WINDOWS DESKTOP APPLICATIONS
A desktop application runs on a workstation and provides a rich and interactive user interface. Data can reside on a fileserver (e.g. in an Access database) or on a dedicated database server (e.g. SQLServer), or even on the internet. Aztec uses Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, both of which provide sophisticated and powerful tools for creating desktop applications.

BROWSER BASED APPLICATIONS
Aztec uses Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology to create database driven internet/intranet applications similar to windows desktop applications, but running in a web browser. While the user interface might not be as rich or interactive, application deployment and support is much easier since users do not require any custom software on their desktops, just their web browser.

WEB SERVICES
The Internet is evolving into a more distributed and integrated environment. Web servers have long provided content in web pages, but increasingly they can now process and provide data to other servers or desktop applications. This allows businesses to share data, integrate processes and offer more comprehensive services to their customers. Web Services are server-based components that encapsulate business processes, manipulate external data and are accessible over the Internet via an XML interface.

MOBILE SOFTWARE
Handheld computers allow organisations to provide mobile workers with data capture applications and access to corporate data while out of the office. At Aztec we have focused on the PocketPC platform. Mobile applications are developed using the familiar Visual Studio toolset, and data can be managed on the handheld using a powerful slimmed-down version of SQLServer.

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