Kevin Newcomb

The ASP Industry Consortium today unveiled its newly retooled Web site, designed to help promote end-user adoption by more clearly presenting the ASP value proposition to customers around the world. The ASPIC Web site contains information to help explain the ASP computing model. But the site also will help present the ASP story in real-life […]

Chell Acquisition Corp., a private company owned by ASP industry veteran Cameron Chell, chairman and CEO of Chell Group Corp. , has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Canadian IT systems integrator Logicorp. The purchase price for Logicorp will be $8.0 million, to be paid in a combination […]

Inktomi Corp. today unveiled several new infrastructure software applications for global enterprises and service providers, with a new suite of offerings for content publishing, distribution, retrieval, management and security. “We’re taking our leading-edge technology and applying it directly to applications,” Peter Galvin, VP and general manager, Enterprise Solutions, told InternetNews. “We’re giving people the ability […]

Private-label ASP TeleComputing ASA, (Oslo Stock Exchange: TCO) announced today that it has become the sixth company worldwide to achieve Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status for Hosting and Application Services. In October 2000, European ASPs Equant and NetStore were the first to be certified in the European phase of Microsoft’s global ASP Certification Program for […]

EDS and Sun Microsystems Inc. today unveiled a joint “Continuum of Services” program, expected to generate $3 billion in sales over the next five years. The program will offer customers an array of complementary, on-demand IT offerings, including web site management, data center outsourcing and ASP hosting services based on Sun’s platform. The companies expect […]

Australian ASP aggregator Peakhour has selected the XevoWorks service management automation solution from Marlboro, Mass.-based Infrastructure ISV Xevo Corp. to drive its international expansion plans. XevoWorks will play an essential role in helping Peakhour, a wholesaler of online solutions and services to Global 1000 companies and their SME-customers, roll out the next generation of its […]

Intranets.com, which abandoned its free service for an enhanced, subscription-based service in early June, has registered more than 100,000 users and 6,000 corporations and small businesses in less than 30 days. “Intranets.com has achieved the fastest and most efficient conversion from a free service to a paid professional business service that I’ve seen in the […]

Professional services ASP Portera on Tuesday (July 10) announced that it has become a Microsoft Great Plains solution developer partner, and has teamed with Great Plains ASP ManagedOps to deliver an integrated Portera/Microsoft Great Plains solution. “This is a clear example of what can happen when you listen to customers,” said Dan Taylor, CEO of […]

Hosted Web analysis service provider MyComputer.com today unveiled its new “cache-busting” technology in the SuperStats traffic monitoring and analytics software, designed to eliminate Web traffic undercounts resulting from cached Web pages. “Many Web sites significantly undercount their Web traffic numbers,” said Brett Error, chief technology officer of MyComputer.com. “MyComputer.com’s ‘cache-busting’ technology helps solve this problem, […]

The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) today released new guidelines designed to help federal government customers of ASPs navigate the terms and conditions of service level agreements (SLAs), the core documents of agreement between an ASP and a customer. “A recent survey conducted by ITAA found serious confusion by government purchasers over the use […]

Worldwide ASP spending is expected to increase from $3 billion in 2001 to roughly $16.1 billion by 2005, based on the latest study by Aberdeen Group. “Growth in the ASP industry will remain robust through 2005,” said David Wright, vice president of Aberdeen’s Private Equity Services Division. “Our data clearly shows that, both domestically and […]

Full-service ASP/AIP Interpath today announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte & Touche Outsourcing (DTO), a business unit of Deloitte & Touche LLP, to provide preconfigured technology solutions that incorporate DTO’s best practices, business process outsourcing and application outsourcing experience with Interpath’s secure managed applications hosting and delivery environment. “DTO’s alliance with Interpath targets enterprises that […]