Questions and Answers

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1. What does ASP mean?

2. What is an ASP?

3. How does an ASP work?

4. Where is the Application and Data hosted?

5. What is required from the customer?

6. How do I access the information?

7. What type of Applications can an ASP host?

1. Application Service Provider.

2. The ASP’s mission is to create an on-line service center that offers a new way to access software. With this model a company’s applications are hosted, upgraded, and managed by a third company (ASP) instead of in-house.

3. An ASP offers its customers and subscribers a managed service in exchange for a monthly fee. It is the pay-per-view concept applied to applications/software.

4. Applications and data are hosted, upgraded, and managed in the ASP´s Data Center, instead of being hosted in the company’s servers.

5. Requirements are minimal: a telephone line and a PC with basic requirements and we are ready to start.

6. Customers can access the application and data from any place in the office, home, or even from the road or plane, as long as they have access to the Internet.

7. There are two types of technology: One is Web Enabled, which allows a traditional application running in a server to be accessed using a browser from a local network and the other is through Internet access.