Building a Rich Internet Application (RIA) creates an advantage for businesses struggling to get their target audience to accept their applications. RIA is user-centric and leverages a more interactive approach to business applications, allowing business users to access virtually everything, on any device, anywhere, with power and performance limited only by the device being used. This storyboard will help IT/development managers and business leaders:

• Build business benefits through the deployment of RIA solutions.
• Improve enterprise productivity through the use of RIA solutions.
• Understand the development tools and frameworks for RIA development.

On the development side, businesses engaged in creating RIAs find them easier to maintain than traditional desktop applications or websites due to the robustness of the development tools available, load balanced applications between client and server, easier deployments, and cross browser/platform capabilities, resulting in less problems for development and IT teams.