{"id":549411,"date":"2006-07-04T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549411-new-directions-in-application-deployment.html"},"modified":"2006-07-04T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T18:50:26","slug":"new-directions-in-application-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549411-new-directions-in-application-deployment.html","title":{"rendered":"New directions in application deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cCost and security concerns have led to increasing customer demand for Web-enabled applications,\u201d says Aad van Schetsen, worldwide Uniface sales director of Compuware.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cClient\/server applications require powerful PCs located wherever the application is needed. Roll-out and implementation can be costly. Web applications enable centralised software deployment and all the user requires is a browser.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cSecurity risks associated with Web-enabled applications are also reduced as applications are centralised behind a firewall,\u201d says Van Schetsen.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This demand for rich Internet applications (RIAs) has led many developers to investigate Ajax-based Web Applications. Ajax is a relatively new global architecture standard, aiming to combine Web-enablement with the rich user interfaces traditionally only associated with client\/server applications.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAjax enables easy accessibility, uses low bandwidth, and gives a very much better user experience than traditional Web applications \u2013 which usually feature pitiful interfaces,\u201d says Van Schetsen. \u201cIn the past, applications often had to rely on Java, resulting in performance issues.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAs Ajax is XML- and browser-based, plug-ins are unnecessary. This results in significant performance advantages, and far better user experience compared to normal Web applications.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mobile devices have started to play an increasingly important role in businesses, and will continue to do so.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cCompanies can improve productivity by offering the option of running part of any business application on mobile devices,\u201d says Van Schetsen. \u201cThis can also lead to cost savings, improved data accuracy, and the ability for businesses to react more quickly to a fast-changing business environment. Mobility also offers employees more options for flexible working conditions.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mobile applications should feature the facility for automatic data updating once the worker returns with his mobile device to within the wireless office environment.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise applications today need to be Web-enabled and offer mobility. Corporate in-house developers or software houses must, therefore, develop applications that fulfil these new demands, or convert their existing applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}