Feb 11th 2000: USinternetworking this week revealed that it has become the first pureplay ASP startup to breach the 1000-employee mark, and the first to formally meet the ISO 9001 quality assurance standard.

The high-end ASP asserted its enterprise application integration (EAI) credentials Tuesday (Feb 8th), relaunching its internal ASP infrastructure as the USi Global Services Platform (USiGSP).

USi, which recruited its 1000th employee Jan 20th, revealed this week that it achieved registration to ISO 9001, the International Standards Organisation's standard for quality management procedures, on Dec 16th. The accreditation, which covers all of the ASP's operations and client services processes, came at the end of a nine-month submission and evaluation period, and validates the strength of the ASP's internal procedures, VP marketing Michele Perry told ASP News Review in a briefing last week.

"It's what's going to allow us to scale. Delivering what you told your customers you were going to deliver - and doing it consistently over a three year contract - is the tough part [of being an ASP]," she said.

USiGSP covers the provider's 'priority peering' Internet network infrastructure, its network and systems management, mirroring, security and EAI capabilities. As part of the relaunch, USi revealed that it uses IBM's MQSeries product line as the core technology of its inter-application integration.

It will further highlight EAI with the introduction of a number of pre-integrated packages that extend its Peoplesoft ASP offering with other applications, company officials confirmed. The packages will include a quote-to-order system based on Peoplesoft and Siebel, and a payroll management application that integrates Peoplesoft with outsourced third party services such as ADP.

Around thirty percent of USi's customers now take more than one application, said Perry, helping to account for its average monthly revenue per customer rising to $36,000 in the fourth quarter.

USi's full-year financial results, announced Jan 27th, reported annual revenues of $35.5 and a net loss of $103.3m, which equates to $2.93 per share. Just over $50m worth of contracts were signed in the fourth quarter, bringing the total value of contracts signed in 1999 to $158.3m. USi stock (ticker: USIX) is listed on the Nasdaq market.

Founded in Jan 1998, USi was the first startup to launch as an application service provider. It launched its first application service offering, based on Siebel front office software, in August of that year.

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