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Business Intelligence Gears Up With Solution Package

As an application service provider for municipal authorities, KIVBF had to make substantial improvements to the performance of its SAP NetWeaver BW, because speedy analysis of data from the warehouse is increasingly important to customers. The administrative cost of maintaining the data warehouse was too great. An individual data cube...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP AG, Web Services, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Middleware, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Web Hosting, Software, Internet, Data Management

Case studies 2009-05-01

nugg.ad Selects NeuStar's UltraDNS Services

nugg.ad is a German company based in Berlin that provides an Application Service Provider ASP solution for predictive behavioral targeting. With their ever-increasing traffic figures and presence at several major Internet sites throughout Europe, it is imperative that their infrastructure be robust and highly scalable, and that they are able...

Tags: UltraDNS, NeuStar Inc., Nugg.ad, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, Business Services, Domain Names, It Services, Internet

Case studies 2008-08-26

RTA Optimises Bandwidth With Packeteer

The Roads and Transport Authority RTA has a number of critical public facing applications (e-services). It needed a solution that would proactively monitor the network/application performance and enable its RTA's network architects and management to shape the network traffic accordingly. Packeteer as a company filled all these requirements and the...

Tags: Bandwidth, Packeteer, Provisioning, Application Management, FVC, RTA, PacketShaper 7500, It Services, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Internet

Case studies 2008-08-03

ACS Technology Platform: Comparison of "Behind-the-Firewall" Vs. Hosted Learning Solutions

Web-based learning, as well as online access to learning administration and reporting services, requires a high-performance, scalable, and reliable platform to meet baseline user requirements. Users (learners, managers, and administrators) have come to expect a quality experience with any technology enabled learning solution and generally will reject slow or unreliable...

Tags: Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Solution, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Workforce Management, Leadership, Internet, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2008-06-20

E-Service Vehicle Registration Certificate Process Cut From 15 Days to Three Days

The Dutch government's Department of Road Transport RDW aims to bring seamless, electronic services to citizens and businesses, and in 2007 won Computable Magazine's Innovation Award. With the help of Microsoft Services, the RDW built an electronic services framework using Microsoft Commerce Server 2007. Using this, it developed e-services, which...

Tags: Online Application, e-Service, Microsoft Corp., Application Service Providers (ASPs), Portals, Internet

Case studies 2008-06-01

Financial Application Service Provider Improves Security and Network Performance With a Single, Integrated Solution From F5

FMR specializes in providing software and services for the financial services market in Israel. The company wanted to maintain tight security for sensitive financial data and improve network management to deliver improved service for clients. The challenge was to increase system usage and provide remote network access to hosted applications....

Tags: Security, Financial, F5 Networks Inc., Network, Financial Application, FMR, Financial Accounting, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Networking, Finance, Internet

Case studies 2008-05-19

Solution Helps Government Departments Launch E-Services in Minimal Time

A government organization in the Middle East needed to deploy e-services and had a contract with a vendor to do so. However, because of a long project timeline, many departments decided to instead use a solution from Avansys Infotech. Avansys helped 22 departments implement e-services approximately 75 percent more quickly...

Tags: e-Service, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Internet

Case studies 2008-04-08

Application Service Provider (ASP-Co) Uses VSS Distributed Taps to Meet PCI Compliance Mandates

ASP-Co is an US based application service provider with an internationally distributed user population and a broad presence that spans 7 data centers in 4 countries. In order for a network monitoring infrastructure to be useful to ASP-Co, both the network and security teams require total network visibility which operationally...

Tags: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Network, PCI, ASP-Co, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Networking, Internet

Case studies 2008-01-11

Forex Fox .107 (Windows)

Forex Fox is an extension for Firefox that displays currency exchange rates in your status bar. Features include: Displays major currencies pairs; Only display the pairs that you want; Updates data at user defined intervals; And links to FX Extensions with additional information about fx rates and the fx markets....

Tags: Pair, Forex Fox, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Microsoft Windows, Free Trade, Web Browsers, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2007-09-22

Elite Expert Trader 1 (Windows)

Elite Expert Trader is a software plug-in for the Meta Trader software platform. It includes a portfolio of automated trading systems which have been in development and trading for years. All the strategies include options that users can adjust the lot size, risk factors, and more. It is possible to...

