New tools and development environments that build open, scalable, robust, and adaptable Intranet applications are needed.
Transactive content means content-based applications with application processing logic built in.
Another transactive content application could include ordering corporate collateral items from a company store or training videos online from one's desktop. These are the applications that will be vital to utilizing Intranets to their fullest capacity. Vendors are beginning to introduce Web-centric, transactive development tools and solutions. Some provide solutions to separate application processing between clients and servers using a partition, component, application courier, or gateway approach. All offer solutions to ensure that Intranet clients maintain fast response times, and that Intranet or Web servers do not get overloaded processing tasks they were never designed to support.