Dawn Bushaus

After getting bailed out of financial trouble by Bain Capital Partners a year a half ago, application service provider Interpath looks like a whole new company. By most accounts, Interpath grew too quickly under its former ownership, Carolina Power & Light (now Progress Energy). During the dot-com heyday, the company employed about 700 people and […]

Add application service provider USinternetworking to the growing list of companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company filed a pre-negotiated Chapter 11 petition Jan. 7, while also announcing a finalized commitment from Bain Capital Partners for a $106-million investment once USi emerges from bankruptcy. The company predicts that will happen this spring. USi, […]

While many application service providers are closing up shop or consolidating to survive, Surebridge has managed to make the software-as-service model work. Profitable just one year after it started in 1997, the company recently took on two rounds of financing totaling $56 million in order to expand. Surebridge now hosts applications for about 75 mid-sized […]

During the next couple of weeks, software provider Siebel Systems will roll out a new version of its customer-relationship management software aimed specifically at communications service providers. The latest general-purpose version of Siebels software, Siebel 7, was launched Nov. 16. Now, the company is out talking up industry-specific versions of the platform. One of Siebel […]

Although analysts have long predicted that telcos would have to become ASPs, it seems that carriers wait-and-see approach may have been smart after all. Yesterday, Cable & Wireless announced that it is folding its a-Services division. That leaves only one telco – Qwest Communications International – with an ASP arm. C&W made the decision to […]

The word from Microsoft is that todays application service provider business model is a bust. The boys and girls from Redmond are now proselytizing a new vision for ASPs, one based on Web services. Microsoft has been briefing service providers, software developers, systems integrators and analysts on a new strategy that it calls the Web […]