Internal Network Applications

Although a great deal of attention has been devoted in recent years to E-commerce, the mainstay of business IT continues to be the internal network application. This is an application that runs exclusively on the company network, and hence is not generally accessible to external users.

Examples of internal network applications include such indispensables as accountancy packages, purchase and time recording software, and logistics applications.

Internal Network Applications can combine all the visual appeal and functionality of web-based solutions with a number of other distinct advantages.

• They do not require external hosting on a web server. This negates the need to pay a monthly maintenance fee, and means that management of the programme can be performed both in-house and externally if required.
• Depending on the technology used, Internal Network applications can perform better than their web based counterparts. Communication over the internet is usually slower than that over an internal network.

…against these advantages, it should be noted that internal network applications are a lot hard to distribute over multiple geographical locations.

Designweb will carefully examine your requirements and advise you as to whether an internal or web based solution is best for your business.