Adobe News & Articles

Newly updated, K4 is a German-originated product shipped in America by MEI. It offers tighter control of the publishing process with task-based workflow giving specific instructions on each user's tasks to keep them on the ball.

Adobe (news, site) launched LiveCycle ES2, their platform for document-centric business process management in October of last year. At that time, they talked about a cloud ready version of LiveCycle in the works. Today, that cloud version has become available, and here's a look at what it can do for you.

Everyone has an opinion on who we all should be paying close attention to this year. IDC has their lists, Gartner and Forrester point our theirs in research reports. Even CIO Magazine has their top 20 and there are more than a few you might find interesting.

WoodWing (news, site) launches the latest version of its Enterprise 7 Publishing System, packing in improvements for search and production, and adding a much-evolved Content Station to make managing media less of a chore.

According to BtoB Magazine the web analytics market is expected to hit US$ 953 mil by 2014, and suggesting that the pickings might be even juicier Adobe recently acquired Omniture for the tidy sum of about US$1.8 billion.

If you're on top of things Web, then you've probably noticed a growing hum of activity in the analytics space. Here's a quick scan around the field and a look at what all this Web CMS + analytics integration news we've been hearing about means.

Help! Enterprise software is failing! At least, that's what Rob Tarkoff, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Business Productivity Solutions, Adobe, said in his presentation at this year's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

Playing on yesterday morning's speed dating with Sharepoint session, Tarkoff used his stage time to offer some "long term relationship" advice, and how Adobe plans to contribute to a customer-driven enterprise.  

First announced early October at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe (news, site) has officially launched the second version of Adobe LiveCycle ES and prepares to support enterprises as they move their applicatins and servies to the cloud.

 Well, when Box.net and Salesforce.com announced their partnership last week, we said it illustrated a growing trend toward providing applications on existing Software-as-a-Service platforms. Here to back us up this week is another Salesforce.com partnership, but this one might have a bit more volume, as it's with Adobe (news, site).

To put it simply, developers can now create applications featuring their Salesforce.com data using Adobe Flash technology. Adobe Air is available for desktop applications as well. Apply the popularity that desktop applications such as Tweetdeck have received to an an application that can utilize the vast amount of information available in any given Salesforce.com account, and things get pretty interesting, right? See here for a demo:

But don't got too excited just yet; the fruit from the Adobe/Salesforce.com womb is still in its preview stage. There's no doubt, however, that this particular combo is going to give developers a new and very exciting reason to flex their talents.

From another angle, it's also interesting to see Adobe making moves toward what looks like a business-centric style (remember their gobbling up of Omniture). If you've got your head in your hands over it because you're trying to figure out what it all means for the bigger picture, don't worry, we're in the boat with you.

For now, it's safe to say the Enterprise is about to swell with third party applications, much like our social and browser environments. How will it pan out? Well, keep up with us here and let's find out. 

Yes, Flash has been brought to the iPhone. No, you can't view Flash-based Web content on the iPhone. Kind of a rough deal, right?

But wait, not all is lost! In this case, luck befalls the developers yet again. At this year's Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe (news, site) announced that Flash Professional CS5, the next upgrade to the Flash developer package, will be able to creative native iPhone apps for distribution through the App Store.  

The word Adobe (news, site) most often evokes images of PDFs dancing on your desktop. Creative Suite does spring in adding a dash of color. But the Adobe we know offers much more than this and today they are showing just how much.

Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), the San Jose-based company's answer to building  automated, document-centric business process applications, is being unveiled today at Adobe MAX 2009. This release is packed with so many new tools and functionalities that, if you are like us, you hardly know where to begin. We gave it a good college try though. Have a look.

Adobe (news, site) moves fast. You may recall that the company recently acquired analytics provider Omniture, to the surprise of many a tech nerd.

The coupling of Adobe’s creative brand and analytics—which admittedly seemed odd at first—is already being reflected in its solutions. First off the conveyor belt is the brand new Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution. The platform gives Flash app developers more insight into how their apps are being used, and enables advertisers and content publishers alike to promote, measure and monetize their tools across the Web.

You’ve undoubtedly heard the news: yesterday, in an acquisition to end all acquisitions style, Adobe (news, site) announced definitive plans to acquire Omniture for US$ 1.8 billion. Most initial reactions involved a lot of whooping over what on the surface looks like the first step towards a complete web solutions package -- design, build, publish and monitor -- but what's really going on here?

As per usual for the speculative bunch, there’s just a tad more to it than cooler workflows and more insights.

In June we told you Yooba Studio (news, site) would be worth a first and second look for those interested in Flash-based websites but not the cost of a creative agency.

Today it seems the platform has gotten more than a look or two, as they recently landed a spot on the list of semi-finalists for Best of InsideRIA 2009, sponsored by O’Reilly Media and Adobe.

Move over Kindle, Sony is throwing its hat into the ePublishing ring. Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, has announced that it will start selling digital books only in the ePub format by the end of the year.

By adopting open standards for ePublishing developed by the International Digital Publishing Form, which are already supported by a growing number of major publishers and a growing number of reading devices, Sony will end its proprietary DRM software (that restricts how often e-books can be shared or copied) in favor of technology from the software maker Adobe.

Adobe (news, site) has announced that is has taken another two of its products targeted specifically at the media and publishing industries and gone open source with them.