Hosted applications are nothing new. Application Service Providers (ASPs) made their meteoric rise (and crashing fall) in the late 1990s, as an offshoot of the Internet Boom. The premise was to provide enterprises with the full features and functionalities of applications such as customer relationship management, sales force automation, and supply chain, without the overhead of having to install, manage, and upgrade the solutions. Not everyone bought the idea that you could successfully outsource some of your most business-critical applications, and with the Internet crash of the early 2000s, the ASP market felt the hit.
Essential Tools and Techniques for Business Architecture Development
Having laid the groundwork for a Business Architecture practice - from establishing the need to securing sponsorship and defining scope - the next logical step is figuring out how to execute on that plan. While Business Process Management (BPM) practitioners rely on...
