Adobe unveils LiveCycle Enterprise Suite in Mid East

An integrated server solutions LiveCycle ES blends electronic forms and information management to help create and deliver rich and engaging applications that reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making and ensure regulatory compliance.

"LiveCycle ES leverages the reach of Adobe Flash® Player and Adobe Reader® and enables a new class of customer engagement applications that easily connect people inside and outside organisations to internal information and processes," said Jacob Alex, Adobe's Middle East Channel Manager. "The solution will also help improve the efficiency of regional e-government operations and enable faster transition to knowledge-based economies."

While organisations such as financial institutions can offer customers a wide array of services on-demand while streamlining processes and minimising costs, governments will be able to advance the quality and breadth of services they provide.

"Our business processes and those at our customer sites typically involve multiple people needing to review and sign-off on materials inside and outside our company," says Didier Fleury, CIO, Cegedim, the European leader in data services and software for the healthcare industry.

"With Adobe LiveCycle ES, we are looking forward to easily integrate key back-office systems and workflows with front-end processes. The more secure, automated workflows bring new efficiencies to our business and support our compliance efforts by giving us more control over processes. We are impressed by the LiveCycle ES beta software and look forward to deploying the released software."

LiveCycle ES automates the data processing once captured and integrates it with rules engines, data stores, and web services. It also includes scalable solution components to build, manage and optimise business critical customer-facing processes by using wizard-like form guides and Flash-based graphics to allow users with the process of providing, or receiving information online.

LiveCycle ES provides customers with enhanced data output capabilities such as interactive dashboards and dynamic, high-volume print solutions and also offers rights management, document certification, and digital signatures capabilities to help organisations protect sensitive information.

Available in two editions, LiveCycle ES Business Transformation Edition and LiveCycle ES Data Capture Edition, Adobe provides customers the option of purchasing a base system to add solution components, or purchase several of the solution components in one package with a single price.

The LiveCycle Business Transformation Edition includes the following solution components: Data Capture Edition, Process Management, Digital Signatures, Rights management, and Output. On the other hand, the LiveCycle Data Capture Edition (base) includes Forms, Data Services, Barcoded Forms, and Reader Extensions solution components. Both editions are expected to be available from July 2007 onwards.