We have all been hearing about thin clients for a while, and Web applications are closely related. While at the same time benefiting from the reduction of resources spent on the management of enterprise software applications. On today s Wintel machines you need to set an entire day aside just to get a new program installed properly. And that does not count time spent rebooting Windows over and over. But that is today s monolithic software on old-fashion personal computers, not tomorrow s sleek component software on sleek, new network computers.
Web applications require a minimum of setup and hassle on thin clients.
So what does this mean for a title company. We now have several title companies putting their title plants on the Internet. But let us take a closer look at how this comes about using a Web based flood-zone data application as an example. Web access to flood-zone data will help banks approve loans faster. And in today s mortgage business, the speed of transactions is essential.