The Smart Client Application

With a SQL Server back-end and Microsoft .Net front-end User Interface, the Microsoft Smart Client system enjoys the same application security, reliability, data integrity and scale advantages of the Client-Server method, is fully Internet-enabled like a Browser-based application, and supports the full rich User Interface of MS Windows applications. 

PCA frequently recommends Smart Clients to our customers, primarily because this approach offers the best advantages available to both I/T and End Users, and Smart Client applications are often less expensive to develop than MS Access-based applications (and about half the cost of Browser-based applications).  Learn more about Microsoft Smart Client applications 

Smart Client applications (aka "Rich Internet Applications") look and perform just like Microsoft Office/Desktop applications -- but they are deployed, automatically maintained, and enable real-time SQL Server Database sharing directly over a secure Internet. See example Smart Client applications. A true merger of the desktop and the Internet, Smart Client applications are viewed by many to represent the next major wave in computing platforms.

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