What is an application service provider?
An application service provider is a company that businesses use to provide information technology needs over a network. Specifically, employees of the business access software applications and other IT services from an offsite location, which is the application service provider. This access takes place over a network, usually Web-based. Employees log in to the server in order to do their work. Using an application server has several significant benefits for a company. First and foremost, the company doesn’t have to buy the software applications that its employees use via the application service provider. This potentially offers a huge savings, since software can be expensive even when bought at volume discounts. Secondly, a company can expect that by using an application service provider, it eliminates its technical support quotient. Since the application service provider grants access to its servers and software, it must also be responsible for making sure that a company’s employees
Application Service Providers take advantage of the internet by installing and maintaining the applications at our data center while our customers access them with an Internet browser. This way, we can share fundamental economies of scale with our customers while offering more robust, timely and complete services than most companies can provide internally.
