@Henrisha: Agreed, however my main concern is the response of small scale companies to this approach. It's all very well to suggest a certain standard of developing software that in theory would provide the end user with a greater app experience, but if it's not followed across the board then all we get is a collection of similar apps made by different outlets that should provide the same quality but don't because to some the development cost is more than they can expend. Wouldn't that put small scale companies out of the game?  

@ Peter: For BI apps and other large scale apps, especially ones pertaining to high security purposes, do you think in the long run this trade off would benefit the companies making these apps and can small scale providers of solutions sustain this approach of developing software? Would they even be willing to? 

I agree with your view point that a new approach needs to be taken with respect to developing BI apps, however, my concern is how would dividing these apps into smaller chunks, building them separately and integrating them back together again help. Wouldn't that add to the development overhead? Isn't that an even greater risk? Wouldn't that actually increase the development cost? 

 

While breaking down large scale apps into smaller modules maybe beneficial, in my opinion this might not be the best idea for business intelligence applications. Business apps require large scale planning and for the most part encompass a large scope and are critical to the end user. Multiple aspects need to be tied together; therefore chopping functionalities down that are interrelated might have an adverse effect on the overall performance of the application.