Partnership with Ensim will target comms service providers
Microsoft is to move into hosted applications through a deal with hosting automation firm Ensim.
The first fruit of the venture will be Ensim Unify, which the pair claim is the first hosting operations support system for service providers.
The product combines Microsoft's .Net technologies, including Active Directory, Windows Server and Visual Studio .Net, with Ensim's hosting process automation systems.
Unify is designed to provide a common hosting platform to centrally provision and manage multiple services. It also offers support for the wholesale and retail distribution of hosted services.
Microsoft claimed that the product will allow service providers to offer hosted applications while efficiently managing, integrating and distributing hosted software within their infrastructures.
News source: Vnunet.com
Microsoft is to move into hosted applications through a deal with hosting automation firm Ensim.
The first fruit of the venture will be Ensim Unify, which the pair claim is the first hosting operations support system for service providers.
The product combines Microsoft's .Net technologies, including Active Directory, Windows Server and Visual Studio .Net, with Ensim's hosting process automation systems.
Unify is designed to provide a common hosting platform to centrally provision and manage multiple services. It also offers support for the wholesale and retail distribution of hosted services.
Microsoft claimed that the product will allow service providers to offer hosted applications while efficiently managing, integrating and distributing hosted software within their infrastructures.
News source: Vnunet.com
In a response to a written parliamentary question, junior DTI minister Gerry Sutcliffe confirmed: "The value of the database should be enhanced by the inclusion of the last three years' data which has been delayed by IT problems."
It is hoped that the data will be available for publication later this year.
A spokesman for the DTI admitted there had been "a pretty large problem" with the computer systems.
In 1999 a group led by IT services firm Fujitsu Services, along with consulting business CMG, took control of the systems in an outsourcing deal worth £200m.
Fujitsu Services declined to comment, saying that its contract with the DTI prohibited it from responding directly.
The DTI has decided to abolish the Hass system, after a strategic review concluded that the money would be better spent elsewhere.
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