Apps4biz.com signs Veracicom as ASP partner
Based in Andover, MA, Apps4Biz.com offers hosted manufacturing, order processing, inventory management, supply chain management, and e-commerce solutions.
Veracicom will offer hosting services in the Northwest U.S. for Apps4biz solutions, including manufacturing, order processing, inventory management, supply chain management, and e-commerce software. In addition to hosting Apps4biz.com's solutions for small businesses (between $1 million -$50 million), it will also resell the applications through its own channel.
Apps4biz.com's ASP approach offers customers reduced risks, no up-front capital, and requires no additional information technology infrastructure. Its thin-client applications are ideally suited for this approach, employing only a few different screen formats vs. hundreds for similar systems.
The incorporation of this simple design change means that the applications run smoothly and with lightening speed over the Internet because the screen formats are often small enough to be cached on the client, which leaves only the data required for a given transaction to flow through the connection.
"Veracicom offers 24x7 service and superior security, performance and communications capabilities so that customers can run their business securely and efficiently over the Internet or dedicated lines," says Peter Lopes, VP of marketing for Apps4biz.com, noting that it has its own channel to extend the market reach for Apps4biz solutions.
According to Mike Hjorleifsson, chief technology officer/chairman for Veracicom, Apps4biz.com fills a void it had for Veracicom's smaller business customers. "Because Apps4biz.com develops software specifically for this market, Veracicom and its channel partners will now have a state-of-the-art ASP business solution for these customers," Hjorleifsson says.
Edited by Jim Lardear
Managing Editor, PlantAutomation.com