Winstar adds ASP.Winstar Communications, Inc., a broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. company, announced that it has reached a agreement with Great Plains, a provider of e-business solutions, to host and distribute Great Plains' e-business applications. Through this alliance, Winstar adds to its growing portfolio of 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). ) offerings, which includes Web-based versions of Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. and Office software, for the small business marketplace. Winstar will also incorporate Great Plains applications into hosted offerings that target a variety of vertical industries, such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , hospitality, media and communications and others. Through the Great Plains eEnterprise and Dynamics solutions suites, Winstar will provide small business customers with a comprehensive set of network-enabled applications for financial services, distribution, enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. , project accounting, electronic commerce, human resource management, manufacturing, sales and marketing management, and customer service and support functions. Winstar will deliver these solutions utilizing its end-to-end broadband network and enterprise class data centers, and will offer these products via Winstar's extensive direct sales channels, Office.com and additional to-be-announced channels and partners. Under the terms of the agreement, Winstar and Great Plains will pursue joint sales, marketing and promotional programs. The agreement is the latest development in Winstar's ASP services program. The company will announce additional ASP offerings in the coming weeks. Winstar will provide all of these network-based applications as standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. offerings or as bundled services with other Winstar Web design and development, and phone services. |
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