Why use AJAX in the enterprise?
It appears that Forrester Research Inc may have upset a few AJAX people out there by claiming that power users are less than impressed with AJAX in the enterprise (see “AJAX-powered Web apps disappoint power users, Forrester says“). That’s not really news at Altio., for a long time we have been aware that the Enterprise power user can be extremely demanding.
Creating a Enterprise application for the browser requires the following at a minimum
- Responsive user interface
- Ability to work with large volumes of data
- Provide all the features expected from a desktop application, which probably means interacting with other desktop applications.
For more information see Gary’s blog at http://thompson-web.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-use-ajax-in-enterprise.html
