Web-based software.
According to Technology’s promise,
web-based software is going to dominate the IT side of Enterprises due to the
fact that business organization are increasingly moving towards a web-based
operating environment. Many companies like Google, Amazon, and HP are leading
efforts to encourage the development of web-base applications especially in the
open source style. The major benefit of
adopting and using web-based applications is that it eliminates the need for
traditional installation and maintenance issues; with web based software, users
do not have to worry about installing, configuring, or maintaining any software
as everything is centrally managed by a company’s IT department or an a third
party business partner. According to the
text book, Microsoft is launching an online version of its popular MS office
suite products and will be available for users online. If this trend continues,
we should expect to see and interact with virtually any application from the
comfort of a web browser ; In other words, our operating system will be transformed
to a web browser that provides the same performance and functionality as an
operating system does.
Two forces that may impact the
evolution of this technology forecast:
Force #1: Globalization: as we
continue to live in a high-tech and highly global business market, corporations
and institutions around the world need their employees, customers, and business
partners to have access to applications in a timely manner without the need to
manually install and configure software. This force will further help this
technology to move fast and mature.
Force #2: Financial: the cost of
purchasing software, maintaining and
supporting it will lead corporations to move away from this traditional
approach and shift towards a web-based environment that provides cost effective
web-based solutions and help boost employees’ productivity and performance.