Dan Muse

Enterprise ASP Corio (Nasdaq: CRIO) today announced that it has completed an 18-week migration project for Hitachi America, upgrading the electronics company’s deployment of SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to Release 4.6. The San Carlos, Calif.-based Corio also announced that it has migrated the application to its data centers. The transition was accomplished […]

You can use a lot of words to describe Microsoft: Monopolistic? Maybe. Manipulative? Perhaps. Educational? At times. No matter what words you choose, you have to give Microsoft credit. When it wants to be player in a market, it doesn’t hold back. In the case of planting a flag in the ASP ground, it’s attacking […]

Citrix Systems continues to buck the disappointing-earnings trend, reporting second-quarter net revenue of $147.3 million, up 38.8 percent from Q2 last year ($106.1 million). The company’s earnings are also up 10.9 percent over Q1’s $132.8 revenue. The application server software company surprised analysts by reporting earnings per share of $0.19. Many analysts expected Citrix per-share […]

eLabor announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop its workforce management software suite on the .NET platform. The Camarillo, Calif.-based eLabor offers products in four areas: recruitment management, labor management, contractor management and project management.

Paula Hunter is the new chairmman of the Application Service Provider Industry Consortium (ASPIC), the industry association announced today. In accepting the position, Hunter noted that the next year will be of “extreme importance” to the still-fledgling ASP industry. Hunter, chief market strategist for Marlborough, Mass.-based Xevo Corp., succeeds Traver Gruen-Kennedy, who served as chairman […]

Adding credence to the expression “everything old is new again,” At Your eService has announced partnerships with two major computer store chains to offer Web-based applications in a box. Beginning June 4, the Campbell Calif-based publisher of Web-based applications and services will make 20 hosted software products available through computer retailers Micro Center and Frye’s […]

The majority of independent software vendors (ISVs) either offer or soon will offer software as a service (SaaS), according to a survey released today by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Nearly half (49 percent) of the ISVs surveyed said they currently deliver products in the SaaS model. And more than a third (39 […]

San Jose, Calif-based Eccord Systems today announced a framework designed to provide organization-wide service level management (SLM). The framework, which the company describes as “service level intelligence” is designed to equip service providers with a real-time view of service level performance across all networks, applications and systems. Eccord also announced today Eccord Enterprise, the latest […]

Saying that the projected rapid growth of the ASP market did not materialize, FutureLink NASDAQ: FTRL president and CEO Howard E. Taylor reported that the Lake Forest-based Calif.-based company suffered a fourth quarter net loss of $205.1 million ($2.92 per share) on revenue on $34.1 million. Taylor said FutureLink was facing the “hard reality of […]

Consumer-focused ASP cMeRun Corp. (OTCBB:CMER) announced Tuesday (Feb 13) that it has reached a strategic alliance with ASP enabler ApplicationStation under which it will outsource a significant part of its operating infrastructure to the Bellingham, WA-based company. “The synergies between the two organizations in terms of both people and the complementary technologies is a natural […]