問23
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組織の情報共有とコミュニケーションの促進を図るためにグループウェアを利用することを検討している。必要なサーバやソフトウェアを自社で購入せずに利用できるソリューションとして，適切なものはどれか。
平成29年度 春期 ITパスポート試験 問23
ストラテジ系システム戦略 › ソリューションビジネス
This question's explanation and your answers so far.
解説
問 23
- ア
正解 The correct answer is ア (ASP). An ASP (Application Service Provider) is a type of provider or service model that rents out business application software to customers over a network such as the Internet, letting them use it for a monthly fee or a similar charge. Users do not need to purchase or build the software, such as groupware, or the servers that run it in-house; they can directly use the environment prepared by the ASP provider. This exactly matches the condition in the question of being able to use the necessary servers and software without purchasing them in-house, so ア is appropriate.
Incorrectイ
BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is a management approach in which a company entrusts its own business processes themselves (such as call centers, payroll calculation, and accounting work) as a whole to an external specialized provider. It is not a mechanism for using software or servers without purchasing them, but rather a concept of outsourcing the execution of business operations, so it is not appropriate as a means of using groupware.
Incorrectウ
An ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a provider that supplies Internet connection lines and connection services. What it provides is network connectivity, not the rental of application software such as groupware or the servers that run it, so it does not meet the condition in the question.
Incorrectエ
SI (Systems Integration) is a service that undertakes, as a package, the planning, construction, deployment, and maintenance of an information system according to a customer's requirements (the provider that does this is called an SIer). This is a form of designing and building a system for one's own company, and it presupposes preparing the servers and software oneself, so it does not meet the question's requirement of using them without purchasing.
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- An ASP is a provider or service that rents out application software over a network. Users can use it for a monthly fee or similar without owning servers or software of their own, and it is a forerunner concept of SaaS.
- Distinguish the confusingly similar abbreviations: ASP = renting out applications, ISP = Internet connection, BPO = external outsourcing of business processes, SI = contracted construction of systems; grasp the point that what each of them provides is different.
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