What is an ASP (Application Service Provider)?
An ASP deploys, hosts and manages access to a packaged application to multiple parties from a centrally managed facility. The applications are delivered to clients over networks on a subscription basis. This delivery model speeds up implementation, minimizes the expenses and risks incurred across application life cycle, and overcomes the chronic shortage of qualified technical personnel available in-house.

Who will support and maintain the MSDS eService application?
The burden of technical support falls to MSDS Solutions as an ASP. The application code resides on our side. When upgrades are released, end users will not have to worry about downloading or installing anything from MSDS Solutions Center. We will simply upgrade the copy of the software that resides on “our” servers, and all subscribers access the new version through a web browser.

Key Benefits of an ASP model:

• Rapid scalability of product, no software up date or implementation to access new features
• Access to the newest MSDS Solution technology
• Robust features for subscription pricing
• No licensing fees, no data to import and no delay to access new information
• No long-term contracts; ASP are a pay-as-you-go cost structure
• Companies can leverage unique distribution benefits to bring application to disparate site locations, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• No need for IT support as our application does not conflict with your existing IT infrastructure
• Customers are free to focus their time & resources on their core business concerns