1C:Enterprise. Functionality of the business applications
This section describes 1C:Enterprise business applications' functionality (or 'applied solutions' in 1C:Enterprise platform terms) produced by 1C Company (www.1c.ru).
The unique composition of business functionality, applied solutions development and administration means, software integration and data exchange tools provided by 1C:Enterprise platform offers outstanding possibilities for rapid application development (RAD) and drastically lowers development and maintenance costs. This caused a whole industry for creation of business applications based on the platform to appear across former USSR territory.
Business applications created by 1C Company and its partners on the base of 1C:Enterprise platform cover many business areas. In very general, all business applications can by divided into two big groups: produced by 1C company and those produced by the Company's partners.
A distinguishing feature of boxed business applications made by 1C is their functional compositions being thoroughly worked out. Standard solutions contain only those functions which are really required for a significant part of enterprises. This allows making them rather compact and easy-to-use, providing direct correspondence between legal system and business specific and the solutions, also to maintain and develop them further. Besides, this makes possible for them to be used by the Company's partners when developing their own business applications.
Vertical applied solutions are created by 1C Company's partners for automation of some branches or fields of activities of enterprises. Presence of the single platform and common development methodology allows developing such solutions using boxed solutions from 1C as a basis, adding only required components aimed to a particular branch or an enterprise specificity. This provides quick development and introduction of business applications due to using proven functionality implemented in the boxed applied solutions; this also reduces costs of vertical solutions – the expenditures are significantly lower in comparison to development of a business application from scratch.
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