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June 15, 1999

Sequent today unveiled its programme to help ISVs ready apps for ASP delivery, revealing that up-and-coming enterprise vendors Clarus and Pivotal Software are among those already using its design and testing facility.

The high-end server vendor's eReady Program is designed to help next-generation independent software vendors (ISVs) ready their midmarket-focussed apps for ASP delivery. The core of the programme is the eReady Lab, a design and test facility at Sequent's Beaverton OR headquarters which will act as an incubator preparing apps for web-hosted delivery.

"We believe there's a hole there that needs to be filled - those small and midmarket companies need an environment to test out their applications in an environment where they can scale up to thousands of users," programme director Kevin Joyce told ASP News Review in a briefing yesterday.

Working in partnership with Microsoft, Cisco's Hosted Application Initiative and storage vendor EMC, the Sequent facility has been optimised for front-office applications that run on Microsoft's Windows NT environment. "A lot of these up-and-coming midmarket apps have an NT lineage," said Joyce.

In addition to Clarus and Pivotal, two other ISVs are already using the facility and six more are ready to bring their applications in for testing, he said.

Sequent will help them migrate their applications to operate with Unix database servers while retaining the NT-based front-end, he explained. This will enable ASPs to achieve the economies of scale and performance benefits that come from deploying apps from a shared server environment, he added.

Once an application has been tested and prepared for ASP deployment, Sequent will then assist vendors in finding ASP partners to deliver the apps. "We have pretty good relationships with a lot of major telcos. They are looking for apps that are ready to go and have good demand plans," said Joyce.

Sequent has already built up almost two years' experience of assisting ISVs and providers to deploy applications for 'netsourced' delivery, he said. The list includes pharmaceutical industry specialist NDC, financials vendor QSP, telco equipment provider Lucent and IT service providers EDS and Carrera Consulting.

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