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Packaged Software Rental: The Net's Killer App examines the factors which have brought about the emergence of application services and the underlying engine of online packaged software rental, analysing the opportunities and threats presented by this powerful new phenomenon. See a full contents listing below.
This 37-page, 16,000-word report argues that online packaged software rental is the most significant development in the history of computing since the advent of the PC. It is essential reading if you want to understand the origins, mechanics and consequences of this momentous new trend.
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Packaged Software Rental: The Net's Killer App, Edition 1.1
Introduction
Heading for e-services- Application outsourcing
- IT outsourcing evolves
- Packaged solutions outsourcing
- Business process outsourcing
- Application hosting
- Hosting mirrors outsourcing
- Web server hosting
- Infrastructure hosting
- Application server hosting
- False comfort from co-location
- Application rental
- Subscription services
- Browser-based apps
- Business portals
- Towards a common destiny
Online rental computing- Why rental?
- Why packaged?
- Renting shrinkwrapped packages
- Renting enterprise packages
- Renting service packages
- Software breaks out of the box
Converging undercurrents- Technology enablers
- IP networking and the Internet
- Server-based computing
- Thin clients
- Distributed systems management
- Structural enablers
- E-business
- Mid-market vendor strategies
- Skill shortage
- Benefits
- For vendors and service providers
- For users
The new providers- Application service providers
- Software applications
- Complementary services
- Rental payment
- Technical infrastructure
- Sharing for success
- Layering the ASP channel
- ASP classifications
- Obstacles to overcome
- Trust
- Security
- Licensing
- Billing
- Integration
- The zero footprint debate
- Resistance to change
It's a killer- The real killers
- In the wake of the PC
- Short-term struggles
- IT service providers dive in
- Telcos suffer culture clash
- Business consultants show muscle
- Internet impact
- Portals gain new revenues
- ISPs add value
- E-payments get a kickstart
- Software futures
- ASPs turbocharge component apps
- Packaging gets personal
- Bloatware goes bust
- Resuscitate the NC
- Vendors in hock
- The dangers of computing as utility
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New purchasers also receive a draft excerpt from our forthcoming report Anatomy of an ASP and a compilation of articles specially selected from the first six months of the ASP News Review newsletter (Nov 98 to Apr 99). Normally available to subscribers only, these feature-length articles give an insider view of the developing ASP industry, including:
o Insights from the founders of three pioneering ASP startups - Biztone.com, Cylex Systems and Telecomputing
o Insider information on tactics and technology from Microsoft, Netscape and Sun
o Strategic viewpoints from leading ERP vendors JD Edwards and Peoplesoft
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