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Inside This Issue 2 Understanding C/S 8 Marketplace Trends 9 Impact on our Practice 10 Futures 11 Sources of More Info Lite Bytes BSC’s Topical Technology White Papers Volume 1 Issue 1 November 1994 Understanding and Applying Client / Server Technologies C lient / Server technology is making a significant impact on the packaged software and custom systems projects with which BSC is involved today, and that this trend will continue for the next 3 - 5 years. It is important that BSC seniors and managers understand the underlying concepts of this technology and its differences from traditional application architectures. Executive Overview The growing maturity of client/server technology is beginning to have significant impact on BSC projects. Our clients are asking us what it means to their business, and we in turn are recommending it for both packaged application software and custom developed solutions. Client / Server models and practices are the current state-of-the-art in creating flexible and powerful solutions. As an outgrowth of this new model, organizations can refocus their culture by providing users access to information whenever and wherever they need it, dynamic to their market demands. In doing so, they are no longer depending solely on the traditional “centralized” paradigm in which all of the processing in an application system occurs on a single computer. Instead, the processing is distributed to multiple computer systems, each of which is designed and optimized to perform a given component of the processing. This creates a scenario in which the server is not the computer, nor is the client. Rather, the combination of all the resources on the network is the “computer”. In a client/server system, the user interface (UI) processing is most often performed by a client workstation or PC at which the user works. The more sophisticated processing of information, however, is performed by a specialized database or application ser