Vaadin let you build consumer grade applications with business system budget

You might not hear much about them, but the reality of software development is that a significant share of all the coding goes into internal business applications that only employees, partners or customers of that particular company ever sees. A special challenge for everyone developing such applications is that employees used to web applications like Facebook and Youtube are starting to expect something similar from the software they use at work.

What do you do when your boss wants you to make something that lives up to those expectations with a budget that is just a fraction of what goes into a successful consumer app? It would of course help to use a suitable framework that takes care of generic stuff so that you can concentrate on the details that are unique to the actual application you’re creating.

Wouldn’t it be nice to use the same language and development environment which the existing back-end functionality is based on? What about running all the business logic on the server even though the application is used through a browser, without having to worry about browser technologies?

My presentation at Codemotion Milano has been focused on what it takes to build consumer grade applications with the budget of a business system. I explained how the open-source Vaadin framework can help you with that.