The Application Service Model is a new way to deliver software application to business. It involves businesses “renting” applications that are hosted on the Intillium servers, rather than building applications from scratch or buying expensive off-the-shelf software.

There are numerous benefits to the Application Service Model (ASM) approach to application delivery. First of all, the customer does not need to invest heavily in custom application development and assume the risks associated with that process. As well, since the application code is “shared” among all of the various customers, more functionality can be built at only a marginal cost to each client, and application upgrades can be easily distributed and deployed to all customers. Furthermore, in the ASM model, the client does not have to buy, maintain, and provide service for expensive IT infrastructure and connectivity. Again, by sharing the infrastructure, each customer benefits from a higher level of infrastructure quality than any of them could afford and/or justify for their own purposes.

However, the most beneficial element of the ASM model is that it provides a common platform for communication. As the business world continues to become more connected and competitive, applications will cease to be built as stand-alone silos of information; connectivity between applications will become the critical success factor. All of Intillium’s applications are all built on world-class communication and security standards that will enable them to connect to each other or to external systems (customers, suppliers, consultants, field workers, affiliates, partners etc.).

Intillium focuses on vertical markets because it is essential that management information systems be built to meet the specific processes, workflow, structure, and administration unique to each segment. The development process begins with software and information specialists, who have extensive experience in the respective vertical market, developing architecture of the information flow and reporting needs of the segment. The applications are then developed and deployed in a rigorous test environment. Following stabilization of the application, it is then deployed as a pilot trial, with a company operating in the segment. The application is further refined based on the results of the “real world” deployment. Only then, after extensive testing and feedback from the industry, is the application service offered to the market.

The Application Service Model is changing the way that information systems are delivered to business. Intillium takes the ASM model one step further by applying specific industry experience and expertise, along with world-class software development, to produce application services that meet the needs of specific business segments.