What is Rich Internet Applications?

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) offer a rich, engaging experience that improves user satisfaction and increases productivity. Using the broad reach of the Internet, RIAs can be deployed across browsers and desktops.
Benefits of RIAs
RIAs is the ability to bring online users full-featured functionality compared to this of a desktop application via interactive, intelligent and truly reach interface. RIAs eliminate such limitations of standard Web applications as low HTML interactivity, data entering, processing and retrieval problems, scalability complicities and feedback loops. Moreover, RIAs give enterprises qualitatively new platform for various types of content distribution as they allow allocation of text, images, audio and video data in the most effective and yet convenient, user-oriented way. Combining deep knowledge of technology with commitment to our customers’ business, Vertax is focused on delivering comprehensive RIA. RIA development process at Vertax embraces best analytics, design, development and delivery practices. Our company is experienced in both legacy applications re-architecture and building new RIAs with robust functionality and rich, expressive, client-oriented interface utilizing all types of content and giving true interactivity to users. All our efforts are droved to one aim – enhanced online experience of your customers and prospects, increased users loyalty, leads and sales and thus to continual reinforcement of your Internet and software investments.
RIAs empower your business with solutions that are more:

Consistent – unlike HTML applications that often need several pages reloads for an action completion, RIAs enable seamless and interactively controlled stages transitions that do not distract users from an action end goal.
Targeted – RIAs technologies give excellent background for development of compelling user interfaces that are completely focused on your and your customers needs, having the application design optimized for the purpose it serves.
Responsive – due to specific technologies used, RIAs simplify complex processes (like registration or purchasing), save bandwidth and perform considerably faster than traditional Web applications, thus enhancing customers’ online engagement, guidance and feedback
Intelligent – dynamically adjusting their behavior by capturing, maintaining and using of contextual information, RIAs interactively deliver users exactly what they need and greatly reduce their workload, time and effort spent on targeted actions performance, acting as intelligent customers’ assistants rather than mere tools.
Offer users a richer, more engaging experience.
Keep pace with users’ rising expectations.
Increase customer loyalty and generate higher profits.
Leverage existing personnel, processes, and infrastructure.
Building RIAs with Adobe technologies offers additional benefits. Adobe clients have a long history of delivering consistent, cross-platform experiences. The AdobeFlash Player runtime reaches 98% of Internet-enabled desktops and more than 450 million devices, offering businesses greater reach than with any other client technology available. Adobe AIR, the latest client from Adobe, leverages the power of Flash Player while adding the capability to deploy RIAs directly to the desktop.