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Adobe LiveCycle Process Management—server-based process management application that allows organizations to
orchestrate people, systems, content and business rules into streamlined, end-to-end processes that are accessible to process
participants through engaging user interfaces, online or offline; provides out-of-box dashboards to help users gain insights into
business operations in real time and management tools to fix day-to-day operational problems and make long-term process
improvements.
Adobe LiveCycle Business Activity Monitoring—software that allows administrators and process participants to quickly
identify bottlenecks, check progress and view other process information related to business transactions; comes in two versions:
Adobe LiveCycle Business Activity Monitoring (“BAM”) ES Standard, which allows for the monitoring of all LiveCycle processes
with 16 out-of-the-box dashboards and, Adobe LiveCycle BAM ES Extended, which adds the ability to extend LiveCycle BAM
ES to other enterprise business systems so that users can monitor business processes via dashboards inside and outside the LiveCycle
environment.
Adobe LiveCycle Managed Services—LiveCycle is available as on-premise software or as a managed services offering
delivered in partnership with Amazon.com. LiveCycle Managed Services customers pay Adobe an annual subscription fee. In
return, Adobe provisions and manages a LiveCycle instance for the customer on Amazon Web Services. By outsourcing the
management of their LiveCycle instance to Adobe, customers benefit from increased capital efficiency and reduced complexity.
As a result, customers can focus more of their efforts on providing successful user outcomes and less on the tasks of managing
computing infrastructure.
Adobe Central Pro Output Server—a server-based software application for document generation that allows organizations
to create personalized, customer-facing documents from any data source, including legacy, line-of-business, enterprise resource
planning or CRM applications; merges data with an electronic document template using a powerful processing engine to
dynamically generate electronic documents such as purchase orders, invoices, statements and checks for delivery via Adobe PDF,
the web, e-mail, fax or print; works with Adobe Output Designer which is a companion tool used to create sophisticated document
templates.
Adobe LiveCycle Designer—desktop software application that simplifies the creation and maintenance of intelligent XML
based forms for deployment as Adobe PDF forms, HTML applications and Flash based RIAs; provides an intuitive, graphical
design tool for creating XML templates that look exactly as the author intended and previewing them before deployment; it also
simplifies adding intelligence to documents, such as business and routing logic, and binding form fields to arbitrary XML schemes
for seamless integration with enterprise applications.
Adobe Output Designer—a design tool that allows users to create electronic document templates for use with Adobe solutions
for document generation; aids in the creation of electronic documents that exactly replicate existing paper documents.
Adobe Output Pak for mySAP.com—an SAP-certified server-based software application for document generation that
enables organizations to optimize their investment in their SAP solution by creating personalized, professional-looking, customer-
facing documents; provides an easy, fast and cost-effective way to create and maintain documents for the SAP environment;
integrates directly with an SAP system to extract information which is merged with a document template that defines the layout
and formatting of the document; output can be in a variety of formats, including Adobe PDF, print, fax, e-mail and the web.
Adobe Web Output Pak—a server-based software application for document generation; creates documents in PDF and
HTML for presentation on the web and in Wireless Markup Language for presentation to a wireless device; allows users to
personalize and control the look of documents based on the data the documents contain.
Print and Publishing Products
Adobe Authorware—a legacy rich media authoring tool used to develop caption based eLearning on Windows and Macintosh
based platforms; use of the product ranges from creating web-based tutorials to simulations incorporating audio and video;
applications developed with Authorware can be delivered on the web, over corporate networks or on CD-ROM.
Adobe Captivate—enables users to rapidly create professional and engaging eLearning content-including software
simulation, quizzes, animation and multimedia-and deliver the content in .flv and other formats; the content can be created without
any programming or multi-media skills and can be published to CD/DVDs and Learning Management Systems used in training,
sales, marketing and customer support applications; often used in combination with Adobe Connect, Adobe Captivate provides a
robust technology solution to bring understanding and retention to end users of rapid training and eLearning solutions.
Adobe ColdFusion—provides a server-scripting environment and a set of features used by organizations for building
database-driven scalable applications that are accessible through web browsers, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR; built on an
open Java technology architecture and can be deployed on third-party Java application servers that support the J2EE specification.
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