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Adobe LiveCycle Content Services—offers a library of services that can be used with other LiveCycle solution
components to create content-rich engagement applications whereby end users can share and collaborate on content
development in content spaces as part of a company’ s business processes; supports check-in/check-out capabilities, keeps a
complete audit history of all document actions and provides a fully integrated set of content services ranging from an
enterprise content repository to social collaboration tools such as enterprise forums; also includes team collaboration
capabilities such as forums and discussions, and provides Microsoft Office plug-ins that enable users to interact with the
process engine and content repository using Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Adobe LiveCycle Mosaic—provides rich Internet application framework for rapidly assembling and engaging activity-
centric enterprise applications, and provides knowledge workers with real-time, contextual information from multiple sources
in a single, personalized view; used by developers to extend existing applications by exposing their business logic and user
interfaces into application tiles that can be assembled to create unified views.
Collaboration
Adobe Connect—a rich Web-based communication system which enables organizations to reduce the costs of travel and
increase the effectiveness of online training, marketing events, sales meetings and collaborative Web conferencing solutions
which are instantly accessible by customers, partners and employees using Adobe Flash Player; consists of a core Connect
Events Server or hosted service, and modules that provide specific application functionality, including Connect Training and
Connect Events; can be deployed with either some or all of these components together; Connect Training allows
organizations to build a complete online training system with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that include surveys,
analysis, course administration and content management; Connect Events allows users to provide seminar and training
sessions as well as to conduct business presentations through the Web.
Data Capture
Adobe LiveCycle Data Services—high-performance, scalable and flexible framework that streamlines the development
of RIAs using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR; abstracts the complexity required to create server push-based applications and
supports a rich set of features to create real-time solutions; utilizes powerful data services and simplifies data management
problems such as tracking changes, synchronization, paging and conflict resolution; deployed as a standard J2EE Web
application, which enables customers to leverage their existing infrastructure.
Adobe LiveCycle Forms—server-based software application that organizations can use to cost-effectively and securely
extend their core business processes beyond their enterprise system; enables customers to create and deploy XML-based form
templates as PDF, SWF, or HTML for use with Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash Player software, or with Web browsers;
provides for the capture of data from submitted forms and the transfer of the data directly into an organization’ s core business
systems, thereby streamlining form-driven business processes and improving data accuracy.
Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions—server-based software application which lets enterprises easily share interactive
Adobe PDF documents with external parties without requiring recipients of the documents to purchase Acrobat software that
normally would be necessary to interact with the Adobe PDF documents they receive; unlocks features on an individual
Adobe PDF document by document basis so that when such a file is opened in the free Adobe Reader, users have access to
tools that normally would not be available in Adobe Reader, such as reviewing and commenting functions, digital signatures
to electronically sign PDF documents, embedding file attachments, enabling database and Web service capabilities, and the
ability to fill in form data, submit and save electronic documents locally.
Document Output
Adobe LiveCycle Output—server-based solution which supports on-demand document processes including the
generation of documents such as correspondence, confirmations, bids, or shipping labels; provides capabilities to merge
XML data from back-end systems with Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES templates to generate documents in PDF, PDF/A,
PostScript, PCL, or Zebra label formats; customers can customize electronic document packages by combining newly
generated PDF documents with existing files from document repositories; customers can also convert PDF documents to
print or image file formats and then route them automatically to support direct server-based printing or archiving operations.
Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator—server-based software which automates the creation, assembly, distribution and
archival of PDF documents in combination with critical business processes; converts a wide range of native and standard file
formats, and can combine newly created PDF documents with existing files or pages to assemble customized PDF packages;
supports direct server-based PDF printing or can convert PDF documents to a wide variety of formats, including image
formats and PDF/A.