Dpltest

Answer

In a nutshell, very little.

Bishop Phillips Consulting supplies a browser based and non-browser based client for BPC RiskManager. Both solutions are application server solutions (also called 3-tier application server) – not client-server.

There is no difference in functionality between the browser and non-browser version. The solutions differ in how the client component is served to the client computer desktop.

The browser based client is delivered as an IE 5/6/7/8 browser plug-in (like adobe reader or flash player) while the windows (non-browser) client resides on the user’s desktop (like word or excel). The main argument for using one over the other is that the browser based client is distributed simply by publishing it to a web server web page, while the windows client is distributed by copying it to the client computer. The interface is otherwise the same in both solutions. While the browser client is slightly simpler to distribute and update (just ..→Read More..