Silverlight-3 in RIA ENVIRONMENT

I would like to highlight enhanced features of Silverlight 3 which are related to marrying Silverlight with BI apps.

Silverlight 3 introduces more business focused controls, more data and business logic connectivity. Using local storage resources and Silverlight's support to detect network availability, the out of browser applications can also still run offline disconnected from the network. We can consider a BI dashboard application which can run as a desktop application as well as it can run into the browser also. One more feature which adds to the factor for silverlight to be a candidate for BI apps is LocalConnection APIs. The LocalConnection API enables the scenarios for Silverlight applications to communicate with each other through an asynchronous messaging system. This is helpful in dashboards as well as when you have islands of Silverlight functionality mixed with standard HTML content as well.

In conjunction with the release of .NET RIA services, it will become easier to develop BI applications with Silverlight 3.

There are so many other features which are the corrective measures on top of previous release of silverlight 2.0 which makes silverlight 3.0 more powerful than its descendents. You can consider media enhancement, addition of many useful controls and enhanced web service support as the factors that can make silverlight a leading technology in the market for developing RIA applications.