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How Outsourcing Email Management Helps Financial Services Companies
Email has become a ubiquitous form of business communication. Financial services firms have to protect the security of these communications because of the sensitive data they contain. Outsourcing email management is the answer.
ASP Fills eCommerce Need for Dental Manufacturer
Sterngold, a dental products manufacturer, wanted to sell its good on the Internet. It outsourced the process to speed up its appearance on the Net. Today its Web site brings in $1.2 million a year.
ASP Makes Sure Software Downloads Don't Go to Terrorists
US trade rules won't allow a Cuban cigar on American soil. The same rules apply to software downloads; companies can't sell software to Cuban buyers either. Penalties are in the six figures and there's a possibility of jail time too. Trade Beam's software makes sure companies only do business with approved buyers.
Thinking Out of the Box for 5THink Creates New Business for ASP
Crown Peak turned its process on its head to solve a problem for a new client. The result: a whole new line of business. Read how suppliers can expand their business by asking the question: Where else will it work?
Defining the Role of the Technology Lawyer
Here's why you need a technology lawyer when you do your next outsourcing deal. Kevin Colangelo of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel explains why your attorney needs to understand server configurations as well as contract law.
Small to Mid-Sized Businesses Turn to ASPs; Larger Enterprises Follow Their Lead
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the demise of ASPs has been greatly exaggerated. They are experiencing a remarkable resurgence, as enterprises small and large embrace their offerings. And one ASP, salesforce.com, just went public with the highest first-day price rise so far this year.
Outsourcing an Intranet Builds Real Value for RealtorT
Residential Realtor Keller Williams® is in a hyper growth mode. It wanted to attract young brokers, who expect cutting edge technology. The broker outsourced an intranet, which acted as a magnet and made the document-driven transactions easier.
Utility Computing's Blind Spot
IT spending finally picked up and the utility model of pay-as-needed became firmly established in 2003. The surviving ASPs rose like a phoenix. Buyers focused on cost. They also need to consider the strategic value of IT outsourcing.
ASP Provides New Blueprint for Home Builder's Public Relations
How do you prove your department is doing strategic work? The public relations department of home builder Pulte was able to improve its performance and prove its importance after outsourcing its PR software to an ASP.
ASP Data IT Outsourcer Meridian Keeps Hospitals In the Pink and Out of the Red
A California hospital receives its payments by a capitation system which is not based on usage. Hospitals have to get the numbers right. So the hospital outsourced its data management to keep the red ink from flowing.
ASP Gets High Marks in Managing Student Housing
Outsourcing is revolutionizing an 1892 process at the University of Utah. Finding a roommate used to be a trying experience for college students. Now ASP technology is allowing them to select roommates online long before classes start.
Aberdeen Group: Outsourcing CRM to ASPs to Overtake Licensed Software by 2006
Aberdeen reports ASPs specializing in CRM will enjoy a growth rate of 84 percent in the next 36 months. The preferred way to outsource is now hosted applications.
CRM Outsourcer Is Just the Ticket For CARFAX
How do you handle 12,000 Web queries a month? Used car company CARFAX found an ASP put the solution in high gear, including a 50 percent reduction in service-related emails.
Outsourced ASP/VMI Platform Appeals to Chicago Rawhide's Manufacturing Clients
A manufacturing company faced an operational challenge: finding the best way to manage inventory and delivery of vital goods on time to its manufacturing clients throughout the world. An ASP solution worked so well it now is a major selling point.
Outsourcing Email Delivery Drives Golfbargains.com to the Green in One Shot
With spam clogging mailboxes and enraging its recipients, an online golf retailer outsourced to make sure its email marketing got through. It permission-based list grew from 8,000 to 100,000 in 24 months.
Outsourcing Boosts Revenues 60 Percent in Six Months
Revenues at Verifications enjoyed a 60 percent increase in just six months after outsourcing its sales force automation.
The Trust Factor: Surebridge's Key to a Successful Outsourcing Relationship with Hill, Holliday
Hill Holliday, a marketing firm, wanted to outsource its employee time management. It liked the ASP solution. But first it had to make sure the provider it selected had financial stability.
What Do You Do When Your Applications Support Provider Goes Under?
Here's an outsourcing nightmare: Your applications support provider declares bankruptcy as you're trying to prepare your year-end financials. Read how one buyer handled the situation. The end result: a new outsourcing relationship with even greater value.
