Web services are currently most visible in the business model of so-called application service providers.
Kelvin Lai is strategy director for Netalone.com, an application service provider and incubator, which occupies the 68th floor at The Center.
ASPs (application service providers), an idea developed with a goal to cripple Microsoft, became, this year, the hottest funded category of software.
In the very large cloud centers, where we run the Windows Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live and Bing services (among others), application service levels are all that matter.
Most such businesses can't afford the staff and hassle required to navigate a sea of local, long-distance and wireless carriers, Internet and application service providers and Web site and e-mail hosts.
Microsoft has been an active investor and partner in the new breed of Internet application service providers only last week it put money into Digex and Corio and has high hopes that later versions of Windows 2000 will become the mainstay of this market.
The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers) were no different than the tools available to the enterprise at the time: high-performance, scale-up hardware systems that were powerful, but expensive and inflexible.
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Being a young industry, there are few tools, procedures or standard data formats or service interfaces in place to guarantee data, computer application and service portability.
" They are also entitled to "competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.
Todd McKinnon is CEO and Co-founder of Okta, a cloud application management service set to launch in January.
If your employees are going to rely on a cloud based application or service they need to get online.
Next, find a suitable replacement application or service that allows you to get that same task(s) done via a mobile device.
But more often, it is created or heavily tweaked by an IT administrator creating groups and permissions using the MDM application or service.
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Starting on this date, you will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications directly on your Windows Mobile 6.x phone using the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace application and service.
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Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
The course will combine presentations with practical examples, technical visits, as well as the application of service design and consumer touchpoints in the field to support and ensure successful biodiversity-based tourism product development.
Starting on this date, Windows Mobile 6.x users will no longer be able to browse, buy or download applications directly on their Windows Mobile 6.x phones using the Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace application and service.
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Compuware APM launched its free application monitoring service Tuesday, allowing any company to scan its mobile apps within 15 or 20 minutes to see what user actions and code bottlenecks could be slowing an app down and deterring users from making a possible purchase.
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In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers.
And then, I found out that I could subscribe to the small, but important HR application as a service from a software company.
Besides a freemium-based iPad application, the service includes a patient website for patients to access their health records that doctors make available to them.
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DeviceFidelity has recently launched a partnership program allowing application and Trusted Service Manager system developers to upgrade their NFC solutions by adding support for the In2Pay microSD.
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This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.
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Some password management applications also support shared passwords for groups such as finance that have many of their team members accessing a common resource like a reporting application or credit reporting service.
They did so while also enabling faster onboarding for newly acquired companies and making the most of their data center consolidation efforts, application portfolio analysis, service desk convergence, and heavy automation at all levels.
The application goes before planners later on Monday with a recommendation to delegate powers to the senior planning service manager to approve the application.
The distinction between an online service and an application on your hard drive will disappear.
Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.
The Scottish Courts Service confirmed an application had been made.
Mr. CLELAND: Well, you really can't project the future from looking at the past because when you start doing voice over technology--and we call it techcom, which is a convergence of technology and telecom--you're really changing from a service to an application.
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