The Software-a-a-Service movement continues to gain momentum, as more and more organizations build web based services to meet specific business or operational needs. In the past day alone new customers have signed-up at DataWeb and built applications to manage youth baseball activities in the Midwest; Fire Department resources in California and a new generation of retail activities for presenting important product information to consumers using a variety of mobile devices.
Each of the sites above will likely be used by many thousands of users; from little league baseball coaches to fireman in every city and town in the State of California; to retail shoppers across the globe. Each site will engage its audience in new ways, delivering value to the broader community. These sites show that the web is not only the playground of large companies or highly trained workforces. The door is open to innovation, allowing those with creativity and understanding in a particular area to engage successfully and profitably.
Just as the reference to Web 2.0 became the benchmark for encouraging the “democratization” of the Internet because anyone could make contributions to online content portals; a new generation of web development tools makes possible two additional breakthroughs. First; new tools are available that allow people of moderate business skills to build web sites of significant capability and, secondly, whole new business models are being designed that take advantage of these new tools and new possibilities.
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This is good news - a simple way to migrate Access data to the web or create a database application without being constrained to a local computer. I haven't seen anything like this. The other alternatives are slow, expensive and require a fair amount of development time. I am excited that DataWeb makes the process so easy at a very reasonable cost.
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