What types of Web applications can use databases?
Virtually any Web application that would benefit from having access to data and information stored in a database can use a database, as long as the Web-application development environment supports the type of database access required. Some typical business examples of Web applications that use databases include online banking and securities trading, online stores, shopping malls and catalogs, customer services, product information, online technical support, real estate advertising, recruiting, and specialty product sales. Intranet Web database applications also abound. Organizations have found that database-based Web applications can integrate many of the functions of corporate MIS systems and groupware products. The resultant proliferation of information sharing, improved operating efficiencies, and improved employee productivity have paid for the cost of development several times over.
