Answer both question in 3- page paper

There are numerous application service providers that enable organizations to access and use Web-based application software.  We identified Salesforce.com (Links to an external site.) as one such ASP. Search the Web and find at least five other organizations that are ASPs. What are the names of the companies?  What application software do they provide over the Web?  What additional services do they provide, if any? Write a paper analyzing and contrasting these ASPs and what they have to offer prospective clients.

How do you use benchmarks and benchmarking in your personal life?  Think about grades, making money, supporting charities, and the like.  Choose one significant way in which you use benchmarks and benchmarking in your personal life and describe it? What are your benchmark values?  How were you able to derive your benchmark values?  From where did they come?

Discussion ?- needs to be separate a paragraph or better will be suffice

E-business

Consider an e-business like Amazon.com (Links to an external site.).  Which Web-centric metrics on pages 209 - 211 of your text would be most important to it?  Justify your answers.  Now consider a content provider like CNN (Links to an external site.)?  Which Web-centric metrics would be most important to it?  Justify your answers.  Why would two e-businesses have such a different focus on Web-centric metrics?