1. Section S4, Group 2
FT13399 Adhithi Aji
FT13400 Aditi Verma
FT13401 Agneeswaran Vallinayagam
FT13402 Akash Agamya
FT13403 Akshay Malhotra

2.  Introduction & Uses
 Evolution
 Mainframe Applications -1st generation software for back office operations
 Desktop Applications - Introduction of personal computers
 Web Based Applications - Rise of the internet
 Current Trends
 Web2.0 - Collaboration & Networking
 Mobile Applications
 Service Oriented Architecture - The way forward for enterprise applications
 Cloud Computing – Software as a Service: Opportunities and Challenges

3.  Application, is computer software designed to help people perform specific
tasks or certain activities making their lives easy in terms of time and efforts.
 There are many types of application software
 Enterprise Applications:
 Are typically business-oriented tools such as online payment processing,
customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning,
business intelligence, project management, collaboration, human
resource management etc. E.g. SAP Business Suite, Oracle EBS, Microsoft
Office etc
 Educational Applications:
 Primary purpose of which is teaching or self learning e.g. Encyclopaedia,
Dictionary etc.

4.  Simulation Applications:
 simulate weather conditions, electronic circuits, chemical reactions,
atomic reactions, even biological processes and many more e.g. Scientific
simulators, Battlefield simulators, Simulation Games
 Media Development Applications: Used in digital-animation, digital audio
and video composition, Image organizing, Sound and video editing , Game
development tool and many more...
 Product Engineering Applications: Used primarily in manufacturing industry
for product and quality design. Ex. CAD, CAM etc.

5.  High-end commercial machines
 Used for computing intensive back end data processing
 Very expensive – high upfront costs
 IBM – A hundred years old company has led the evolution of mainframes.

6.  The Programma 101, released in 1965, was the first commercial "desktop
computer“
 Windows brought the computers to the masses – into your homes
 Computing for education and leisure – MS Office, Computer Games, Multimedia

7.  An application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an
intranet
 Webmail
 Online retail sales
 Online auctions

8.  Web 2.0 is a concept that takes the network as a platform for information
sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World
Wide Web
 Social networking sites
 Blogs
 Wikis
 Video sharing sites
 Mashups

9.  Applications for low-power handheld devices
 Money Transfer
 Location-Based Services
 Mobile Search
 Mobile Browsing
 Mobile Health Monitoring
 Mobile Payments
 Near Field Communications (NFC)
 Mobile Advertising
 Mobile Instant Messaging

10.  Software in the form of interoperable services
 Dance group vs. Orchestra
 The web acts as an information highway
 From ‘Services of Internet’ to ‘Internet of Services’
 Greater flexibility, reduced costs
 From Customisation to Configuration
 Challenges: Ownership issues and Quality of Service

11.  An offspring of SOA
 All software stored on public servers
 Available on Pay-per-hour and Pay-per-user basis
 Reduced upfront costs for users
 High scalability
 Economies of Scale for service providers
 Data Security is a challenge: Trust and Compliance