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ASP-BP
ASP-BP is an European framework which groups and manages
6 projects focused on ASP technology-based applications
in different industrial field.
It groups 30 partners from 9 different European countries,
with the aim of demonstrating the business benefits of
ASP Technology in a variety of industrial sectors.
Application
Service Provision: benefits of a new approach
ASP utilises web-technologies to allow software
applications to be delivered as a service. It
provides a rental model, under which you can
access software which is held on a remote machine, without
any of the technical and financial resources typically
required to install and maintain an IT system.
For the end users, this delivery model minimises
the expenses and risks incurring across the application
life cycle, and overcomes the lack of qualified technical
personnel available in-house. The ASP approach allows
end-user companies to access business-critical applications
in a cost-effective, scalable, and risk-reducing manner.
End user benefits include:
- Reduction of fixed costs:
ASP pay-per-use model enables companies to reduce
fixed costs:
- lowering overall expenditure for hardware and
applications, while avoiding upgrade and maintenance
costs (that are on the provider side);
- allowing to adopt a "pay per use" approach instead
of buying costly licences
- Flexibility of use:
The applications are delivered anywhere and at any
time that the business requires, all is needed is
an Internet access. Easy to use interfaces guarantee
access to complex applications also to non skilled
people thus avoiding the need to hire skilled personnel
by user companies.
- Reliability of the service:
The applications are managed remotely by their providers,
guaranteeing up to date versions and remote technical
assistance.
- Reduction of innovation risk:
With no capital spending on software, hardware and
IT personnel, organisations can test a new technology
with minimal impact to their existing environment.
For the ASP providers, the adoption of the ASP
approach can help to:
- Increase the market size:
Software service companies can open the usage of their
products also to small companies that were not able
to buy costly yearly licences.
- Provide new services:
The creation of on-line support services for ASP users
help the technology providers to create a better trust
in their clients thus creating a fidelity process
that is vital in the life of a selling company
Discover the benefits achieved by user and
provider companies by checking ASP-BP BUSINESS
CASES.
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EINA/ASP : Reuse is the key to productivity improvement
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The use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) in the field of software development, is one of the most important steps to guarantee the reliability and quality of the final result. Moreover, the present trend of outsourcing the software development requires very mobile workers on the side of the consulting and programming firms giving such services. One of the main barriers in the adoption of CASE tools is their cost: the license of a good CASE tool may vary from 3000 Euro to 6000 Euro plus mandatory upgrades or maintenance charges.
EINA ASP project, has overcome such barriers by realising an ASP service providing CASE tools on a pay per use basis supporting geographically distributed environments, multiple programming languages, Analysis and Design diagramming tools, reuse tools.
Thanks to this approach the end-users of the project that have tested it, Software Greenhouse and Codima, have achieved the following benefits:
- Increase of the level of reuse of a 30% (directly reflecting on the productivity)
- Reduction of up to 30% of the transportation costs (thanks to the possibility to work remotely reducing the number of meetings)
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