Monday 2 May 2011

RIA Through Flex - BI Apps Development Made Easy

The Internet has evolved dramatically over the years to match up to the rising expectations of the users. The web developers have added to the attractiveness of the Internet based applications by implementing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that have the typical characteristics of traditional desktop resident software. An RIA can be built using Flex development tools and technologies. A Flex application offers high user experience as the RIA works on a “no-refresh” concept that processes query and generates the view without reloading the whole webpage. More than this Flex application development provides business intelligence through data analysis features that are inbuilt to the Flex SDK. The Flex developer utilizes the charting component of the Flex development kit to utilize the rich class library that provides a tremendous user interface with superior functionality too. It has rich set of the standard controls which helps flex developer to create out of the box flex application for the customer’s business requirement. 

It is always easy to read, understand, and work with pictorial and graphical data rather than just the numbers’ game. Business intelligence would be enhanced if the analysis engine would offer a graphical way to represent and organize the historical business data. This enables the managers and stakeholders to quickly make crucial business development decisions to not only survive but also thrive in this cut throat competitive market. Flex development makes this possible as the business information is elegantly presented to the user with added attractive user interface and powerful data and multimedia playback capability controls. It also helps flex developer to create a highly customized design based on the CSS using the Adobe Flex Builder. 

Flash Builder or the Flex Builder version 4 is a commercial IDE which has been developed by Adobe on the basis of the popular open source Eclipse IDE for Flex development. This tool is aimed to bridge the gap between the designer and the developer, and it is successfully doing so. Enterprise applications being large and very hard to manage can be full of dead codes and bugs. Flash Builder helps the developer to neatly organize the code for better understanding with auto complete features and semi-automated testing and debugging facilities. The designer module implements Flash components to enrich the RIA with engaging graphics, animations, and multimedia playback features and functionalities. 

Benefits of flex application are: 

1)Cross browser, platform and device compatibility. 

2)Ability to create custom component. 

3)It is open source technology hence it is inexpensive. 

4)Rich user interface with enhanced data controls. 

5)User interactive application with “no refresh” 

6)Create complex online business application with great UI 

7)Easily add feature or module according to business need hence it is scalable. 

8)Rapid application development with less coding. 

9)No need of high end server to deploy it. 

10)Support various technologies like .Net, PHP, Java, Perl, ColdFusion, Ruby. 

11)Used to provide real-time updates to most current data. 

Flex application development adapted in various market segments like trading application, ecommerce website, business intelligence application, Customer relationship management (CRM), foreign exchange application and many more. Many big organizations are migrating from their existing old fashion application to web based flex application.


Author:Marry Simpton
http://www.iflexweb.us
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/web_design_and_development/article_2312.shtml

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