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The overall performance of our enterprise business benefitted from the release of new versions of products during the
year. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, we delivered Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (“ES2”), which enables
businesses and governments to deliver personalized experiences to improve employee productivity and the overall experience
of their customers and constituents.
LiveCycle ES2 is an integrated J2EE server solution that blends data capture, process management, information
security, document generation and content services to help create and deliver rich and engaging applications that reduce
paperwork, accelerate decision-making and help ensure regulatory compliance. It provides developers the ability to build
applications that improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. Delivering significant
productivity improvements to IT and line-of-business managers, LiveCycle ES2 also provides an RIA framework for
building customizable RIA workspaces, mobile and desktop access to critical applications, and deployment as hosted
services.
New features and enhancements to LiveCycle ES2 include expanded client and Web browser support. We believe the
extended mobile and desktop access to LiveCycle ES2 will help organizations save time and costs by providing seamless
end-user access to processes and services that help them complete their work faster. As part of LiveCycle ES2, we offer new
capabilities such as LiveCycle Workspace ES2 Mobile—which enables access to LiveCycle ES2 from smartphones including
iPhone, Blackberry and Windows mobile devices, thereby increasing user productivity by allowing access to tasks when
users are away from their desks. We also offer LiveCycle Launchpad ES2, which is an Adobe AIR application that provides
easy access on the desktop to initiate LiveCycle ES services such as PDF creation.
Additional LiveCycle ES2 capabilities included expanded RIA data services. Through closer integration with the Adobe
Flash Platform, LiveCycle ES2 enables Adobe Flex and LiveCycle developers to create user-centric applications that are
unique to particular business needs. The new LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 capability is an RIA 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. Developers can extend existing applications by exposing their business
logic and user interfaces into application tiles that can be assembled to create unified views.
In addition, we provide LiveCycle Collaboration Service, which is a new hosted service that provides developers and
enterprises with a scalable solution to easily build real-time, multi-user collaboration into existing or new RIAs. LiveCycle
ES2 also provides the option to deploy LiveCycle capabilities in the cloud, hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud
computing environment. We believe these capabilities provide organizations with a faster deployment path and lower total
cost of ownership. It also allows developers to stage multiple applications before going live in production.
To make it easy for enterprise designers and developers to automate enterprise business processes, we provide tight
integration of Adobe tools and solutions such as LiveCycle ES2 Solution Accelerators—which help organizations launch
project planning and prototyping, and decrease development time. New LiveCycle ES2 Solution Accelerators include human
capital management, eSubmissions, correspondence management, new account enrollment and services and benefits delivery.
We also provide LiveCycle Workbench ES2, which is an integrated development environment (“IDE”) that allows
developers, designers, and business analysts to work together collaboratively.
These LiveCycle ES2 capabilities build upon advancements we have made with LiveCycle ES that provided common
services software for functionality such as forms automation, PDF document creation, document security and process
management.
In fiscal 2009, we also increased our focus on the Web conferencing market opportunity with our Acrobat Connect Pro
product line, which is licensed by customers as on-premise server-based software or as a hosted service. Revenue grew by
more than 20% in fiscal 2009 due to our increased focus on marketing and licensing the product, as well as overall growth in
the market opportunity.