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Web Applications are becoming the Business Standard

Posted on: August 8th, 2014 by Walid Abou-Halloun
Categories: Technology and Web Applications. Tags: Applications and Mobile.

Web Applications are becoming the Business Standard

Web applications have come a long way and are now becoming standard way of operating in business rather than installing on premise software from a CD.

Even software giants have had no choice but to join the software in the cloud revolution and migrate away from on premise software installed on servers within businesses to web based software.

Software Giants embrace Web Based Applications

Microsoft has recently made huge inroads into the cloud space by providing its flagship product Microsoft Office in a cloud based version for the first item under its Office 365 Offering. For the first time businesses do not need to pay hundreds of dollars per Microsoft Office license and can get access to the Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint all hosted on Microsoft’s servers for $15 per user per month.

This is a massive shift for Microsoft from selling software to selling a subscription to their products at a much lower rate.

Other software giants like MYOB have also had to shift business models. A competitor Xero launched a web based or online account software to compete directly with MYOB with a web application design and very quickly MYOB lost tens of thousands of customers to Xero. MYOB took some time to respond to this trend and tried a few hybrid options which didn’t do well for them. MYOB has reinvented its online offering with its most recent web based accounting package MYOB essentials.

You Snooze You Lose

An important lesson here is not to wait till your competitors have already taken you customers, look to take the first mover advantage and get web based before your competitors do. Don’t wait like MYOB until a large chunk of their customers had gone elsewhere, act early. Engage a web development company to understand if there are any opportunities in your business to move to the cloud and take advantage of this technology.

If you need advice in the web application space contact your friendly advisers at Complete Cloud.

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