Datasheet: SpringCM SaaS vs ASP

As part of the first wave of Internet-enabled applications, Application Service Providers (ASPs) became popular in the late 1990s. An ASP was a company that licensed a commercial software application (such as a document management sys- tem, ERP system, etc … ) or sometimes assumed a company's licenses for its own application and hosted that applica- tion in a secure, central facility. It then licensed that application to many companies and customized the package for each customer. The result was, theoretically, a customized version of commercial applications available to users at a lower cost of ownership.