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Article: Financial System Outsourcing: The ERP Application Hosting Option.(enterprise resource planning)
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- Government Finance Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2000 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Many public agencies looking to acquire ERP functionality may find that renting software takes less time and expense than buying it. This article describes the concept of application hosting.
In his 1995 book Being Digital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negropante observes that one way to tell if an economy is going digitalis the extent to which product content has transitioned from "atoms" to "ones and zeros." One sure sign that the future already is here, he writes, is that consumers can order anything they want on the Web and have it delivered immediately. It follows, then, that an even better sign would be if the applications ...