From blue-chip companies to one-person start-ups, the Internet and its related technologies have provided new opportunities and new ways of doing business. Web-based systems have enabled organizations to provide maintainable, secure global access to their data and applications. The ease of deployment over the web has made such applications very attractive for enterprise systems.

Any device which has a web browser can potentially utilize an internet/intranet application. These applications are no longer restricted to the traditional PC user running Windows, but are also available for PDAs and mobile phones. The introduction of Web Services has widened the scope of web-based applications by allowing other systems to interact with them.

Tessella has acquired wide ranging experience of internet and intranet applications, and the majority of our work has a web-based component. We have worked on a variety of web-based systems which have fulfilled many different business roles, including systems such as sophisticated workflow systems that help organizations manage their day to day business, and web front ends to large corporate and scientific databases. We also have experience of developing distributed applications deployed over the internet such as climateprediction.net, the world's largest climate prediction experiment.