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How many times have you seen a portal launched with the idea that you have been thinking about? Or a feature that you thought would be great has been launched by another portal? It is not just great idea that defines success! It depends very much on how soon you can take the idea to the market. Especially, if you are a web based startup, winning in the market place requires your development team to put the portal on the market ahead of the competition. And yes, you need to do this with bootstrapped budget. While reduced time to market and limited budget are business challenges, Web Startups also have different technology challenges to face. Not all businesses have in-house capability to meet the technical challenges. In fact, many of the novel ideas for web based startups have come from people with non-technical background. This paper attempts to provide an overview on the critical technical factors to be considered in launching a web portal and discusses the advantages of using Open Source Frameworks to meet the business and technology challenges. Critical technical Factors Security, Maintainability and Usability are three critical technical factors to be considered while launching a web based portal. Security: Be aware of the latest web application vulnerabilities and make sure that the application architecture provides the necessary protective mechanisms to guard against the web application vulnerabilities. Protecting customer data is a critical factor and the businesses should ensure that the data transacted and stored in the portal are secure against any web application vulnerabilities. Also, the application architecture should provide the ability to adapt against emerging vulnerabilities in the future. Maintainability: The people in the development team are subject to change. You can’t have any one in the team granted for the business. Men may come Men may Go, But the business has to go on forever! You may be outsourcing or insourcing the development. In any case, the code developed by must be maintainable not just by the programmers who developed but by any other programmer. Usability: The key winning proposition of a web based portal is on the usability. The standards and technology for usability change continuously. Most of the new technological changes are now happening on the Usability. The architecture that we choose should be able to implement the latest usability standards using cutting edge technologies to keep up to the market. With the bootstrapped budget, necessity to launch the portal with reduced time to market, Startups don’t have enough time, in some cases, enough capability, in evaluating and finalizing a custom application architecture that would meet the business and technology challenges i.e help development teams develop a portal with robust architecture with reduced time and restricted budget. Solution Open Source Frameworks for Rich Internet Application Development is the key solution to the business and technology challenges faced by the startups. A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications and web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in web application development. For example, many frameworks provide libraries for database access frameworks and session management, and they often promote code reuse. The frameworks offer robust architectures to take care of security by the built-in security libraries for managing web application vulnerabilities; Offers a defined standards for development with documentation on the architecture implementation and hence enables maintainability by different programmers; Evolves based on the latest technology standards through the contribution of the community using the frameworks and hence always has updated versions for implementing latest technology trends; Allows rapid application development by eliminating the overheads in application development. Backed by the support and contributions of the worldwide technology community, developer patronage and proven implementations, Open Source Frameworks have matured architecture that will meet the technology and business challenges. With in-built utilities, libraries, widgets and other necessary development support components, it reduces the time required to implement a feature. Thus helping the start-ups launch the portal with reduced time to market, within budget backed with a robust architecture. Choosing the right development framework, matching the needs and budget will ensure half the success for the start-ups. Stay Tuned for the next topic on how to choose the right framework. About the Author:
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How Open Source Frameworks help startups reduce time to market?
