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The need for applications just keeps on growing

After 12 years in the industry experience has always told us to adapt and modify strategies in your business in order to survive and thrive. Monochrome are not adverse to taking on new challenges and looking at the direction our industry is going in order to give the best service to our customers. Nothing could demonstrate this with such clarity as in the explosion in web applications requirements. We have always worked historically in application development using what we believe is the best tools for the job. Our expertise in this field has enabled us to work with Adobe and over the last 3 years with Microsoft which has given us a fantastic insight into the direction these business feel what are deemed Rich Internet Applications have been heading.

No one can deny that the explosion in the mobile application market has dominated the media of late Google, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft have all moved to embrace this space.

It is important to stress however that web application are making a name for themselves as important tools for both consumer and business alike. Monochrome for one have seen a massive increase in it requests for the design development and delivery of these applications.

Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers, and the convenience of using a web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity, as is the inherent support for cross-platform compatibility. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auctions,wikis and many other functions.

Another reasons organisations invest heavily in Web applications is to empower their employees and build an extended enterprise. Increased mobility means organisations have to think about providing employees easy access to corporate applications, regardless of their location. Greater workforce mobility, growing adoption of mobile technology for business use; and recent improvements in centralised visibility, management, and control of mobile costs, have rendered mobility an inexpensive and important strategic asset for many organisations.

Many companies are investing in web applications including

The needs to deploy these application quickly and efficiently has meant picking a development environment that is efficient and cost effective, Ruby on Rails meets this requirement and a main reason why Monochrome have considered this a significant area of expansion for it’s business. With our experience in UI design and our Agile approach to working on projects, Ruby on Rails has been a perfect marriage for our business.

It’s success has been proven in the work we have done with our client Premier Foods and Great Little Ideas a case study that demonstrates how Monochrome can help reduce costs through choosing tools that significantly reduce development times and allow your business to have confidence in the way budgets are being spent.

We have some interesting announcements to make over the next few weeks so keep checking on what we are up to. Please feel free to follow us on Twitter or if you have a requirement get in touch by phone or through our website.

Posted by Adrian Munn on 24 May 2011