ASP is a model that is providing businesses with an it cost-effective option. global companies, small and large, are taking this route for ease of implementation, and across industry, many enterprises are starting to embed the asp-style of service provision into their businesses, and seeing real advantages.

ags together with their IT partner already has a portfolio of applications, which it can offer to customers, or it can run applications chosen by customers. They use established software techniques (Citrix Metaframe) so that all the work runs on their host computers, but customers can connect in to the service from anywhere. They have developed their own specialised software to manage differing speeds of connection.

The company has “server farms” in Telford and Stoke and a fast link between them so that they have an extremely high level of resilience to failure. They use firewalls and military-strength encryption to keep the operation secure. Loads are balanced between servers, but this is invisible to customers who get a secure and resilient black-box service.