Adobe LiveCycle disturbance and opportunities to step in with SharePoint and PDF forms solution

Adobe made some historic announcements last year stating they are shifting resources out of Adobe LiveCycle and putting it into their Create Suite and Web Experience Management offerings. This caused some clients to worry about their business investments, but also revealing opportunities for great alternatives. LiveCycle integrates PDF Forms and Flex/Flash Forms into an environment that includes workflow, content management, rights management, and other capabilities which are required for building forms-based solutions. But despite being successful, Adobe has decided to divest in LiveCycle...

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Adobe lays LiveCycle ES2 to dusty shelf

Updated on 01/23/2012: see Adobe’s response below. The Decision Following last summer’s announcement, Adobe® decided to scale back their enterprise product: Adobe® LiveCycle®, by putting it into a category of “legacy enterprise business segment”. This decision will surely impact every organization currently using or planning to implement Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite). The Details “Adobe will ramp down its investment and its focus on LiveCycle”, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said. LiveCycle Content Services ES2 will no longer be updated, although existing customers will...

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