Rich Internet applications
About 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 offer organizations a proven, cost-effective way to deliver modern applications with real business benefits:
- Offer users a richer, more engaging experience.
- Keep pace with users' rising expectations.
- Increase customer loyalty and generate higher profits.
- Reach 98% of Internet-enabled desktops.
- Leverage existing personnel, processes, and infrastructure.
Designer/developer workflow
Discover how integration across the spectrum of Adobe technologies can offer valuable efficiencies in application development.
Getting started
Learn how to educate your organization about the benefits of RIAs.
Building RIAs
Use Adobe tools, clients, frameworks, servers, and services as a complete solution for building RIAs, or use them in combination with other familiar web technologies.
Tools
Clients
Frameworks
Servers and services
Featured downloads
Adobe Flex 3
Get started building RIAs with the Free Adobe Flex 3 SDK or a free 60-day trial of Flex Builder 3.
Adobe AIR
Get started developing applications for Adobe AIR with these downloads.
Analyst report
The Business Case for Rich Internet Applications
"Forrester's research and conservative models show that well-designed RIAs can produce eye-popping results that can help prove the value of current investments and make the case for future RIA projects."
— Ron Rogowski, March 12, 2007
