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The revenue performance of these product lines in our enterprise business also benefitted from the recent deployment of
new versions of products that deliver enhanced capabilities. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, we delivered Adobe
LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2, which improved our offering and enhanced our go-to-market efforts as we entered fiscal 2010.
Later in fiscal 2010, we announced and delivered Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2.5 (“LiveCycle ES2.5”), expanding our
set of solutions for delivering superior customer experiences. New capabilities in LiveCycle ES2.5 include enterprise
mobility for improved multiscreen delivery of applications, an enhanced framework for building enterprise RIAs, a new set
of Solution Accelerators, and real-time collaboration to empower organizations to interact with customers and citizens in
more meaningful, personal ways. Separately, in November 2010 we also announced and released Adobe Connect version 8, a
significant update to our Web conferencing solution for enabling effective and engaging Web meetings, online training and
Webinars.
LiveCycle ES2.5 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 ES2.5 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 ES2.5 include expanded client and Web browser support. We believe the
extended mobile and desktop access to LiveCycle ES2.5 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 ES2.5, we offer
new capabilities such as LiveCycle Workspace ES2.5 Mobile—which enables access to LiveCycle ES2.5 from smartphones
and tablets 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 ES2.5, which is an Adobe AIR
application that provides easy access on the desktop to initiate LiveCycle ES services such as PDF creation.
Additional LiveCycle ES2.5 capabilities include expanded RIA data services and enable Adobe Flex and LiveCycle
developers to create user-centric applications that are unique to particular business needs. The new LiveCycle Mosaic ES2.5
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 or dashboard.
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
ES2.5 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 Solution
Accelerators—which help organizations make prototyping efficient and decrease application development time. New
LiveCycle ES2.5 Solution Accelerators include Interactive Statements, Managed Review and Approval and Correspondence
Management. We also provide LiveCycle Workbench ES2.5, which is an IDE that allows developers, designers, and business
analysts to work together collaboratively.
These LiveCycle ES2.5 capabilities build upon advancements we have made with LiveCycle that provided common
services software for functionality such as forms automation, PDF document creation, document security and process
management.
In October 2010, Adobe completed its acquisition of Day, a provider of next-generation WCM. Adobe's acquisition of
Day strengthens our CEM platform with market-leading WCM, digital asset management and social collaboration offerings.
We believe our acquisition of Day positions us to help organizations transform themselves by enabling them to create,
manage, distribute, and monetize content while optimizing the Web, mobile, and social collaboration experience for their
customers.
More specifically, we believe we can enable the delivery of customer-facing Web and mobile solutions by extending
enterprise services beyond interactive applications, documents, and workflows to include comprehensive WCM such as
personalization of content, rich media delivery capabilities, mobile application delivery, and social collaboration.