Application Service Provider (ASP) offers simple and cost-effective tools for delivering information and application programmes to a wide range of end-users. An ASP fully owns and operates the software applications. It enables companies to rent software applications and makes information available to customers via the Internet or a private network. Through ASPs the costs of an application and software can be cut down and your company can avoid huge costs connected with distributing the software to employees, partners and other end-users. ASPs offer a secure network environment that delivers chosen information communication technologies from a centralized data centre as well as provides up-to-date services and technical support.
Please find below characteristic features of these two solutions:

Advantages of ASPs:

• short time of software implementation and integration
• reduction of implementation costs
• no need of specialized IT infrastructure for the application
• high levels of security

An ASP model has become a popular solution with:

• small and medium sized businesses
• short term trainings (one or two trainings)
• testing the effectiveness of e-learning in organizations

Company’s own platform (LMS)
LMSs are favoured by the companies and organizations which have their own data platforms.

The characteristics shared by LMSs include:

• integration with the company’s systems and applications
• LMS installation according to a company’s requirements and needs
• LMS installation on a company's own server

LMSs can be successfully used:

• when on-line learning is to be used in a company in a long term perspective
• when there is a necessity of integrating it with internal systems
• when employees have access only to a corporate intranet or an internal network
• mainly for mid sized and large companies
   

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