Enterprise applications often need to “push” information to the users. The purpose of the push is typically to inform users in a more timely manner without waiting the users to pull the information down themselves, by using the application itself.
Email is by far the most common notification method. Applications are typically capable of sending
email notifications from the application itself but when other notification methods such as pagers, etc. are needed, 3rd party software and hardware solutions are utilized.
Sending an email or a page from an application is easy enough technically in isolation, but there are
significant challenges when thinking in the enterprise context:
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