ASPs Face a Changing Market: Evolution, Consolidation Shape 2003 - and Beyond
A young industry -- long accustomed to evolving -- will continue to experience Darwinism. One new wrinkle: buyers are now asking their software vendors to host their own products.
Outsourcing Takes the Mystery Out of Web Content Management
Your Web site requires massive updates, often several times a day. This includes time sensitive information that remains online just a few hours. Who ya gonna call? An outsourcer.
Outsourcing Eliminates
ERP Headaches
Electroglas was using 20-year old IT solutions. Enterprise-wide software
like SAP was the solution to upgrade. An ASP with a deep commitment to
SAP made the transition seamless.
Outsourcing Makes Virtual
Management Real: ASP is Ideal Solution for Marketing Services:
In 2001, a year that many dotcoms and other technology-related companies
suffered hard times, Portera enjoyed 125 percent revenue growth with 121
new deals. Read how this ASP, which provides professional services automation,
is not only surviving, but thriving.
ASP and ERP: A Great Fit:
Having doubled its size in one year, Rural Cellular Corporation found
it had outgrown its human resources and financial services applications.
Outsourcing its hosting and applications to an ASP solved the problem.
Outsourcing Plows Through
Resumes For Growing Businesses Snowed Under by Emails: Growing
businesses are flooded with resumes. Outsourcing recruiting services to
an ASP reduces costs and saves time, eliminating a painstaking manual
process for corporate recruitment departments.
Rx for Secure Patient Data
Collection
Outsourcing patient data must satisfy a hospital's stringent security
requirements. One ASP has developed a prescription for protecting patient
data on the Web.
Back-office
Outsourcing Makes Rapid Growth Possible
Sunrise Assisted Living planned to open 200 new facilities a year. Outsourcing
was the only way to handle its back-office activities with such rapid
growth.
Gung-Ho
for More Than Vanilla
A semifinalist nomination for the 2002 Editor's Choice Awards. What's
a company to do when it has the business but not the resources to handle
it? Here's the story of a deal that looked impossible at first...until
it was outsourced to an ASP. A happy tax time fable.
ASP Helps Hanover Direct
Track Traffic
Consumers abandon their online shopping carts with maddening frequency.
Coremetrics can tell you why.
A Healthy Prognosis for Medical ASPs
A variety of trends have coalesced to create a surge of interest in ASPs
dedicated to health care.
ASP Adds BPO Offerings for
Vertical Markets
The recipe for success for a BPO is applying technology to a business
process.
Combining Computer Codes
With IRS Code
reSOURCE Partner associates (rSP), an ASP, specializes in both the technical
and the business side of applications, provides complete application hosting,
application management and business process outsourcing.
Doing IT Right in Sydney
Craig Curtin named his new ASP company Do IT Right, the moniker had a
double meaning. IT is an abbreviation for Information Technology, which
the company does right.
Easy E-commerce
How one company is making it simple to get on-line and be ready for e-commerce.
Facing Up to Customer Needs Online
FaceTime Communications helps e-commerce companies with their customer
service by giving them the technology to have real time interactions with
buyers, chat room style.
Incentives: Don't Sign an Outsourcing Contract
Without Them
Buyers and vendors, if you've never used incentives in an outsourcing
contract, start considering them.
Leaving The Accounting To Them
High growth companies need sophisticated financial services but don't
have the capital to invest in the requisite accounting infrastructure.
No Computer Nightmares Using Everdream
Start-ups have to make their dreams a reality by operating on a shoestring,
but they can't do without computers, applications or the people to run
them.
Start-Up is Game for Outsourcing
Kärna's team of developers are applying the company's encoder precision
technology to build a better mouse.
Whiz Kids Help ASP Race To Market
SourceGate provides services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to help
them develop an additional revenue source.
Workin' On The Railroad
SNCF wanted passengers to make reservations for assigned seating on these
new trains.
ASPs Colonize New Frontiers
Peter Bendor-Samuel discusses the evolution of ERP applications from large
corporations to the mid-market.
In the Beginning...
The creation of Sabre and how they recognize the ingredients for success
and how to sustain competitive advantage.
Supplier's Services Silhouette BPO Trends
An article discussing the outsourcing of packaged software applications
and the trend for end-to-end hosting management of those applications.
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