With the growing popularity of internet, most of the businesses and applications are getting online. Putting your application on Internet provides 24X7 access to the application without the location and platform dependency. Even if your business is of secure nature, you can always deploy the application on your local network. This makes the application available over the office Intranet and makes it available from any place irrespective of the office premise location. If need be, the same application can be opened to anyone on Internet.
These applications are run on any Internet browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari etc. There are quite a few technologies which are used to create web based applications. Some of them are:
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No body is untouched by the word E-Commerce or Electronic Commerce. Corporations and people are leveraging the reach of internet to establish never before imagined businesses and processes in unreachable territories. Internet has laid the foundation of big online businesses like Amazon.com, eBay.com, PayPal and many other businesses. People are shifting to new businesses online everyday. Lot of websites these days provide their services online like ticket booking, pizza order, banking services, stock trading etc. These are also web based applications made using the same technology as mentioned above.
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If you are running a large organization with sales, support, manufacturing, inventory and other operations, ERP packages can be one software application which can solve most of your problems and bring more predicatability and manageability to your business.
A web based content management system is an application which helps to manage and publish the content (text, articles, images etc.) using the browser.
