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Rich Internet applications (RIAs) provide web users a richer and more interactive experience. IBM's RIA technologies are easy to deploy into existing IT infrastructure and quickly help organizations improve workplace productivity and customer experience. Explore the portfolio of IBM tools and technologies that support the range of Web 2.0 application life-cycle needs - Connect - Build - Deploy - Manage.
How Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) can help business
Creating Rich Internet applications (RIAs) that run on the Web is helping to transform traditional application development principles. Many businesses are now offering their customers and employees RIAs to provide a richer, more interactive application experience than ever before. As RIAs become mainstream, companies that fail to embrace them run the risk of losing customers to competitors that offer a more robust and intuitive user experience. RIAs offer tangible business benefits that are worth considering if you want to give your customers and employees a richer experience than traditional Web applications allow.
Characteristics of RIAs
- Accessible to the user without a separate installation process
- Supports robust, local application processing on the client side
- Provides a rich, full-featured user interface that closely matches the look and feel of a native desktop GUI
- Allows you to present information more effectively — providing immediate visual feedback
- Can provide greater ease of use — a standard Web browser is used to access the application
- Simplified maintenance — RIAs reside on the application server and there is no client component — update once on your server
RIA technologies from IBM
IBM offers a range of solutions that can help you develop and access RIAs to meet your business needs:
IBM WebSphere Commerce
Provides the ability to create compelling, rich, highly interactive and productive shopping experiences by using the AJAX framework (Dojo) and the online AJAX-based RIA store. Learn more
IBM Lotus Expeditor
Built on the Eclipse rich client platform, Lotus Expeditor software is a universal client platform that supports a range of operating environments and allows users to access rich client applications—including applications based on WebSphere Portal software—from a variety of mobile devices. With Lotus Expeditor, people can also access applications offline. Learn more
IBM WebSphere Portal
Can help you create rich, desktop-like application interfaces, leverage existing assets and rapidly assemble composite applications by providing built-in content and document management solutions and composite application templates. Learn more
IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0
Available for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition, it provides an enterprise-ready toolkit and extends industry-standard Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Service-Oriented-Archtecture (SOA) technology with Web 2.0 and RIA benefits. Learn more
