Application Service Providing covers the management, hosting and delivery of software applications and services to multiple customers from centrally located servers across the Internet or a private network by usage of a rental or leasing agreement. The way of operating a typical ASP solution model considers the offering of suitable application software, the data centres where all the data and applications reside and the implementation and integration of heterogeneous systems under special consideration of the customer needs. This paper describes a market study, requirements analysis and modelling of a new application service providing platform.
