If you have been in business for a while, you have probably grown accustomed to the hundreds of installation CDs, calls to internal or external IT services providers, software freezes and constant need to update, virus and malware and spam attacks, compatibility issues and so on and so forth. None of these sound like positive experiences in the field of business intelligence, and yet many entrepreneurs and managers of organizations run through these same circles again and again throughout their careers. Enter Web Software.
It’s possible you haven’t heard about web software before. You may have zero or little understanding of how web software works. But it is extremely unlikely you have never had any contact with a web software application in your life before this moment. Sometimes quietly and more often than not surreptitiously, companies, non-profits and government offices around you have switched to web applications without you even noticing. Banks, travel agencies, schools, hospitals, diplomatic missions would be just some of the types of places that have most likely switched to web based software instead of software installed on specific hardware. Why?
Reasons to go online abound
Contrary to many popular myths, having software installed on your computer or server or external hard drive is not the optimal solution. Some of the issues you face when sticking to the old fashioned ways of working with the software you need are:
- Theft
- Vandalism
- Virus and malware infestation
- Hacker activity
- IT backlogs
- Need for extensive staff training
- Persistent incompatibility or versioning problems
Web software resolves all of these issues and more, as the program you need is no longer based on a specific machine nor is it comprisable by an inexperienced employee, a spilled coffee and so on and so forth. The protection and expertise that having your web based software is incomparable to the low or non-existent levels you may be used to.
As the market for web software grows, experts have observed most of the companies traditionally considered to be pillars of the machine-based software moving into the new field with courage and determination, which has resulted in a multitude of great products out there for every kind of business or organization.
What kinds of web software are there?
Web software applications are pretty much limitless. From the online banking, booking, purchasing, appointments, and other such uses to business intelligence applications, the possibilities are truly mind-boggling. Web software allows for higher levels of team collaboration, privacy, confidentiality, data security and analysis reliability than ever before. Business intelligence uses in particular have become more popular in the past few years, as worries about allegedly lower data safety online have been replaced by greater customer confidence, while the functionality of web software dedicated to BI has not only caught up with but exceeded that of desktop or laptop based programmes. After all, laptops, flash drives and other physical objects in an office can be stolen, broken or compromised, but dedicated top class servers administered by true professionals are on a completely different plain.