Phil Wainewright

A new executive with an international breadth, the launch of a best practices campaign, and a renewed emphasis on reaching out to end-users were the dominant themes of the ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC)’s Global Members’ Meeting held in London yesterday. The Consortium’s founding board of 25 members was replaced by a new 44-strong board and […]

Online sales automation service Salesforce.Com announced closing another $35m in funding today, bringing total funding to $52m since the company was formed in March 1999. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company said it will use this newest round of funding to expand its product offering and grow operations domestically and abroad. Investors in the latest round […]

A how-to guide for ASPs and an award program to recognize model providers marked the beginning of a campaign to promote best practice launched by the ASP Industry Consortium today. The “Guide to the ASP Delivery Model” sets out to define the many components of the ASP model and to serve as a starting point […]

Xevo Monday (May 1st) launched the production version of its ASP service management infrastructure platform, ASP Workbench. Aimed at enterprise ASPs servicing thousands of users, the product streamlines and automates the provisioning, metering, and packaging of complex applications. Marlboro Mass.-based startup Xevo Corp. initially launched the product in a pilot version last September (see related […]

UK-based enterprise ASP Aspective has closed $60m funding from blue-chip investment group Investcorp, it will reveal tomorrow. The investment is one of the largest to date for a pureplay enterprise ASP startup, and catapults the Broadvision and Siebel specialist into the premier league of ASPs worldwide. “It’s going to be a very exciting ride for […]

Pioneering ASP Corio took the first formal step towards a Nasdaq listing when it filed registration papers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed IPO. It is believed to be aiming to raise at least $50m in the offering, which is to be underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Robertson […]

Toolwire claims it has dramatically cut the cost of designing and making new communications, computer, networking and other electronics products with the launch of its Design Chain Management (DCM) Network yesterday. The DCM Network is a set of online services for designing, building and sourcing electronics components. It includes online applications for designing custom chips […]

Dutch ASP EC-Gate has teamed with telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson and telecoms carrier Telfort to add wireless capability to its hosted vertical marketplace solution. In what it described as the first global launch of a wireless ASP, EC-Gate made the announcement simultaneously today at conferences in Holland, Brazil and Canada. The first live implementation of […]