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We believe our technology platform revolutionizes how enterprises and government agencies present, deliver, consume
and interact with information and content. By providing an integrated client-server framework, toolset and server-side
process orchestration engine for developers, designers and IT organizations, we believe our solutions allow our customers to:
• Engage their constituents with compelling experiences and intelligent documents—providing them with the ability
to act upon information or tasks presented to them for improved and effective collaboration;
• Streamline and accelerate document-based processes so more work gets done;
• Simplify the creation and deployment of compelling, relevant and actionable applications;
• Augment existing enterprise infrastructures to deliver the next level of engagement with their stakeholders;
• Implement solutions which adhere to security and regulatory compliance requirements;
• Scale these solutions needs regardless of the size of their constituent populations; and
• Leverage the Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player clients to reach people inside and outside of their
organizations, and across all desktops and devices.
Although our solutions address the needs of a diverse set of enterprise customers, we focus primarily on key vertical
industries such as financial services, government, manufacturing, life sciences and health care. For these customers, we offer
comprehensive, scalable, secure and reliable server products and tools to develop applications tailored to their specific
information and business process requirements.
Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (“ES”), newly released in mid-2007, brings together more closely Adobe PDF and
Adobe Flash technologies to provide capabilities which allow businesses and enterprises to more effectively engage
customers, constituents, partners and employees in key business processes. LiveCycle ES software is an integrated J2EE
server solution that blends electronic forms, process management, document security and document generation to help create
and deliver rich and engaging applications that reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making and help ensure regulatory
compliance.
Key differentiating features in LiveCycle ES allow developers to build more engaging experiences that scale from paper
forms to rich and interactive online applications, protect sensitive information and extend business processes that span from
data capture through process orchestration to document generation — inside and outside an organization’ s firewall.
A key enhancement in LiveCycle ES is the fusion of Adobe PDF with our Adobe Flex technologies which utilize the
Flash file format and leverage our widely-used Flash Player technology. With Flex, developers are able to combine the rich
user interface of desktop software with the reach and ease of deployment of the Web, and the processing power of desktop
computers and mobile devices. This combination enables the delivery of more complex interactions than are currently
supported by the Web browser model. Flex applications extend the server-based object model to client systems, improving
interactivity by eliminating the constant page refreshes and context switches that users frequently experience. As a result,
Flex applications enable organizations to provide users with a dramatically improved experience that supports the
manipulation of data and information in ways that are impractical in a traditional browser-based environment.
Sample uses of Adobe Flex applications to streamline business processes within LiveCycle include the following:
• Form Guides—Form Guides are Adobe Flex based wizard-like panels that help guide users through a data capture
experience. Form guides can dynamically change and adapt based on input data to ensure only relevant and
accurate data is captured. These rich and engaging experiences help reduce transaction abandonment rates that are
prevalent with more complex data collection interfaces;
• LiveCycle Workspace ES—LiveCycle Workspace provides an intuitive and responsive process dashboard that
allows participants in business processes to track, complete, delegate and monitor tasks. Created as a set of
reusable Adobe Flex components, LiveCycle Workspace enables organizations to customize process dashboards
for specific end user roles to optimize productivity; and