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Our Adobe LiveCycle solutions utilize Adobe PDF documents which interact with core business applications
and integrate information contained in those documents into business processes. In addition to being reliable
electronic replicas, Adobe PDF documents are “intelligent” - they retain the best characteristics of paper
documents, such as a familiar look, but add powerful business logic capabilities such as data validation and
automated routing instructions. In addition, arbitrary data (including XML-based data) can be embedded inside of
intelligent PDF documents for use or access later on in a business process. These features allow for more efficient
interaction with enterprise applications while still providing the ability for people to manually access and interact
with the data when necessary.
Our LiveCycle products leverage our Adobe Reader software – with more than 500 million distributed copies
of Adobe Reader, we have created a ubiquitous platform for accessing and interacting with intelligent electronic
documents. Adobe Reader is available on the most common operating system platforms free of charge, including
Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, various Unix-based platforms, and portable device systems such as
Palm OS, Pocket PC and the Symbian operating system for cellular phones. As a universal client, Adobe Reader
enables users inside and outside the firewall to interact with intelligent PDF documents on most platforms,
including desktops, laptops, PDAs, mobile phones and kiosks, regardless of the application used to author the
document.
To address the specific needs of our customers, we offer “process management services.” These are services
are sets of technologies that create, integrate and manage intelligent documents, and leverage the use of our
Adobe Reader software for our customers’ constituents to interact with data within the document. Process
management services that we currently provide include:
• Process Automation — products and solutions which allow organizations to automate form-based
workflows deploying intelligent data capture systems and rules-based process management to automate
business transactions;
• Information Assurance — products and solutions to control document access and usage, enable the use of
digital signatures as a replacement for paper and pen-based signatures and certify document authenticity;
and
• Document Generation — products and solution which enables users to generate high-quality documents in
real time and via batch processes. This can be done from desktop applications or dynamically from core
systems. These products and solutions dynamically generate personalized, customer-facing documents
from enterprise applications for enhanced customer communications.
Our ColdFusion products provide fast and easy ways to build and deploy powerful Internet applications.
Developers can extend or integrate ColdFusion with Java or .NET applications, connect to enterprise data and
applications, create and interact via Web services, or interface with SMS on mobile devices or Instant messaging
clients. ColdFusion can also be used for business reporting, rich-forms generation, printable document generation,
full-text search, and graphing and charting – enabling customers to more fully engage their constituents with
better Web experiences.
Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Summary
Through the combination of Adobe and Macromedia technologies and execution against our go-to-market
strategy in fiscal year 2006, we achieved strong year-over-year growth in our Enterprise and Developer business
during the year. Our LiveCycle family of server products and technologies achieved record revenue in fiscal
2006, driven by strong adoption in targeted markets such as government and financial services. Our integration
with other software vendors’ platforms, such as those from SAP AG, helped to further drive adoption during the
year – as did adoption of Adobe PDF and Adobe server technologies in markets like insurance.
With our Adobe Flex solutions, we also achieved strong revenue growth and adoption in key targeted
markets during fiscal 2006. Our Macromedia ColdFusion business also continued to perform well due to revenue
generated from its existing customer base that benefits from a large and active developer community. This