At SibAnts Software, we can convert your Centura Team Developer applications using either client-server (2-tier) or n-tier model.

N-tier is the next step from client-server model and it means that you can do everything you were able to do in client-server solutions plus much, much more.

There's also a price for it: complexity. n-tier development requires more experienced staff and more advanced technologies.

You should choose n-tier architecture if:

• ... you need some powerful features, that are provided by systems like for example J2EE (advanced security, "hot deployment" for 24/7 services, data caching, load balancing, connections pooling and much more);

• ... you have a lot of users and need an improvement of your system performance minimizing network bottlenecks;

• ... you wish to have a web interface for you application;

• ... you want like to separate business logic from the interface to be able to work on them separately;

• ... you would like to have a more standardized application, that is not tied to any specific vendor and that is easier to moved to another environment;

• ... you want to protect business logic from illegal access by running it on special application servers only which are much easier to control;

• ... you want to reduce costs for "per user" licenses using the pooled connections to databases, shared among many users.

You should choose client-server architecture if:

• ... n-tier model will give you no or too little added value and you want to avoid its complexity;

• ... you haven't enough experienced staff to maintain you system;

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