Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services provider Fujitsu has launched RapidWebSS, a new software tool that the company claims would make it easy for customers to create their own Web applications.

The Tokyo-based company said that RapidWebSS has been designed mainly for office tasks managed through Microsoft Office Excel, including simple workflow management, customer-relationship management, bid management, and trouble-ticket management, as well as providing supplemental functionality to mission-critical systems.

After installing the product on a PC server, customers can create new Web applications in about a half a day using familiar Excel operations, said Fujitsu.

The company added that for essential office administration functions, application development time can be cut to only one or two hours using the provided templates.

Thirteen kinds of templates are provided: travel expense reports, reimbursement reports, equipment loan request forms, survey forms, health-management sheets, daily/weekly reports, customer-relationship management, bid management, trouble-ticket management, Q&A management, meeting confirmation, schedule arrangement, and discussion boards for meetings.

In addition, the software can flexibly accommodate changes to business process specifications after applications have already been put into use.

Users of Web applications produced using this software can access the applications over the Internet from their own computers to input or browse information, Fujitsu added.

RapidWebSS employs the familiar Excel format to produce new documents including administrative tables, request forms, reports, and application forms.

The new tool helps cut costs for companies as anyone who knows how to use Excel can deploy and operate the software, said Fujitsu.

RapidWebSS can be used in a cloud environment at datacenters operated by the Fujitsu Group as well.

Fujitsu said it also plans to offer the software under a SaaS model in the future.