(16-Feb-10) Just months after launching Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), Adobe has created LiveCycle Managed Services, a cloud-based version of the suite that runs on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Adobe LiveCycle ES2 helps companies to extend the value of existing back-end systems by engaging users with collaborative rich internet apps (RIAs) and guided forms, streamlining internal processes, managing correspondence, and strengthening information and document security.
The big picture of Adobe's managed services launch is that it confirms the vendor's commitment to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) -- cloud computing markets predicted to grow rapidly over the coming years. IDC, for example, estimates the worldwide market for cloud computing services in 2009 was $17.4B and could reach $44.2B by 2013.