Understanding N-Tier Applications

The design and deployment of an application fulfilling all or some of the requirements discussed earlier needs a robust and proven platform that can integrate the data and the legacy applications and deliver it over multiple channels, and also make it scalable, portable, and reliable. In this customer-centric e-commerce age, enterprises should be able to update their systems to add new services and constantly work on improving the current services with no or negligible application downtime. All this has to be done to hold on to the customer base and expand it at the same time. It might seem a daunting task to achieve all this in every business application. To achieve these goals and make them easily manageable, ...

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