More pageviews means you have to pay to use the service, but that's not the core of Apture's business model, which is centered around charging publishers for premium features, integration of custom content sources, customizations, and priority support.
It is important for support organizations to draw the line to customizations and develop a model for custom Web parts and applications that can give most of the support tasks to the developers.
They have a family resemblance, and many of them were even built on the same plan, but they've all been through enough owners, with the attendant additions, customizations and refittings, that each has its own character.
A general trend toward design modularity, purpose-driven customizations, and better critical thinking in the design process is evident as the team gains experience.
We chose a modular and distributed design for scalability, flexibility, options for customizations, and the possibility to add more functionality at a later stage.
We argue that the mobile agent can be a building block for specific network customizations, and introduction of new network functionality.
