." For more information about "The Evolution of a Revolution: The State of the ASP Industry," visit www.aberdeen.com or call (800) 577-7891 (East Coast) or (650) 330-3124 (West Coast). About Aberdeen Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group provides IT consulting and market strategy advice to the IT supplier community. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen focuses on answering clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. and across the product life cycle. Headquartered in Boston, MA, Aberdeen Group has offices in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , CA, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com. |
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