ZapThink » Nitobi http://www.zapthink.com Sharpening Your Vision of the Future of IT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:12:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Evolution of the Rich Internet Application Market http://www.zapthink.com/2009/05/01/evolution-of-the-rich-internet-application-market/ http://www.zapthink.com/2009/05/01/evolution-of-the-rich-internet-application-market/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 00:05:00 +0000 Ronald Schmelzer http://test.zapthink.com/?p=ZTR-WS115 As the Internet continues to penetrate every aspect of our lives, both business and personal, the distinction between “Internet application” and “application” increasingly fades from view. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) operate in the sweet spot among richness of Internet capability, richness of user interactivity, and richness of client-side computing capability. RIAs act as Service consumers as part of Service-Oriented Architecture implementations and enable Enterprise Mashups.

Since ZapThink first covered the space in 2002, the RIA market has matured considerably, establishing two core submarkets: RIA environments and RIA components. Adobe Systems emerging as a leader in the RIA environments submarket with their Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Flex products. Microsoft is a strong contender with their newer Silverlight technology. Open source vendors have emerged as significant players, and form a large portion of the RIA components submarket.

While the RIA market should continue to grow for the next few years, it will most likely merge with other markets long term and be indifferentiable from a market sizing perspective as the RIA category increasingly overlaps with other existing desktop and Internet application categories.

]]> Market Overview
  • ZapThink estimates that the total market for RIA will grow to over $700M by 2011.
  • Adobe is currently the biggest and most experienced RIA player, but it faces serious challenges on multiple fronts, most notably open source solutions and Microsoft, with its relatively new Silverlight technology.
  • Since 2006, ZapThink has seen substantial contraction in the RIA component submarket, elimination of the extensions submarket, and consolidation and expansion of the RIA environments submarket.

Future Trends

  • There is increasing demand for RIA capabilities in the enterprise, although people don’t identify the applications that leverage such capabilities as RIAs. Rather, RIA capabilities are features of many of those applications.
  • As the line between browser-based and desktop-based applications blurs, and as approaches for abstracting functionality and information from user interfaces develop, other markets will eventually merge with the RIA market.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) Market
    1. The State of the Rich Internet Application Market
    2. Identifying RIAs
    3. Overview of the Market
    4. Qualitative Changes in RIA Market since 2006
    5. New RIA Market Motivators from 2009 through 2013
  2. RIA Market Evolution
    1. The Decline of the RIA Component market
    2. Consolidation in the RIA Environments market
    3. Ambiguity in the RIA Extensions market
    4. Microsoft’s RIA Market Penetration
    5. Open Source Trends Impacting RIA Market
    6. Increasing Role of Data Access in RIAs
    7. Macroeconomic factors impacting RIA growth
  3. RIA Market Survey Results
    1. End-User Interviews
  4. RIA Market Estimates and Predictions
  5. Conclusions
    1. Key Notes
    2. Figures

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