Application Tier
Flurry of activity be it for ERP applications, SCM applications, or Web application servers
Difficult data management / data access problems being addressed by many ad-hoc solutions. Many of these problems revolve around:
- Reducing number of trips to the database server
- Offloading the database server
- Mapping of business objects to relational model
- Load balancing between multiple application servers
- managing consistency of data among multiple copies