Business Software, Web Applications and Desktop Software compared
Business Software, Web Applications and Desktop Software compared
Article by Kip Goldhammer
It has been some time that an argument has been doing rounds about the replacement of desktop application by web applications in the business software category. Although, web applications are more versatile and flexible, desktop software and applications are not easily replaced considering the issues of security and replacement of legacy systems that have been in place for some time now. The shift if it ever happens is not only a technical issue but also a marketing and business issue. A lot of information is available on a website that discusses these issues under various heads and articles.
A desktop application is localized on computer or a local area network where it is deployed whereas a web application is delivered to users across the globe using a web server connecting through the internet. Usage of a web browser as a client is finding more and more acceptance today and is being used in many applications and off the shelf products to deliver better GUI’s. This has led to the popularity of web applications. It is very important to understand the delivery systems on the internet to find suitability of converting a desktop application into a web application. Applications integrating search engine optimization techniques have become more popular in businesses that are marketing or sales oriented, while a manufacturing unit may find it less appealing to convert the existing application into a web application.
A few points come to light in comparing a desktop application and a web application.
Accessibility: A desktop application is accessible only on a local computer, whereas a web application is available anywhere across the globe.
Maintenance & Upgrades: Web application need less or no maintenance since they are installed only once on the web server, whereas desktop applications need to be deployed individually on each computer. Upgrades and other compatibility issues are mostly taken care of by the webmasters of the hosting company unlike desktop applications. The maintenance of a web application is of prime importance, since the business puts all its eggs into a single basket, uptime is not only necessary but crucial to the application.Security: Working online has its own set of risks like hacking and virus threats. The risk is higher compared to a desktop computer, since a malfunction of the desktop can result in loss of partial data. The crash of a web server can result in consequences beyond the control of a business.
Cost: Running a web application involves recurring cost of web space and bandwidth use, whereas, the use of desktop has a one time cost and has been known to cheaper over a period of time.
Connectivity: The reliability of web applications is based on connectivity, although they can be used from anywhere across the world, connectivity speeds and bandwidth regulation may render it useless in some areas. Failure of internet connection from the business end or the web server end can cause unwarranted delays. Critical applications may suffer as a result of these interruptions in service.
Slower: Web application in comparison to desktop application run slower due to transfer of data through the internet. The speed of connectivity and bandwidth usage may be major factors.The popularity of web applications is only due to the accessibility despite their limited functionality.
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Flexera Software Announces New AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment Tool for Planning Migrations to User-Centric Computing and
Flexera Software Announces New AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment Tool for Planning Migrations to User-Centric Computing and
Article by RealWire
New Application Readiness solution accelerates migrations to Microsoft, Citrix, VMware and other virtual environments while increasing success rate and reducing costs
Maidenhead, UK – April 17, 2012 – Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced today the launch of AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment. An essential migration planning tool, AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment accelerates enterprises’ migration to user-centric computing and a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) while reducing the cost of achieving desktop virtualization objectives.
Vendor-Agnostic Solution for Virtualization PlanningVDI promises to yield substantial cost savings and dramatically improve IT resource utilization. However migrating to virtual desktops is a time-consuming, costly and risky undertaking. It often requires assessing thousands of computers to determine good virtualization candidates and developing a migration plan – often without good visibility into how users and desktop applications consume resources like network bandwidth, storage, CPU and memory.
“Poor user satisfaction and user uptake are the primary reasons that IT desktop virtualization projects fail,” said Maureen Polte, Flexera Software’s vice president of product management. “To maximize the likelihood of virtualization success, all VDI projects should be supported with a thorough assessment of users’ current application usage and likelihood of success. AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment will be critical in delivering those assessments, and providing decision support.”
AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment provides essential, vendor-agnostic planning automation capabilities. An easy-to-install virtual appliance monitors key system behaviors of computers, users and applications, gathering a complete application inventory, collecting in-depth information on each application such as CPU performance, online/offline access, input/output and memory utilization, to reveal virtualization suitability and the complexity of virtualizing that application.
The system then generates a user-friendly suitability assessment, ranking computers and users based on virtualization suitability into low-, medium- and high-complexity groups based on usage patterns and environmental conditions. To assist enterprise architects in making better-informed virtualization decisions, the assessment includes detailed and summary reports that can be filtered based on a variety of attributes to gain richer insight into the data and identify the desktops, applications and users that have high resource requirements.
AdminStudio Virtual Desktop assessment is customizable, allowing enterprises to tailor the assessment to their unique environments.
With AdminStudio Virtualization Pack – A Complete Virtualization Migration SolutionAdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment is designed to work in conjunction with AdminStudio Virtualization Pack as part of a comprehensive Application Readiness solution to leverage the power of virtualization for applications and desktops. AdminStudio Virtualization Pack addresses application virtualization, a key component of any successful VDI implementation, by providing visibility into which applications can be converted to a broad range of application virtualization technologies. Moreover, it automatically converts desktop applications into multiple virtualization formats.
“With Virtual Desktop Assessment we are creating a new category of application compatibility. It’s more than just determining whether an application will work in the virtualized environment. You must have a high level of confidence that the user will have a good experience with their virtual desktop,” said Polte. “If you’re only looking at application compatibility – you’re setting yourself up for potential failure and putting your desktop transformation projects at risk. User and device compatibility must be part of the analysis to ensure the assessment is comprehensive and you’re making informed decisions.”
AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment is a new member of Flexera Software’s family of Application Readiness solutions, which include AdminStudio, Application Compatibility Pack, Application Virtualization Pack, App Portal and Workflow Manager. Together, AdminStudio Suite delivers the industry’s only end-to-end strategic Application Readiness solution for migrations to Windows 7, application virtualization, cloud computing and day-to-day application packaging operations.
AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment will be generally available in Q2, 2012.
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