- The Future of the Rich Internet
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Friday, 22nd June 2007
The Internet has emerged from obscurity to become a dominant platform for application development and is integral to the idea of Software as a Service (SaaS). Unfortunately the demand to build applications of increasing complexity has continued to outpace the ability of traditional Web applications to represent that complexity and expectation. Utilisation of AJAX technologies attempts to reconcile some of the issues, but frequently the result is a frustrating, confusing or disengaging user experience resulting in unhappy customers, lost sales, and increased costs.
Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, AJAX, enterprise architecture, Flash, Flex, gears, Google, HTML, Information Architecture, JavaScript, Microsoft, MXML, RIA, Rich Internet Applications, SaaS, Service Orientated Architecture, Silverlight, soa, Software as a Service, Usability, User Interface Design, Web 2.0, web services, Workflow, XML