It’s a given fact that web is already a platform for doing business efficiently and quickly.
In this era of high competition, businesses have to deliver powerful feature-rich solutions that improve efficiencies and enhance the value to existing as well as new customers.
Rich internet Applications (RIAs) is the right step in that direction.
With a promise to augment interactivity, productivity, usability that is lacking in traditional web-deployed applications, RIAs have brought about a significant swing towards rich client model for enterprise application development and deployment in the recent years.
The crucial difference between RIAs and other Internet applications is the amount of interaction in the interface. With RIAs enterprise applications look, feel and behave like desktop applications, but are run over the web. Naturally, they provide greater opportunities to deliver user satisfaction.
RIA’s provide benefits that are usually associated with desktop applications. Hence, when used appropriately they can provide users with a rich user experience.
RIAs offer more potential to design better user experiences. RIAs user interfaces are not only better in terms of the looks but are also faster, engaging and usable.
RIAs provide for more versatile data presentations in comparision to traditional page based HTML technologies. For example, statistical data such as charts, graphs etc can be viewed in a graphical format making the information it easy and convenient for the users to understand it.
RIAs enables implementation of user friendly interactive features that provide interaction directly within the page such as tool tips, front end validation for input fields, drag-and-drop, in-line editing, controls such as sortable tables & list, keyword suggestion, and other elements that mimic the experience of desktop applications.
Unlike traditional Web applications, which refresh the whole page, RIAs refresh only the part of the screen that has changed. Coupled with the ability to pre-fetch data, this not only gives the user a faster and better experience, but also minimises the band-width usage.
However, a rich user interface does not automatically guarantee usability. For this a good understanding of usability and interaction design is necessary.
The i.Realities RIA design team consists of a very talented group of User Experience Architects, Interaction Designers and Graphic Designers, who have garnered years of experience in building and delivering complex Rich Internet Applications for enterprise companies.
We have the capabilities to deliver rich internet applications on various technologoies such as Flash, Ajax, and Java, using standard Internet and Web protocols.
To know how to transform your applications into Rich Internet applications or if you want to see a working demo of RIA Applications, just drop us a mail.
“Originally coined by Macromedia in a 2002 paper, RIAs have since grown into a widely accepted technology and is now the direction of choice for many new web development projects.”
Adobe Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive RIA applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.
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