SAS Solutions OnDemand: Redefining the Role of Application Service Provider (ASP) by Integrating High-Value Analytic Solutions, Optimized Infrastructure, and the Right Expert at the Right Time

Overview

After a half-dozen lean years, many IT organizations have smaller budgets and staffs than ever, yet demands for new business applications and network processing continue to expand. For a growing number of organizations, the answer has been to outsource business functions to an Application Service Provider (ASP). Application hosting brings state-of-the-art applications to companies that prefer to have them managed by subject matter experts Five years ago, SAS responded to this market need by offering SAS IntelliVisor, a hosted solution for Web analytics. Under this model, companies transmit their data to SAS for analysis; the next day they receive reports that help them optimize their Web business.