Advantages of RIA-solutions: more with less

RIAs offer in general a richer user experience as they respond more intuitively and rapidly than standard web-application.
They offer many important advantages:

Fast response: RIAs respond quickly to user's requests and show only the changed data on the page without refreshing the page. This means less waiting time (no refreshing), less bandwidth used for data-traffic from your server to the user and a more efficient use of resources and time both for you and your end-users.

More usability: A rich internet application can help users to fill-in forms and validate the record entered thanks to an immeditate feedback (cursor changes, text changes color, pop-up messages). The user interface is more appealing and clear with visual controls, menus, progress bar, tree structure, imitating the look and feel of desktop applications. The user will feel at ease and hardly notice the difference from a desktop application. This will turn into a higher customer satisfaction.

Flexibility: Rich Internet applications are accessible through the web, from any location: in your office, at home, and can be easily used for online collaboration purposes. Besides they are supported by:

• Any operating system - use it on a Windows, a Mac or even a Linux: our software is platform independent,
• Any web browser - our applications support all Ajax-capable browsers, with no plugins, they run on the web, independently from your operating system and browser (IE, FF, Safari, Opera, etc)
• Different mobile devices - desktop, laptop, palm, mobile phone,etc (device independent)

Secure and stable: The server-side architecture ensures that your application code is hidden from the world and allows to retrieve your data even if your hard-drive burns down. Zero install on user's machines: software updates are deployed centrally. No fuzz with new releases. Just login and every one is on the latest version. Always.

Cost-effective: RIAs can be developed with different tools. Solvedo chooses a number of proven and reliable open-source frameworks, to provide a licence-free software without vendor-lock. We rely on the most recent bug-free Java frameworks and technologies. The use of  frameworks of proven stability and reliability reduces significantly not only the costs, but also the amount of code to be typed, maintained and modified. Less code means less mistakes and less programmers to do the same job. In other words, Rich Internet Applications will cost less and deliver the same, if not better results than a common desktop software or web-application! More is less!

For more information about Rich Internet Application's advantages and usage please read our articles on:

• Enterprise Rich Internet Applications
  
• Rich Internet Applications: where and when?