subject: Optimize Business Performance, Using Web Application Development [print this page] For all sort of businesses, now it has become mandatory to do business in both traditional as well as online way. Due to the widespread acceptance of the internet and ecommerce by customers and vendors, it has become necessary to have a website. Due to this, the web application development has emerged as the latest buzzword in the software industry all over the world.
Generally, most of the organizations go for the web application development, due to the following reasons like:
Organizations want to create their unique website for showcasing the online details like their background, products or services offered customer profiles or feedbacks, etc.
Organizations want to integrate or share the information spread across their various branch offices or networks spread across the various geographical areas.
Business organizations want to integrate their business to business or supply channels on a secure or private network, shared between the partners.
Some big organizations want a sort of common platform to communicate their web services to internal people.
Most importantly, due to widespread use of the internet the end customers are expecting the e-commerce or m-commerce mode of trading for booking the orders for the various products or services. Thus, the internet savvy organizations want to take benefit of this trend in order to expand their businesses.
As per the customers specific requirements, a variety of web based applications could be developed using the web application development process. Basically, organizations want to align or synergize these web applications with their current marketing strategies and hence, expect to implement the same. Most of these web applications involve the three layers such as:
User interfacing front-end layer: They provide the user with variety of information regarding the organizations products and services, prices, facilities etc. It is designed to get various inputs from the end customers like quantity, delivery details etc.
Business logic middle-layer: Based on the inputs provided by the end customers, the internal business logic supplies various feedbacks to the online customers. This business logic performs the various calculations, based on a set of predefined rules in the background and produces results, which are then displayed back to the customers, to help them take the decision.
Back-end layer: Basically, it involves some kind of back-end storage or database, in order to store or retrieve whatever online transactions happen with the customers or internally between various departments of the organization. They store the relevant rules, facts or data and the resultant information from various calculations.
This web application development process generally involves the following steps:
Knowing the requirements Here the objectives, scope, limitations, delivery schedule, resource, etc. required for the project are finalized in a specification document.
Planning - Development people decide about the technologies, resources, features, time duration to complete the project etc. and submit it for the clients approval.
Development and testing The coding, testing, review done to get a draft copy of the application.
Finally the implementation, training, support and maintenance of the application.
Thus, the organizations can use innovative web applications, created through web application development process, and take advantages of the internet boom.
