Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...

The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

Facebook’s recent unveiling of Home, a software suite for Android phones (and soon tablets), offered more evidence that apps rule the mobile world. Just a few years ago, usage of apps lagged Web ...

People often use the terms ‘web design’ and ‘development’ interchangeably; however, these phrases have two different meaning. In simple terms, web designers handle the front-end of the website, ...

The buzz about Web services has turned to discussions about the added security risks they pose. According to Gartner, Web services is about “moving application integration into firewall-evading ...

A Website and a Web Application need web access and employ the same coding paradigms. A website is a group of interconnected web pages, but a web application is a piece of software that is accessible ...