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Zona: Web-Based App Use on the Move

• By Scott Bekker
• January 13, 2000

In the study, Zona asked more than 200 IT professionals to categorize the level of deployments and planned deployments of host-based applications through a browser, with browser-based access to corporate intranet-hosted applications as well as to outsourced application service providers (ASPs) included.

The study found that the greatest jump in use is from having no browser-based access to having some. Thirty percent of respondent's to Zona's (www.zonaresearch.com) study do not currently deploy browser-based access to host-based applications, but plan to do so in the next year. The ratio of plans to deployments has not changed since Q3 1999, indicating that conversion plans are proceeding on schedule.

Planned deployment at companies which already heavily use browser-based access is at 30 percent, indicating that major host-based application growth will nearly triple before current plans are exhausted. Additionally, the study indicated that companies with small pilot projects - 1 percent to 10 percent usage - are moving toward more mainstream deployment. Overall, the study suggests that the use of host-based applications is only at one third of its potential for next year. -- Isaac Slepner