Internet Based Business Applications

The Internet has no location difficulties allowing contact and interaction with many people. The biggest winner in this is business. Business members can now communicate across the country and the world through their own internet based business application. Describing exactly what an internet based business application is, can be difficult and best described using probable business scenarios.

Business Gone National

A medium sized business over the past few years has expanded and gone national. As a result, to reduce the amount of middle management, the higher levels of management have also spread across the country making transfer of information difficult at times. This particular business also runs a sponsorship programme where currently applications are paper based and sent using "snail mail". The main obstacle with the sponsorship programme is that for a sponsorship application to be approved it must first be approved by each level of management and since management is not centralised, the delivery and communication about applications is lengthy and can sometimes be lost.

Internet Business Application proposal

The following is a very brief overview for a proposed solution but identifies the key points required for this internet based application. A proposed internet business application to help combat this problem would require the internet business application to 

• Allow people to apply for sponsorship online
• Store applications in a database
• Force each application to go through the approving process
• Report on the success rate and amount of money or merchandise sponsored

After an online submission of a sponsorship application, the internet business application would allow each level of management to have their own login details allowing them to view their sponsorship inbox upon successful login. The status of the application is preserved at all times so that only the correct level of management can see the application. When viewing an application management is able to approve or decline the application and specify reasons. If declined, the reason and a default rejection email is sent to the applicant.

When performing audits or reviews, any level of management can quickly select the reporting option which will display a printer friendly page that displays a variety of details about the sponsorship programme in the form of text, tables and graphs.

The benefits of developing a custom internet business application is that the application is capable of evolving with the demands of the business meaning reports can be customised and the application can be further developed to combat other location based information transfer issues.