RE: FN-FORUM Sites in a box

date posted 1st November 2000 13:37

I think a modular construction of e-businesses will apply just as much to
medium and large companies as it will to smaller companies. Maye even more
so.

I'm taking this view because of the changes I see happening in the ASP
(application service provider) world. Once fashionable, and now out of
fashion, they are currently returning with a new twist: instead of
supplying the application software, they are providing the services that
the applications are designed for. In other words, these new style ASPs
won't supply the software to the client at all - only the service functions
it can provide.

This has massive advantages for companies. They do not have to train people
to understand the software. They do not have to run the risk of having
expert employees (who they depend upon to run the software) leaving the
company. If they decide to change to a different type of system they will
have no major costs or disruptions.

This is having the effect of fragmenting companies so that they become
associations of collaborating smaller companies controlled by a nerve
center which is the core business massively downsized. This makes them
highly adaptive and able to cope quickly at relatively small cost to
competitive and technological changes.

In this way, Web sites will come not as components consisting of software
designs, but, in the form several small specialist companies that not only
provide the components of Web site design but are responsible for their
hosting, continual operation and continuous development and evolution. The
Web site will be like a rented living organism that is highly flexible and
adaptive.

This is not maybe, this is happening right now. Take a look at the plans
Microsoft announced in July regarding their intended massive future
investment in the ASP market.

peter









>It is funny this thread should have appeared today, because I am spending
>today learning the inner workings of Actinic Business. The problem I have
>with these products is two fold. 1) They make it very difficult to
>customise, not impossible but they all use custom taging which can be a
>bugger to understand. 2) They are restrictive, for instance in Actinic
>Business although you can have multiple price bands for diffrent customers
>you can not remove certain items so certain customers can see certain items.
>
>I do agree with Peter for small business this is the way it will go, but for
>medium and larger companies they will still require custom sites to enable
>them to do what they want (or maybe there will be bolt on additions to the
>software to enable certain aspects to be done by the software, so you can
>add what functionality you need to your own site).
>
>Morgan
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