Active Server Pages and Application Service Providers Architecture for 2000 and beyond Krishen Kota Denali Technologies

© Denali Technologies About Krishen Kota  Consultant since 1991  Founder of Five Points Consulting  Founder of Denali Technologies  Started out programming in C then moved to PowerBuilder, now working with Active Server Pages

Denali Technologies Overview  State of Business and Technology  Architecture that addresses the current state of technology and business  Questions and Answers

Denali Technologies Definitions  Application Service Provider – An application service provider manages and delivers application capabilities to multiple entities from data centers across a wide area network. An ASP may be a commercial entity, providing a paid service to customers or, conversely, a not-for-profit or government organization supporting end users.  Active Server Pages – Microsoft® Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and ActiveX components to create interactive Web pages or powerful Web-based applications.

Denali Technologies State of Information Technology  Shortage of qualified IT people. Currently 350,000 open IT positions in, projected to reach 500,000 by 2003  Immature Internet Tools – total confusion  Wild West era of eCommerce – 5 years into a 30 year cycle

Denali Technologies Application Service Provider - Proposed Business Solution  Reduced overall costs  Increased Up Time (Five 9’s)  Ability to Budget IT costs  Increase employee satisfaction  Increased customer satisfaction

Denali Technologies Active Server Pages - Proposed Technology Solution  Leverages existing Visual Basic programmer skill set  Relatively easy to code  Handles State in a Stateless World  Integrates seamlessly with IIS, SQL Server

Denali Technologies Distributed Architecture Database Server Data Application Servers Business Logic Web Servers Client Presentation Services High Speed Connection Application Service ProviderCompany Active Server Pages

Denali Technologies Key Technologies  Active Server Pages  IIS (Internet Information Server)  Windows 2000  Microsoft Application Center  Microsoft SQL Server  ADO (ActiveX Data Object)  COM+ (Component Object Model +)  MSMQ – Microsoft Message Queue  XML – Extensible Markup Language

Denali Technologies Opportunities  Application Service Provider Startup’s  Active Server Pages Development  Internet Architecture Consulting  eCommerce Sites (the new “Wild West”)

Denali Technologies Additional Resources  Denali Technologies –  Draper Consulting –  ASP 101 –  XML 101 –  Capricorn Consulting –  Application Server Provider Industry Consortium  “Professional Active Server Pages 3.0” Wrox, ISBN:  Microsoft DNA Overview -

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