El Paso opts for hosted financial system.

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Citing cost savings and the difficulty of attracting qualified technology workers to maintain modern software applications, the City of El Paso, Texas, recently decided to have its financial and human resources systems hosted by an application service provider rather than buying and maintaining the applications on its own. The use of ASPs has been slowly catching on in the public sector as security and other concerns have been improved. In El Paso, city...