Outsourcing
Service Provider Strategy: Proven Secrets for xSPs
Offers a complete framework for success as an ASP, ISP, or WASP. Presents specific best practices for identifying revenue opportunities.
Asp Configuration Handbook : Application Service Provider
This book offers guidance for Internet Service Provides making the leap to providing outsource services like software applications and electronic commerce solutions. It describes ISP market conditions and the transition process. Advice is offered concerning network services design, the deployment of performance enhancement products, content delivery, security, and infrastructure. Contributors are executives, software architects, and systems engineers for telecommunications companies.
U.S. Application Service Provider Forecast, 2002-2006: A Vertical View (PDF download)
One of the challenges of playing in the ASP market is its highly fragmented customer base. Particularly when budgets are being closely guarded, ASPs are realizing that a targeted effort is more effective than a gunshot explosion. Where should they focus their energies and sales efforts? In 2001, services companies spent approximately $245 million on ASP services, more than any other market. In addition, discrete manufacturers, despite a troubling year, spent $221 million on ASP services, making them the second-largest market for vendors. Which vertical markets are expected to continue spending on ASP services over the next five years? What are the characteristics of markets that are ripe for outsourcing? This bulletin presents the U.S. ASP market by 18 vertical markets to help ASPs prioritize their sales efforts and develop their customer base.
U.S. Application Service Provider Channels Forecast, 2002-2006: Are ASPs Positioned to Capture Pent-Up Demand? (PDF download)
This bulletin presents IDC estimates regarding the size and composition of the U.S. ASP market from the perspective of the sales channels used to deliver application services to the market. In particular, this bulletin details the following: · The amount of 2001 U.S. ASP spending derived through indirect channels · The mix of indirect channels that are predominant in the ASP industry today · An outlook for the future of indirect channel approaches in the U.S. ASP market This bulletin focuses on the channels through which ASP services are sold (ASP sell- through channels). Subsequent IDC research will focus on the amount of software license that is associated with the ASP channel.
U.S. Application Service Provider Forecast, 2002-2006 (PDF download)
digiMine - Application Service Provider of CRM-Centric Analytic Applications: Mining the Data Asset (PDF download)
This document discusses how organizations can take advantage of the vast amount of data generated daily through their interactions with customers and visitors.
Selecting an Application Service Provider (PDF download)
Application service providers (ASPs) claim to deliver complete solutions at low prices, but many providers distort their capabilities to oversell immature offerings. The industry in Europe is new and has yet to prove, or even understand, its value proposition.
Application Service Providers (ASPs): A Manager's Guide
Ground-breaking guidebook invaluable for short-listing, evaluating, and selecting the best ASP match for your company's business and IT requirements. Explains the components of the 'virtual' ASP technology platform, and differentiates between the various types of ASPs.
Service Providers ASPs, ISPs, MSPs, NSPs, and WSPs
A strategic guide to mastering service provider relationships. Author clearly show you how to develop the processes and hire the necessary people to create successful service provider partnerships. Most importantly, they explain the different service providers that you can choose for your business.
Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing
IT and the East
IT And the East: How China And India Are Altering the Future of Technology And Innovation
Western high-tech firms are increasingly sourcing their products' assembly from India and China and the innovation that drives those products. Meanwhile, indigenous Indian and Chinese companies are creating intellectual property and innovations that will compete with those same Western companies.
In IT and the East, James M. Popkin and Partha Iyengar examine the vital questions these developments raise: What's the long-term impact of high-tech outsourcing? How will innovation be managed in the future? Can Western firms compete in Asian markets while protecting key intellectual property? Will the innovation engine inexorably shift east? What would such a shift mean for Western countries currently driving innovation?
