Rich Internet Applications

The best of both worlds:
Desktop functionality with all the benefits of web-based infrastructure, leveraging existing investments and bridging the gap between disparate systems.

What is a Rich Internet Application (RIA)?

RIAs are the next generation of internet based applications that are more engaging, more interactive, more intuitive than both desktop and conventional web-based applications.

They improve:

  • User Productivity
  • User satisfaction
  • User loyalty

They reduce:

  • deployment costs
  • maintenance costs
  • band-width costs
  • training costs

Rich Text Applications:

"provide a very viable technology capable of addressing a broad range of Internet, intranet and corporate application needs without requiring wholesale replacement of existing Web application investments.

- Empower companies to create wholly new kinds of engaging, innovative user experiences and applications with features or capabilities that in most cases would be extremely difficult or impossible for a developer to create using traditional Web technologies.

- Deliver a variety of substantial business benefits including: highly qualified lead generation, increased sales, increased brand loyalty, longer stays on sites, more frequent repeat visits, reduced bandwidth costs, reduced support calls, and deepened customer relationships.

- Offer the potential for a fundamental shift in the experience of Internet applications, leading to applications that come closer to delivering on the promise of the Internet."

Excerpt from IDC White Paper on RIA's