Application Service Providers

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Implementation and integration

Its not over after you sign-in the service level agreement with an ASP, there's still an implementation and  integration needs to be done for seamless flow of transactions. A better potential solution may be to create an architecture that makes ASP application data and processes available to any other ASP or enterprise application. But this approach requires some very sophisticated enterprise application integration technology that can be quite expensive to implement. It's important to develop a strategy for ASP integration when trying to get a heterogeneous client/server, midrange and mainframe applications communicating with each other.

Typical Architecture

 
 
 

 ERP

E-Commerce

Content Management

 CRM

 ASP

 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)