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seminar and training sessions as well as to conduct business presentations through the Web.
Adobe Acrobat Standard—creates secure, reliable and compact Adobe PDF documents from desktop authoring
applications such as Microsoft Office software, graphics applications and more; supports automated collaborative workflows
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Reader.
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for creative professional and engineering users, such as pre-flighting, color separation and measuring tools; also allows users
to insert FLV or H.264 video for direct playback in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, create dynamic XML forms with
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collaboration between extended teams of designers and engineers to more securely and reliably communicate, visualize and
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CAD applications in Adobe PDF documents that can easily be shared with suppliers, partners and customers using the free
Adobe Reader software; Acrobat Pro Extended also: allows users to easily add audio, video and quizzes to PowerPoint slides
to create rich, interactive presentations with Adobe Presenter; enables conversion of a variety of video formats to FLV for
playback in PDF; and enables the creation of PDF maps through the importing geospatial files that can retain metadata and
coordinates. Acrobat 9 Pro Extended includes Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES, Adobe Presenter, Adobe 3D Reviewer and
Adobe 3D Capture Utility for UNIX.
Adobe Document Center—a hosted service that enables businesses to secure and manage Adobe PDF documents and
other common business document files such as those in Microsoft Office formats.
Create Adobe PDF Online—a Web-based subscription service that provides for the easy conversion of Microsoft Office
documents and other application files to Adobe PDF for the secure and reliable sharing of rich electronic documents that can
be viewed easily within leading Web browsers or on computer desktops via the free Adobe Reader.
See below for other Knowledge Worker related products.
Enterprise Opportunity
Enterprises are under increasing pressure to save money, offer improved customer service, adhere to regulatory
requirements and leverage existing investments in core systems. As a means to address these issues, a critical component of
an organization’ s business processes is the need to interact with data stored in enterprise applications. As this need expands
beyond the core users of those applications, adapting systems to accommodate a diverse group of users – including those
within and those external to the organization – has become an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. The outcome is a
proliferation of manual workarounds that result in process inefficiencies, delays and poor quality of information.
In addition, enterprises have built Web applications which enjoy the reach of the Web but often fail to deliver a user
interface with the ease of use and richness that users expect. This impedes utilization of these applications and increases
training costs, and reduces the overall return on investment (“ROI”) that enterprises expect. Organizations are now looking to
Rich Internet Applications (“RIA”) to boost their ROI for these Web applications by combining a rich graphical application
interface with the universal reach of the Web.
We believe significant opportunities exist to help enterprises address these issues by making their business processes
more efficient and their Web applications more engaging. To address these opportunities, we offer Adobe LiveCycle
solutions to securely extend the reach of information, processes and services to engage with customers and constituents. Our
solutions leverage our Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Platform which help businesses and government agencies inspire
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