Today, Rich Internet Applications (RIA) allow users to experience a much more engaging & efficient way of interacting with web based applications. Technologies such as Adobe Flex and Flash, allow us to greatly improve the user experience of online applications, as well as substantially enhancing the users tasks completion rate.
What does that mean? At the end of the day, there are a number of key benefits to RIA's. They are:
- Richer Experiences - RIA's excel at providing intuitive user experiences. The extensive range of controls and interactive capabilities available in Flex, provide the tools to deliver expressive experiences not possible in HTML alone.
- Faster - RIA's break away from the request-response paradigm used by traditional HTML web applications. The result being that users can interact with an application in real-time with almost immediate information delivery. The days of click and wait are slowly diminishing.
- Update & maintenance efficiency - When using an RIA, users request the application from a central server. This allows greater control over the application delivery and system updates. So should a change be required on the application, a change is made in one place, thus updating all users of that application.
- Push technology & As all RIA users access a central server, the ability to push out notifications, alerts, updates and ultimately pre-empt user selection / choice is possible. This is all without user intervention or request.
- Server & network efficiency - As RIA's interact with a server to deliver information to a user, server resources and load can be better utilised. Additionally, information sent between client and server is only small bytes of information as opposed to complete web pages.
RIA's can be used to not only make web applications and functions perform more effectively, but also allows for freedom in layout and design compared to typical web based applications.
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