Dan Muse

In the ever-consolidating world of ASPs, you have buyers and sellers. ASP pioneer TeleComputing is definitely on the buying side of the equation. The ASP and application aggregator announced today that it is acquiring the assets of Commtouch Software’s hosted Microsoft Exchange messaging business, including 30 of its business customers using hosted messaging applications. TeleComputing […]

At this point in the development of the ASP market, you might assume service providers had the security thing down cold. Not so, according to a survey by IDC. In its report, “Delivering Software as a Service, Delivering a Sense of Security,” the Framingham, Mass.-based research company says that of 50 ASPs surveyed about 25 […]

ManagedOps, a Bedford, N.H.-based ASP wholesaler, announced today that it will offer its Managed Operations oursourcing service for Microsoft’s customer relationship management product, which was announced yesterday. Microsoft Customer Relationship Management will be available either late this year or early in 2003. A Microsoft spokeswoman told ASPnews that a beta version of the software, which […]

Trellix President and CEO Don Bulens says today’s announced deal to provide Web hosting services provider Interland with Web-based publishing tools isn’t his company’s biggest deal to date, but, “it has the potential to be.” Under terms of the agreement, the Concord, Mass.-based Trellix will license its Web site publishing platform on a private-label basis […]

Web-based conferencing and collaboration continues to gain in popularity as enterprises look for ways to trim travel expenses. In light of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, companies are particularly anxious to reduce air travel. With the growing adoption rates of Web conferencing services comes greater demands in terms […]

ASP pioneer TeleComputing today announced that its application provisioning and management platform TECOS integrates with and supports the Microsoft .NET Framework. Telecomputing, which is based in Oslo, Norway and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., provides private-label hosted business messaging, collaboration and productivity applications for service providers (SP). TECOS 3.0 is designed to enable ASPs, independent software vendors […]

Applicast, a subsidiary of full-service ASP Agilera, announced yesterday that it filed for Chapter 11 protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of SAP and Siebel Systems services was acquired by the Englewood, Colo.-based Agilera in December 2000 (see Applicast & Agilera to Merge. Applicast attributed the bankruptcy filing to the […]

Reaffirming its goal to reach profitability by September 2002, corporate expense management independent software vendor (ISV) and ASP Concur Technologies Inc., yesterday reported its financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2002 (which ended on December 31, 2001).

When Concur Technologies Inc. reported its fiscal year 2001 fourth quarter earnings in November, hosted applications accounted for 40 percent of its overall revenues (its licensed software made up the other 60 percent). The Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor is scheduled to announce earnings for its most recent quarter next Thursday and, based on a slew […]

According to market research firm The Aberdeen Group, Corio is the leading ASP for PeopleSoft enterprise software. In Corio: Experience and Expertise Alleviate Risk for PeopleSoft ASP Clients, which was released yesterday, The Aberdeen Group identifies Corio as the industry leader with 27 percent of the total ASP market share for PeopleSoft applications. Following closely […]

Totality, an application infrastructure management and managed service provider, announced yesterday that it has acquired specific assets of Breakaway Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based full service provider that filed for bankruptcy in September (see Breakaway Solutions Files Chapter 11). While Totality is also acquiring key technical personnel, the motivation for the transaction was adding new customers. “The […]

Infrastructure independent software vendor (ISV) The Progress Company (a business unit of Progress Software ) today announced that it is adding a suite of disaster recovery services to its ASPen managed services program. According to the company, the Progress Disaster Recovery services are the first specifically tailored for over 40,000 companies that use Progress-based business […]