Welcome to the Adobe Connect Business Exchange Event
1 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Introduction & Agenda
Roel-Jan Mouw Marketing Manager Benelux Adobe Systems
2 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Agenda
Acrobat Momentum
Discover Acrobat 8
Overview of new Acrobat 8
Acrobat 8 in Business
Practical demonstration
“Beyond Acrobat”
Adobe LiveCycle Platform
3 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe timeline and innovations
Technology Foundation Desktop Publishing Revolution The Internet Revolution Begins Cross-Media Publishing The Next Wave 1982 1985 1986 1987 1990 1995 1999 2000 2002 2004 2005 Shantanu Narayen Adobe Aldus Promoted to Photoshop® Acquisition Bruce Chizen Promoted to President & COO President & CEO Adobe Initial Public Intelligent Offering Document Platform
Flash® Company Adobe founded by Illustrator® Accelio John Acquisition Warnock and Chuck Adobe Geschke Acrobat® , Macromedia Adobe PDF, Acquisition and Adobe First Adobe® Reader® PostScript® Printer & Imagesetter Stephen Elop Named President of WW Field Operations
2 5,000 employees employees
4 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe’s impact on online documents today
Frequency of Internet publications 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60
Quantity of documents in millions Quantity of documents 40 20 0 .pdf .swf .doc .ppt .xls Source: Google.com (2006)
5 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Ubiquitous and extensive platform with worldwide audience
89% 97%
+600 million PC’s and devices 1,800 solution partners
6 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Solutions for Knowledge Workers… Who are they?
Information consumption Collaborate with others Share Information
7 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. How Knowledge Workers use Adobe Acrobat line
Collaborate : Create and optimize : Manage, organize and extend feedback Adobe PDF documents to expedite document collaboration from many sources
Control : access to a document Collect : and preserve content Streamline data Combine : integrity collection with Adobe files from multiple applications into PDF forms a single, document container
8 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Collaboration
9 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Collaborate and Communicate with Confidence
Bringing documents and people together across boundaries
Documents + People
10 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Document Collaboration + Real-Time Collaboration
Acrobat 8 Professional Acrobat Connect Pro
eliminates technology barriers and bring real-time functionality to online collaboration and web conferencing
11 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Document and Real-Time Collaboration is widely used
Individuals Departments Enterprises Personal Meeting Rooms Rapid Training Scalability
Marketing Integration
Finance Management
HR
12 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. (Document) Control
13 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. CONTROL and protect Business Documents and Information
NEW Document Services: Adobe Document Center
Protect, share and track usage of sensitive documents
Gives full control over documents Inside and outside the firewall
Dynamically revoke access
Audit actions such as printing capability
Supersede old versions, ‘pushing’ a new version
Use new ‘document’ option such Time-bound rights,
Works with e.g.: .pdf, .xls and .doc
Can also be implemented as sever based automated policies
14 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. PDF Solutions in different business processes
Automated standardized Document and Business Complexity processes & forms
Standardized processes & forms Back end integrated workflows Controlled processes & DRM Structured documents Interactive electronics forms & documents Electronic forms workflows Standardized processes Ad Hoc documents extended to Reader users Collaboration workflows Document collaboration extended to Reader users Document control Digital rights management Ubiquitous documents Electronic forms
Acrobat Professional Acrobat Professional Acrobat Standard Acrobat Standard LiveCycle Form Designer Acrobat Elements Acrobat Professional Adobe LiveCycle Solutions Adobe Flex New! Adobe Document Center 2007 Apollo…
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