Group West Systems Ltd - News Release
Group West introduces WebPub
Group West Systems Ltd GPW
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Thu 5 Aug 99 News Release
Mr. Jag Sandhu reports
Group West is introducing its WebPub e-commerce product, an Internet
advertising system that provides the tools to professionally present
advertising content on the Web.
WebPub Remote Hosting provides the same full featured search, presentation
and electronic ad order entry features currently being provided through
in-house systems, except at a fraction of the cost. The concept behind
WebPub Remote Hosting is that all of the systems administration, hardware,
networking and help desk support is the responsibility of Group West.
WebPub Remote Hosting is suitable for any size publication, but is
particularly attractive to the smaller publications and corporate groups
which cannot afford the staff and infrastructure costs to host their own
advertising and editorial content. WebPub Remote Hosting is in effect the
home site for these types of publications.
Advantages summary:
reduced labour costs;
reduced hardware and software costs;
reduced communications costs;
fixed expense; and
professional consulting, programming and site design services.
Jan McDonald, general manager of Group West California, stated: "The time
of the application service provider (ASP) is now. Today's technology allows
publishers to move the cost of business outside of the traditional capital
purchase arena. Since technology has provided us the means to make
outsourcing a true business solution, it should be applied to all areas
that add profitability to the publishing industry and not limited to add-on
products. A completely hosted publishing system can be accomplished and we
intend to offer one."
Founded in 1976, Group West is in the business of providing midrange
outsourcing and supplying computer technology products and services to
commercial organizations and government agencies primarily in North
America. The company currently employs over 140 professionals in Canada and
the United States to deliver these products and services to its customer
base. The company has positioned itself as an application service provider
(ASP), outsourcing business applications over the Internet. Group West
services allow companies to quickly deploy applications for a flat monthly
fee, without the cost of implementing and managing the applications or
underlying infrastructure. According to Forrester Research Inc., this
industry is projected to reach $21-billion (U.S.) by 2001. Giga Information
Group has predicted that network-based rentals will be the most popular way
to get desktop computing software by 2002.
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