Having your IT systems online allows a company's various departments 'talk' to one another easily, even if they are geographically distant. The Web, it seems, is the perfect platform for such a strategy. We use Active Server Pages. Rather than repeatedly write pages of code, we try to use components. Porting ASP codes into components is almost a no-brainer as we use Visual Basic to code those components.
Components also have the added advantage of speed and scalability.
We chose ASP mainly because it was one of the first systems available. The Web and Singapore There is more demand for big interactive sites in the US, but here in Singapore there's never been much money put into big Internet operations. There aren't many Internet-only companies. They tried a full virtual model but eventually they opened a physical shop as backup, following the traditional model. This helped local people place more trust in the virtual model.