Adobe added to its ubiquitous PDF document creation and management platform on Monday with the purchase of a Palo Alto-based electronic-signature company called EchoSign. The San Jose software company had been attempting to develop its own...

London, ON – June 15, 2011 – A recent Web Conferencing Vendor Landscape report published by Info-Tech Research Group and titled, “Select a Web Conferencing Vendor,” ranked Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx as “Champions” in the Web Conferencing...

(25-Oct-10) Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) has released version 2.5 of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, which delivers more interactivity, as well as three new solution accelerators and a batch of new mobility features. The rollout is significant from...

Apple and Google had interlocking boards, Adobe was Apple's lifelong development partner and ally, and even Intel had come back from the Dark Side of Wintel to make the chips used in Apple machines. What a happy family, all playing around the...

(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...

Microsoft knows that mindshare equals market share, and that attracting users when they are young will inevitably lead to revenue later. To that end, Microsoft offers a hosted suite of services called Live@edu to educational institutions...

Salesforce.com and Adobe systems announced a significant new partnership which will formally add Adobe’s rich internet application (RIA) development platform to Salesforce.com’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. “Adobe Flash® Builder™ for...

6-Oct-09 "A little dot for us, a big step for Flash-kind," was how Adobe chief technology officer (CTO) Kevin Lynch described the launch of Flash Player (FP) 10.1 on Monday. Adobe's first multi-screen Flash player was unveiled with great...

5-Oct-09 Business users of Adobe LiveCycle workspace will now be able to access and act on "task lists" for their projects on mobile devices. Adobe execs say this new capability, announced Monday at Adobe Max 2009, will speed up and simplify...

OpenOffice.org released Version 3 of its free, open-source office productivity suite. Functional parity with Microsoft Office is at its highest, especially for the handful of Microsoft (MS) Office features most frequently used. However, when...

Professional service firms often rely heavily on courier services to send documents. The sensitive nature and large size of these files justify the need for such a traditional approach. However, with other options now available, revisiting...

Adobe Systems recently announced general availability of Version 9 of its flagship Acrobat product. Adobe's addition of advanced live document collaboration between Acrobat Professional and the free Adobe Reader requires that organizations once...

In case you missed it, Microsoft's OOXML (Office Open XML) document format has received approval from the required number of member countries to become an ISO standard. If you did miss it, you are not alone. And did I mention PDF was recently...

Microsoft's recent move into the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space with Silverlight has generated a lot of buzz and comparisons, but often with the wrong product. For a fair comparison, Silverlight should be compared with Adobe's Flash/Flex...

While the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and .NET application development platform debate rages on, alternative development frameworks such as Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) and Adobe Flex are gaining enterprise traction. Adobe Flex is a capable...

While the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and .NET application development platform debate rages on, alternative development frameworks such as Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (LAMP) and Adobe Flex are gaining traction in small enterprises. Adobe Flex is a...

Small enterprises that cannot justify investment in high-end electronic forms automation systems often believe their only alternative is to employ word processing or spreadsheet forms. However, many affordable electronic forms solutions are...

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Info-Tech's "Sample MS Word Form" can be used as a template to easily create new Word forms for the enterprise instead of contending with expensive Adobe solutions.