R-Quick: first Adobe AIR based e-Banking solution from Raiffeisen Bank Polska

Raiffeisen Bank Polska has just released first ever full e-Banking solution based on Adobe AIR technology. This release brings full functionality of what was always available via browser built with Flex. This is great news especially for those that have really slow or low bandwidth internet connections at home, office or are connecting with GSM modems, unfortunately this is still reality among Polish internet providers. This application lowers the required bandwidth to the actual minimum, no graphics no layout no html has to be transferred over the wire, only pure data.

This application is a great example of AIR technology itself but also possibility of deploying Flex browser code on the desktop. I’m hoping we will see more integration with desktop in upcoming releases. I can immediately imagine things like: direct desktop notifications of account transactions, stocks rates alerts, upcoming payments alerts, data caching for complex data intensive calculations and analysis (using encrypted SQLite), drag-and-drop transaction confirmations directly from AIR app to desktop or other applications in formats like PDF, XLS etc.

Here are couple of screens with running application:

Application can be downloaded and installed via badge from this location: https://www.r-bank.pl/web/en/air/ this applies only to Polish Raiffeisen Bank customers of course.