Ad: Manage updates with the Download App
ie8 fix

livecycle

Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud

This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines.

Adobe Systems said Monday that it will make its LiveCycle ES Developer Express software available on Amazon Web Services.

With the move, Adobe is using Amazon's EC2 and S3 service to create a development environment for enterprise developers to develop and test using LiveCycle without installing it. The goal appears to be to give enterprise developers a sandbox in which to play with LiveCycle. Think try before you buy.

LiveCycle combines data capture, information assurance, process management, and content services to create rich applications.

As for Amazon Web Services, … Read more

Adobe embeds open-source Alfresco in its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

Adobe and Alfresco announced a significant partnership today to embed Alfresco's content management software into Adobe's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite. The inclusion of Alfresco enriches the Adobe LiveCycle experience, as Adobe's Brian Wick notes:

For example, if a user is filling out a loan package, the application would go into the repository to package together other content related to the process.

"It's much easier, much quicker for our customers to build LiveCycle apps with the content services piece built in," Wick said.

I'm biased, but I see this as one more step to facilitating content as the center of the web/software experience. As Adobe customers like the State of Louisiana are suggesting, it makes it easy to link content to a process or application. It has wide applicability to governments, healthcare organizations, and other enterprises that need to wrap business processes around content.

It's also a great addition to Adobe's previously reported work with Alfresco, the Adobe Share product that integrates Alfresco.

Adobe notes that Alfresco was a clear choice:… Read more