Adobe adds bells and whistles to LiveCycle suite
By Robert Mullins
June 17, 2008 —
Adobe Systems has added new features to the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite content management product it introduced a year ago. These features further expedite the creation of rich Internet applications and documents.
At the heart of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES) Update 1, announced today, is LiveCycle Content Services ES, which includes an enterprise content repository, version management and collaboration tools, and Microsoft Office plug-ins that allow files such as Word documents to be easily integrated into the content management system. The Content Services component sells for US$25,000 per CPU, or US$125 per user, with a minimum of 100 users, Adobe stated.
Content Services is the fruit of a partnership between Adobe and Alfresco Software, a provider of open-source content management software. The Alfresco contribution is compelling, said Guy Creese, vice president and research director at Burton Group.
Alfresco is a relatively new but fast-growing company, Creese noted. It uses open-source software to accelerate its product development cycle. “A lot of their stuff is built on open source, so they haven’t had to code a lot of building blocks, they just use them.”
Also new in Update 1, which is expected to become available in July, is the ability to convert a CAD drawing into a PDF using LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES, explained Brian Wick, Adobe’s director of LiveCycle product marketing .
In one example posed by Wick, if a manufacturer wanted to share a CAD drawing of a new product with sales engineers, lawyers or an outside firm that would be hired to make that product, those people wouldn’t usually have access to a CAD workstation, which is expensive.
“What we’re doing with LiveCycle is converting, in batch mode and in high volume, the CAD drawings into PDF … so that those users can review and mark up and approve just with their free Reader client,” he said.
The new 3D version of LiveCycle PDF Generator ES lists for $60,000 per CPU or $300 per end user, with a minimum of 100 users.
The Content Services component also includes Workbench, an Eclipse-based tool for managing the workflow of a document creation process, said Marc Eaman, Adobe corporate evangelist. He demonstrated how Workbench could create a “welcome document” for a new customer of a financial services firm, bringing together account information, marketing materials and required legal disclosures. In the example, if one of the documents changed to keep up with New York state law, a new disclosure statement page could be added for all clients in New York, on the fly, Eaman said.
LiveCycle also incorporates other Adobe products, including Flash for rich Internet applications, and Adobe Air for applications that work offline as well as online.
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