Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

I’ve been hosting applications on local hardware for years and have come across numerous tools during this time. Media streaming platforms, photo managers, game servers, ebook organizers, and a host ...

When you think about self-hosted services, applications designed to boost your productivity are probably the first things that come to mind. However, the home server ecosystem has thousands of ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

James writes books, articles and jokes about technology from his Dallas-area home office. He also consults for those who don’t read his books and articles. The pendulum swings back and forth. What ...

Black Knight Financial Services (BKFS) has announced the introduction of its Application Service Provider-hosted (ASP) solution for Black Knight’s LoanSphere LendingSpace loan origination system (LOS) ...

Microsoft is extending the availability of its hosted productivity and collaboration applications to 15 countries in Europe as well as Canada, Japan and New Zealand beginning Monday. Microsoft’s ...

A RASH OF financial and business-model problems among ASPs (application service providers) during the past year has cast doubt over the viability of the hosted application model. But IBM does not see ...