Therefore, however complex the data stored with the information system it is presented as if it were a simple web site showing only the areas that the user is permitted to access. The purpose of Information Server 2001 is to provide common services to multiple web-based information system modules such as document management and calendar management. All organisations have specific business needs and it is also possible to develop custom built modules that take advantage of common information services. Reliable load balancing technologies ensure applications services run without interruption. With transactional and stateless object development methods, web applications can be developed to run across multiple servers to produce outstanding performance results.
Web applications are also easy to deploy with no client software necessary other than a browser.
Web applications are the only opportunity to develop applications that can be used across multiple operating systems as opposed to classic client-server applications that must be developed and tested on each operating system individually. Every product developed by Paragon is assumed to require language independence. In the case of web sites and applications, sites are always divided to maintain structured areas for neutral program code and one or more language dependant code folders. The result of this approach is that most of the code written can be considered neutral and language specific code is separated during development. The neutral code is then 'included' and shared for use within the language specific code.