Adobe updates LiveCycle to handle the flow of business forms based on the PDF format.Adobe today announced significant enhancements to its Adobe LiveCycle server platform, which includes an enhanced process management server.
LiveCycle Document Services is a suite of servers for updating and routing PDF documents. Adobe Systems Inc. is marketing the suite toward business customers who need to create, capture and integrate information across their enterprise, according to the company.
With this release, the workflow process software gains a Java-based server and design tools which Adobe acquired last year when it bought Q-Link for $15.9 million. One of these design tools is a new workflow designer that offers more than 50 drag-and-drop QPACs (quick-action components), which allow users to visually build a workflow.
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The new software also boasts technology from Celequest, which is the foundation for LiveCycle's new business activity monitoring (BAM) solution that measures and manages workflow performance through customizable dashboards. In addition, a significant update to the Adobe 2-D barcoded forms solution unifies paper to electronic document processes more efficiently.
LiveCycle is a central component of Adobe's effort to increase sales to corporate customers. Last year's corporate sales totaled about $100 million, according to the company.
LiveCycle faces competition from established workflow software providers as well as larger platform providers, such as IBM and Microsoft. IBM bought electronic business forms provider PureEdge in July. Microsoft is enhancing the workflow capabilities of its Office suite and is planning to offer an XML-based document format similar to Acrobat called Metro.
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