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Driven by factors such as globalization and changing business
demands, modern enterprises have been forced to become
increasingly distributed. In turn, they must support an
ever-growing number of remote offices across the country and
often around the world. Furthermore, enterprises need to make
information and functionality available to workers at client
sites, in hotel rooms, at home, and in remote offices, even if
they are not connected to a network or the Internet.
A distributed architecture for data and applications can
facilitate worker productivity irrespective of employees'
location or connectivity.
"MEGH e-BIZ. COM Pvt. Ltd "
has implemented this distributed
application which helps the user to log in regardless of network
or Internet connectivity and provide real-time access to locally
stored data.
Distributed application has helped to achieve :
Increased productivity. Distributed application
environments allow employees to work effectively from any
location, even if they are not connected to the Internet or
other network. To be productive, many knowledge workers need
full application functionality and full data sets.
Distributed applications also mitigate expensive downtime for
remote workers while limiting the impact of central system
failures and planned outages. Distributed applications also
enable remote offices in rural areas and around the globe, which
may have only intermittent and/or slow access, to achieve a
consistent level of productivity.
More effective remote and mobile workers.
Distributed
applications don't just allow mobile and remote employees to do
more; they enable these workers to do things they would not be
able to do otherwise. These users should be able to perform the
same functions, whether they are using horizontal applications,
such as email and calendaring, more specific applications, such
as sales force automation (SFA) or CRM, or even
vertical-specific applications. Providing full access to these
applications enables mobile workers to be more productive
because they can work when traveling or when otherwise not
connected.
Cost savings. Distributed computing does not obviate
organizations' investments in existing infrastructure. A prime
goal of most distributed application environments is to extend
the functionality of applications. Savings may also be realized
by allowing enterprises to continue using existing hardware.
Rather than investing in new machines to guarantee wireless
connections and the like, organizations can preserve capital
expenditures, such as desktop PCs in branch offices and notebook
computers used by business travelers.
Improved business decisions.
One of the biggest problems
mobile and remote users face is being "out of the loop."
However, distributed application environments allow them to
work with full data sets even when they are not connected.
Workers in many different places can also work from the same
data, preventing unnecessary information gaps.
Flexibility and scalability.
Organizations familiar with
the standards and technology that enable distributed systems
will be well positioned to extend information and functionality
with greater ease. Moreover, as geographic and time limitations
become less significant, expansion becomes less taxing on IT
infrastructure.
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