Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

FoneMine’s ready-to-use software uses existing cellular services to allow companies to reach out to cell phone users with a range of mobile content. A start-up mobile content vendor is offering ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

EDA has experimented with different types of hosted application services since the dot-com days. Cadence's recent announcement that it plans to offer some tools through the hosted application model ...

Black Knight Financial Services (BKFS) has announced the introduction of its Application Service Provider-hosted (ASP) solution for Black Knight’s LoanSphere LendingSpace loan origination system (LOS) ...

I’ve been hosting applications on local hardware for years and have come across numerous tools during this time. Media streaming platforms, photo managers, game servers, ebook organizers, and a host ...

Microsoft is extending the availability of its hosted productivity and collaboration applications to 15 countries in Europe as well as Canada, Japan and New Zealand beginning Monday. Microsoft’s ...

The buy will bolster IBM's application-hosting business, which CEO Sam Palmisano has singled out as having significant growth potential. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Purchasing business applications as hosted services is an option again, after the whole concept faltered a few years ago. Today these services are mainly being delivered by a small number of niche ...