NaviSite debuts Web app services

Andover, Mass. - NaviSite Internet Services is moving from the relatively simple world of Web hosting to the more complex area of applications.

NaviSite has teamed with several software companies, including Engage/Accipiter, LivePicture, iCat, OpenMarket and CyberCash, to let customers outsource the management of Web sites.

One company is already testing the service, and with good results. L & H Vitamins' Web site has been hosted by NaviSite for nearly two years. The vitamin supplier just started using NaviSite's iCat Catalog Hosting and Management Service.

"We decided we wanted to do more with our Web site, and that's when we went with NaviSite," says Fred Mutsman, IT administrator at the Long Island City, N.Y., company. Now that L & H has added the iCat catalog software to its Web site, the company is able to offer its 11,000 products online. "Revenue from the site is growing approximately 10% to 15% every month," Mutsman says.

NaviSite is also offering AdBureau, a service based on Engage/Accipiter's AdServing and AdManager software, which tracks advertising impressions.

Also being offered is the CyberCash Shared Credit Card Clearing Application Service, which will let small to mid-size commerce sites perform credit card authorizations. Pricing is based on the number of transactions processed per month.

By year-end, NaviSite will release Open Market Transact Commerce Service. The Open Market service will offer users a direct connection to credit card processing houses such as First-USA and PaymentTech.

Users will get online customer authentication, authorization, order and payment processing, automated tax and shipping calculations, and online tracking and status capabilities. Pricing is not available for these services.

NaviSite also rolled out LivePicture Shared Image Enhancement Application Service, which lets users store, manage and add high-resolution images to their Web sites.

NaviSite is hosting and managing various application services at its data centers around the country. Users get 24-7 management and monitoring of their Web sites and applications.

All of the services except the Open Market service are available now.

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