Dan Muse

Apptix, a private-label service provider, today announced its Revenue Assurance Services (RAS) program, which the Sterling, Va.-based company says is designed to help network service providers sell and market hosted Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server messaging and collaboration services.. Apptix, which spun out of ASP pioneer TeleComputing in April provides turnkey messaging, communications and collaboration solutions […]

Trellix Corp.’s goal is to put its Web-site publishing system in front of the country’s 21 million small businesses, but it knows better than to try to reach this fragmented group on its own. Instead the Concord, Mass.-based company has made a name for itself in the often-nameless private-label ASP market. Today Trellix announced version […]

“The Internet is not a destination. It’s a way to do business,” says Seth Brenzel, director of marketing at Atomz, a San Francisco-based ASP that offers Web site search and content management services. To help Web sites generate the results businesses are searching for, Atomz today announced Atomz Promote, a Web-native service that integrates Atomz […]

Given the taste of success Web-native ASPs in general and sales force automation (SFA) ASPs in particular have enjoyed in the last year, it’s no surprise that companies like Salesnet are hungry for a bigger piece of the pie. Like its closest competitors, Salesnet wants to tap deeper into the enterprise market — a market […]

It’s hard to imagine that in corporate America, where greed is good, employers would allow $10 billion dollars of unclaimed tax credits to remain on the table each year. But that’s exactly what happens, according Wayne C. Neale, vice president of marketing at ITax Group Inc, an ASP and professional services firm that specializes in […]

Billing has become more than a way to simply get paid. Service providers are constantly challenged to come up with new pricing strategies to help increase revenue, lower costs and improve customer service. To manage this complexity of service offerings, many have turned to outsourced billing services such as those offered by MetraTech. The Waltham, […]

Many ASPs that sell Web-native applications have been around since the early days of the ASP industry. It looks like their patience — and software architecture — is finally paying off. Spending on Web-native ASP services in the U.S. is expected to grow from $200 million in 2001 to over $1.5 billion by 2006, according […]

Iona, an infrastructure software vendor , and Javelin Technologies Inc., a company that specializes in electronic trading technology, today announced an agreement to provide a Web services-based framework that supports the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol. The companies described the joint software and services bundle as the first Web services integration solution to provide the […]

If information is power, Web analytics software is the most powerful tool a company can buy — or perhaps more accurately, it seems, the most powerful tool a company can subscribe to. ASPs that offer hosted Web analytics services are well-positioned to provide that power in the future, according to a report released today by […]

Mergers and acquisitions have been the trend in the ASP market and that strategy seems to be spreading to the managed service provider (MSP) sector as well. Avasta, a San Francisco-based provider of enterprise application management services, today announced that it will merge with SiteROCK, an Emeryville, Calif.-based MSP. Under terms of the agreement, Avasta […]

For customer relationship management (CRM) software to be effective, salespeople have to use it. Sounds simple enough. However, when it comes to CRM software there has been “a lack of customer satisfaction,” said Keith Raffel, chairman and founder of Upshot Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based ASP that provides Web-native CRM software. Raffel told ASPnews that […]

The market for application server software platform products will double to nearly $4.4 billion by 2006, according to market research firm IDC. Based on current market-share figures reported by both IDC and Gartner/Dataquest about half of that revenue will go to BEA Systems and IBM. Framingham, Mass-based IDC reports that the market didn’t show the […]