Introducing Business Applications
Business applications—sometimes also referred to as line-of-business (LOB) applications—are core applications critical to the running of a business. Businesses the world over rely on software to function, much of which has been custom developed to capture and support the unique processes and needs of the businesses—without this software, they would not be able to function effectively, if at all.
Business applications tend to have the following key features in common:
- The ability to access and maintain data in a central data store
- Client/server communication
- A workflow providing a structured means of entering/modifying data
- A user interface providing an efficient means of entering/modifying data
- Business rules ...
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