How Flex Development Helps Creating A Business Intelligent Flex Application?

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Rich internet application (RIA) is a web based application which has typical characteristics of traditional desktop application. Flex application introduced no-refresh concept and high user experience with graphical representation of the data. Flex application gives tremendous growth in the online business application with the help of RIA technology. 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. The Flex application runs a lightweight plug-in on the client browser hence providing the much desired cross-browser functionality. Since majority of the browsers have come with the Flash player and in others the plug-in has been installed already the rich Internet applications built on the Flex platform readily run on all platforms and across all devices.

Flex development helps to create a flex application that organize the business historical data in various format and offers pictorial view to take very crucial decision for the business development in the competitive market. Flex development helps to present an elegant set ...
... of information with attractive user interface with help of powerful data and multimedia capability controls. It also helps flex developer to create a highly customized design based on the CSS using the Adobe Flex Builder. The Flex application is a client-server application wherein the RIA runs on the client browser and interacts dynamically with the server database. For the front-end Flex development uses the MXML markup language for implementing application UI and navigation. For the dynamic intelligence ActionScript scripting language is used which allows tremendous animation and multimedia playback features. For the back-end collaboration Flex works with server-side scripting languages such as .Net, PHP, Ruby, ColdFusion and many more to provide a flexible programming platform for the Flex developers. For the database Flex application development includes Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES that helps in data synchronizing between the user screen and the database server.

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 intelligent 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. As the Flex applications come as lightweight plug-ins they install quickly and hassle-free. The Flex applications come in two forms - web applications and desktop applications. While the web applications run on the client browser the desktop applications are installed on the desktop itself and run on the runtime environment called Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Both these forms contribute heavily in improving user experience and hence increasing business processing and productivity. Each business should get an RIA built on the Flex platform for getting better performance and ROI from their businesses.

The writer of this article is a professional Flex developer at iFlexWeb. iFlexWeb is a forefront Flex development company and provides all forms of Flex application development services and solutions at cost effective rates.