Web-Based Apps

• Online Travel Expense Reporting Takes Off

  The travel expense reporting process used to be a manual, time-consuming, and inefficient process for most small and mid-size businesses. Technology may hold the key to a smoother landing.
  Mary O. Foley

• Host Everything: The On-Demand Dashboard

  The latest entry into the hosted software market is the on-demand dashboard, which enables businesses to reap the benefits of data integration from multiple sources, generate customized views, and automate reporting.
  Caroline Waxler

• Getting Your Business Ready for Mobile 2.0

  The mobile Internet is on a fast trajectory that will sooner than later overshadow the Internet as we know it. Is your business ready to compete in the age of the mobile Internet? Here are ways that businesses can prepare.
  Renee Oricchio

• Microsoft’s Online Services – What’s In It for You?

  There's a lot more to software as a service than merely writing documents online. Microsoft is giving small and mid-size businesses what they need.
  Anita Campbell

• Technology to Solve the Boring Meeting Dilemma

  Using collaboration tools and Web conferencing can cut staff meeting times and the doldrums of sitting through yet another PowerPoint presentation.
  Todd Wasserman

• Beyond the Hype of Web 2.0

  This new category of tech -- involving collaboration, simplicity, and Web interfaces -- has gotten its share of build-up. But some apps really are useful for small and mid-size businesses.
  Peter Suciu

• Ruby on Rails: Making Web Programming Easier

  This open source Web application is growing in popularity among small and mid-size businesses because it can help you create applications with less code and hassles than a lot of other tools.
  Marc Saltzman

• Which Web-Mail Program Is Best for Business?

  A comparison of Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail to determine how they measure up in critical areas for business usage, from storage to ease of use.
  Damon Brown

• Pros and Cons of ASPs for Small Business

  Application service providers can replace traditional software and make sophisticated applications available to small businesses, but are they secure?
  Peter Suciu

• Do You Need A Standard ‘Build’ for All Your Business Computers?

  There are benefits to having centralized and standardized software to provide your small business workforce a homogeneous environment, and there are also risks.
  John Gartner

• Renting Your Software Online

  Microsoft, Google and others are battling to provide software applications over the Web. Here's how your business can benefit.
  Ramon Ray

• The Browser Wars Are Back

  Internet Explorer faces stiff competition from such upstarts as Firefox, Safari, and Konqueror.
  David Thomas