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17
Process Management
Adobe LiveCycle Business Activity Monitoring ES—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 Adobe LiveCycle BAM ES to other enterprise business systems so that users can monitor business processes inside
and outside the LiveCycle environment.
Adobe LiveCycle Process Management ES—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.
Content Services
Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES—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 ES Connectors for ECM—solutions which enables Adobe LiveCycle customers to connect their
LiveCycle applications with other industry-leading enterprise content management (“ECM”) systems, such as EMC
Documentum, IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager.
Other Knowledge Worker and Enterprise Related Products
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,
ERP 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 ES—desktop software application which 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—a 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 Reader—software for reliable reviewing and printing of Adobe PDF documents on a variety of hardware and
operating system platforms; when used with certain Adobe PDF documents created with Adobe LiveCycle Reader