Curl Blog: Introducing The RIA Knowledge Center

Over the last 6 months we have been educating the US market on the benefits of RIAs. In talking to IT organizations, ISVs, VARs and SIs it has become apparent that there is very little information about the benefits of RIAs to the enterprise.

In order to help the RIA cause we have created the RIA Knowledge Center. The RIA Knowledge Center is a place for information about RIA technologies and the business benefits they drive. In the spirit of "a rising tide helps all boats" it is our intent that the Knowledge center be as vendor neutral as possible. The repository will feature information about the deployment of RIA solutions and include podcasts, whitepapers, analyst reports and articles.

Additionally over the last 9 months we have been tagging the Internet and blogosphere for all things RIA. Some far we have created over 280 relevant RIA tags. You can see the complete set of tags here.

The Knowledge Center information is organized into 4 categories.

The Business Case for RIA - These articles and reports focus on how the enterprises are measuring the benefits of RIA. Over the next several months we will be working with Forrester to provide more detailed studies on the ROI for enterprise RIA. Today you will find Ron Rogowski's report on \\"The Business Case for Rich Internet Applications.\\" (Note that the Forrester Reports that we are paying to distribute and valued at $379 do require registration)
RIA User Interfaces - Much of the benefit of RIA is derived from improved user interfaces and is critical in measuring the RIA benefit. Reports in here focus on how improved user experience can have a direct impact on both top and bottom line of the your business.
Technology Comparisons - There are a lot of RIA technologies and platforms available today. How to make sense of it all? In this section we will explore the benefits and challenges of each of the major alternatives. Today we announced the release of a detailed study performed by Sonata that compares Ajax, Flex and Curl.
Use Case Scenarios - To date there have been very few documented enterprise RIA use cases. Curl has over 300 enterprise customers in Japan including Sony, Panasonic and NTT Communications. Over the next serveral months we will be providing the details of these deployments and how the benefits have been measured.