Beyond the Thin Client: Why a Smart Client ERP Solution May Be a Smarter Choice

White Paper

Description:

Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to deliver robust, usable, and efficient business applications that meet the increasing expectations of business users and executives who need contextual access to business data and tools to help them stay competitive. These applications must also be flexible enough to enable the company to adapt to ever-changing market conditions and demands.

Over the last decade, browser-based “thin client” applications have come to dominate the enterprise application space due to their ease of deployment, updating, and administration. While thin client applications address IT deployment issues, they typically fail to meet end-user expectations in terms of robustness, performance, and usability. Given that user adoption is critical to the success of enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects, today's organizations must place high importance on the user experience in selecting an ERP solution.

This white paper compares and contrasts the two primary alternatives to thin clients—enhanced thin clients that use technologies such as ActiveX, AJAX, and ASP.NET and the new generation of “smart clients”—and examines the differentiating characteristics that could impact your ERP implementation.

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