After the speedy rate of change in business technology over the last few years, many businesses find themselves with a mixture of databases and applications that work only in seclusion. Web based applications have evolved with improvements in security and technology, as there are plenty of situations where traditional software based applications and systems could be improved by migrating them to a web based application.
Talking about some of the core benefits of Web Based Application:
Compatibility:
Web based applications are far more compatible across platforms than traditional installed software. The web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc are available for a multitude of operating systems and so whether you use Windows, Linux or Mac OS you can run the web application without any problem.
Efficiency:
Everyone hates to deal with piles of paper unless they don't have any other alternatives. The benefit of web based solution is that they not only modernizes established business practices, but also makes services and information available from any web-facilitated PC.
Highly deployable
Because of its manageability and cross platform support deploying web applications to the end user is very easy. They are also perfect where bandwidth is restricted and the system and data is remote to the user. As they are most deployable you simply need to send the user a website address to log into and provide them with internet access facility.
Security of live data
Normally in more complex systems data is moved about separate systems and data sources. In web based systems these systems and processes can often be merged by reducing the need to move the data around. Web based applications also provide an additional security by removing the need for the user to have access to the data and back end servers.
Cost Effective
Web based applications can considerably lower the costs because of reduced support and maintenance, lower requirements on the end user system and simplified plans.
By further reorganizing your business operations as a result of your web based application additional savings can often be calculated.
Coming to the conclusion part, Web based applications have come a long way and is offering competitive advantages to traditional software based systems allowing businesses to merge their systems and processes and above all reduce costs as well.
