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

Active Server Pages and Application Service Providers

Architecture for 2000 and beyond

Krishen Kota

Denali Technologies

www.denali-tech.com

www.denali-tech.com© 2000 - 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


Overview

State of Business and Technology Architecture that addresses the current state

of technology and business Questions and Answers


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.


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


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


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


Distributed Architecture

Database Server

Data

Application Servers

Business Logic

Web Servers

Client

Presentation Services

High Speed Connection

Application Service Provider Company

Active Server Pages


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


Opportunities

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


Additional Resources Denali Technologies – www.denali-tech.com Draper Consulting – www.draperconsulting.com ASP 101 – www.asp101.com XML 101 – www.xml101.com Capricorn Consulting – www.capconinc.com Application Server Provider Industry Consortium -

www.aspindustry.org “Professional Active Server Pages 3.0” Wrox, ISBN:

1861002610 Microsoft DNA Overview -

http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/windowsdna.asp


Questions & Answers

Contact Information:

Krishen [email protected]

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