About Web Applications

Web-based Applications are web sites that offer more to theuser than normal, static web sites. The difference is the way theinformation is provided to you. The site actually responds to the user,changing to provide the information the user wants to see. The Internetand web technologies can provide an alternative to traditional desktopsoftware. You can move desktop applications to centralized serverswhere they can be accessed using a web browser. This approach, calledweb-based applications or Internet applications, enables organizationsto rapidly adapt to changing needs while minimizing costs.

What are the advantages?
The advantages of Web-based Applications are:

moreuseful info to the user - users feel they are getting the informationthey actually want from the site and therefore come back more often
more useful info from the user
costsavings - Web applications provide immediate, seat-by-seat savings, butwhere they really begin to shine is in the long-term. Upgrades,licenses, maintenance, troubleshooting and backups can all take placein a single location, rather than dispersed throughout the enterprise.
Typical Web-based Applications
Youwill have experienced Web-based Applications if you have used onlinebanking (e-banking) or a site that provides customized information,such as an online job board or online stock portfolio management tools.

Some examples of applications that Documédia has designed include:

Adaptingcollections of paper forms into PDF forms that input the data into adatabase to facilitate document management and printing. This processmakes it easy for staff to complete common paperwork electronically andreduce re-keying of data.
Streamlining existing corporate systems,such as employee evaluations, benefits enrollment and salesfulfillment, by combining tasks performed by several programs into asingle Web application.
Moving project planning and collaboration online with scheduling, discussion systems, document archiving and other services.
Insuring staff access to important information through Web-based document libraries and search engines
Dynamic intranet, job board, dynamic portfolio, press release, buy & sell, and many other web-based applications.
How do they work?
Web-basedApplications are able to give the user a precisely tailored webexperience by pulling out the most appropriate information (usuallyfrom a database), rather than being restricted to sending out one of alimited set of standard pages.

If you were using a Web-basedscheduling program rather than local software, you would access theprogram as a web site. To use the scheduling software, you would startyour web browser and point it at a web site's Uniform Resource Locator,or URL (for example, http://myserver/scheduler). Upon arriving at thecorrect site, your web browser will display a web page that lets youuse the software. From there, the application functions in the samemanner as local software. In this example, all scheduling information,calendar data, appointments, etc. are stored in the database, andretrieved via the web browser as needed. The functionality can, ifdesired, be identical to the traditional version of the same software.

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