Web-based Application Development

Businesses today require fast, easy access to dynamic enterprise data, both through corporate intranets and the public internet. This is no small feat, considering the range of data sources and data types found in most enterprises, but it's a crucial capability, because interactive data access drives the web applications that deliver the information you need to maximize the potential of your business.

Web applications include all the e-commerce sites that have become the rage. These sites allow you to browse the catalogue and also place items in your shopping basket, choose a shipping option and then pay for the items, all without ever picking up the phone. Many sites offer real-time inventories, so you know if the items you want are in stock. Other applications include many business-to-business applications. Web applications allow organisations to access, analyse and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers and partners. It helps organisations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships and develop differentiated product offerings. This means these sites must have real-time access to a database and the ability not only to read the data, but also to build a page on the fly to reflect the values in the database. Building pages on the fly is at the heart of websites and web applications.

The true measure of an enterprise application system often comes down to system scalability and total throughput. Web applications have moved beyond the world wide web. The platform-independent, open-source, thin-client architecture of web applications makes them the solution to many chronic information technology problems.

• Users need to access their desktop and client-server applications remotely
• Trading partners require access to your internal data sources
• Business functions that might be automated are still performed manually because not all involved parties can access the information systems
• Desktop computers must be upgraded frequently to support "fatter" applications
• The cost of deploying software to the desktop and supporting it is escalating
• Users expect a graphical interface and reject legacy "green screen" mainframe applications
• Conventional remote-access approaches (dial-in access, modem pools, FTP, dedicated lines and value-added networks) are difficult and expensive to maintain and increase security risk

COMPRSA has a very active perspective on how application architectures should be created by developing component-based application development models for the web. It is best to apply an integrated approach to this task, employing business solutions that meet the broadest spectrum of needs - from supply-chain to consumer.

Database-driven web application development has enabled COMPRSA to be market leaders in this field, building dynamic web applications using state of the art tools and technologies. COMPRSA specializes in web application development.

COMPRSA offers the following web-based solutions:

• Developing web sites and e-commerce sites
• Developing intranets, extranets and enterprise information portals
• Developing new web applications
• Web-enabling client-server applications (application serving or conversion)
• Web-enabling legacy mainframe
• Deploying dynamic data to the web