Tags: Software, Trader, Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Windows, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Internet, Management

Software downloads 2007-05-30

Cressida Associates and PePLink Balance 300 Creates Unparalleled Network Resiliency

As a networking servicing company, Cressida Associates has remained a sturdy force within the apparel and manufacturing industry since its inception in 1989. Numerous clients utilize both their Application Service Provider ASP and Web hosting services which soon prompted Cressida Associates onto a quest in a new realm of networking...

Tags: Network, Application Service Provider, Service Provider, PePLink, Cressida, Web Hosting, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Business Services, Internet

Case studies 2007-03-09

Government Interoperability: Enabling the Delivery of E-Services

This paper illustrates the value of interoperability in the delivery of Government e-services: Government-to-Government, business-to-Government and citizen-to-Government. It describes the many issues involved in achieving successful interoperability programs - together with the tools, technologies and standards that help make this possible. Government systems are generally purchased on a solution-by-solution basis,...

Tags: Interoperability, e-Service, Government System, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Internet

White papers 2005-04-01

Designing a Better Web Portal for Digital Government: A Web-Mining Based Approach

This paper addresses an important research area in digital government development: intelligent design of digital government Web portals, a primary means of realizing the core function of digital government - online government service delivery. In particular, the paper proposes and studies the eservice selection problem and introduce a web-mining based...

Tags: e-Service, Web Portal, University Of Utah, Government, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Portals, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet

White papers 2005-03-22

Top of the Web: User Satisfaction and Usage Survey of eGovernment Services

E-government and public e-services have been on the international agenda for several years now, but how far has Europe progressed when it comes to the usage of public e-services? E-services have been implemented or launched by all EU countries, and the range of initiatives is continually developing. But there are...

Tags: Web, e-Service, Survey, European Union, Application Service Providers (ASPs), E-government, Internet, Government

White papers 2004-12-01

SAP Consulting Helps French Media Company Build Service-Oriented Media Solutions

When French media company Manchette Publicite decided to pioneer innovative new Web services for the media industry, it chose the Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint from SAP as its new IT foundation. The solution has helped reduce the cost of selling advertising by 50% and has won rapid approval from customers....

Tags: SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Cloud Computing, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet

Case studies

The "Service" Aspect of an ASP

The Internet and ever-increasing bandwidth have spawned a new method of delivering software functionality -- the application service provider ASP model. An ASP creatively combines aspects of software packages, outsourcing and Internet delivery, allowing customers to receive all of the benefits of using a software application without the associated burdens...

Tags: Software, Microsoft ASP, Application Service Provider, Service Provider, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Tools & Techniques, Business Services, Internet, Management

White papers

Nokia Case Study: conVISUAL

conVISUAL became the first wireless application service provider to present live MMS applications at the UMTS Congress. The company works with Nokia Networks and Nokia Mobile Phones to make sure the MMB's platform development and resulting messages work well with all Nokia handsets. Network operators and service providers use the...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Business Services, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Networking, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet

Case studies

MPLS-IPSEC Based VPN Solution for an Application Service Provider

The client is a large Japan based application service provider offering VPN services to a large number of customers. Client wanted to re-route VPN traffic via another IPSec tunnel in case the primary link fails. They wanted a smooth failover so that it will appear very transparent to the end...

Tags: Wipro Technologies, Application Service Provider, VPNs, IPSec, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Network Security, Web Hosting, Networking, Telecommunications, Security, Internet

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Push, Inc. Uses Trend Micro ScanMail to Maintain Quality of Service

Push, Inc. is an Application Service Provider ASP in Santa Barbara, California. It provides Customer Relationship Management and email services to about 20 mid-market companies. Because Push is an ASP, its servers are physically inaccessible to users. The company's primary source of infection is electronic mail. "Melissa, 'I Love You,'...

Tags: QoS, Trend Micro Inc., Application Service Provider, E-mail, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, Business Services, Online Communications, Internet

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Ministry of Justice Takes e-Government to the Next Level With Web Services

Many governments today implement government-to-government (G2G) and government-to-employee (G2E) solutions to help improve operational efficiencies within or between agencies. The Austrian Ministry of Justice faced the challenge of connecting multiple application service providers to proprietary government databases to improve public online access to judicial records. By partnering with the BundesRechen-Zentrum...

Tags: Web, Web Service, IBM Corp., E-government, Cloud Computing, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Services, Government, Web Hosting, Channel Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

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