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A primary focus of Adobe® Connect® 8 software is usability. With a new simplified interface featuring enhanced layouts and better organized controls, accessibility functions, and one-click sharing, Adobe Connect is now more powerful and easier to use. New usability features include:
Simplified user experience
Use Adobe Connect more intuitively. With the new user interface, you can easily discover all available functions and features through better organization and prominent display of the most important and frequently used controls and capabilities.
Enhanced audio and video controls
Access audio and video controls centrally. Controls are prominently displayed and logically organized at the top of the meeting bar. All related capabilities are now centralized and easily accessible directly from each control.
Unified attendee management
Access all participant management functions from the Attendee pod. Hosts can change participant roles via drag and drop and assign rights using mouse-over controls. New views allow presenters to quickly get vote counts and control breakout sessions.
Optimized screen use
Size your screen area for optimal viewing with a new meeting interface that rescales intelligently for any screen size or resolution. Presenters can now size their own version of the presenter-only area individually without affecting the view of other presenters.
Improved accessibility
Navigate the Connect 8 interface completely via keyboard. Several hot keys are also supported for direct access to important functions. Improvements in screen reader compatibility include JAWS and Win-Eyes support and accurate focus-location tracking.
To collaborate effectively, dispersed teams need to be able to share ideas and communicate freely, as well as capture decisions and results. With Adobe Connect 8, collaboration capabilities are now more flexible and robust, enabling teams to drive better results. New collaboration features include:
Advanced chat
Organize chat into separate tabs for public and private conversations to reduce errant chat messages. Participants can choose the color and text size of their chat messages. Hosts can control whether private chats are allowed in a meeting room.
Rich Notes pod
Use rich formatting capabilities in the Notes pod, such as bold, colors, and bullets. Productivity and accessibility improvements include keyboard shortcuts and the ability to save notes as an RTF file that can be emailed to participants from within the pod.
Simplified Q&A pod
Enhanced Whiteboard
Collaborate more effectively with enhanced Whiteboard tools, including the ability to create custom shapes and to easily add text to shapes. The whiteboard can also be used in the overlay mode on top of a shared document.
Adobe Connect 8 enables you to provide rich multimedia experiences for participants with integrated audio and video conferencing. New features include:
Two-way Universal Voice
Bridge the audio from any audio conferencing provider into an Adobe Connect room and provide two-way communication between VoIP and telephone audio to deliver richer experiences for all participants.
Video conferencing integration
Busy professionals working on multiple projects with global teams need to be able to track down key people, instantly collaborate, and respond quickly to meet deadlines. The optional Adobe Connect Desktop client allows workers to do just that. Plus, new and enhanced plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite® 5 software, and Microsoft Communication Server clients improve productivity, as does an enhanced collaboration SDK. Access and extensibility features include:
New optional desktop client
Set up and manage meetings more easily with the new optional Adobe Connect Desktop Adobe AIR® client. Invite participants to meetings right from their desktop. You can also search for archived sessions and download and play back recordings offline.
New and enhanced plug-ins
Use the Microsoft Outlook Add-in to schedule meetings with your Outlook contacts. Using Microsoft Office Communicator, see when contacts are available, and then invite them to meet using their existing IM client, or via the Adobe Connect Desktop AIR client.
Enhanced collaboration SDK
Write to more than 100 APIs to add virtually any functionality to Adobe Connect you desire. The new SDK also supports Flex, Adobe Flash® technology, and ActionScript® 3.0 for even more engaging online collaboration.
Adobe Connect 8 is web conferencing software for the enterprise. With strengthened security capabilities and improved support for virtualization and meeting resiliency, Adobe Connect is even more suited for enterprise deployments. New features include:
Passcode-protected meeting rooms
Set and manage passcodes over some or all meeting rooms to better manage participants and control meeting access. Passcodes require meeting participants to log in, protecting sensitive information.
Session management
Manage meeting session length for strengthened security and finer-grained control of user sessions. Allow users to hold sessions for as long as necessary, while ensuring that idle sessions time out, reducing the risk of unwanted meeting access.
Thin-client support
Provide rich-media collaboration in virtualized environments with support for Citrix XenApp 6. Now organizations can deploy rich, engaging web conferencing software throughout the enterprise while enjoying the lower TCO and increased agility of thin-client virtualization.
Ubuntu 10 Add-in
Experience full-featured meeting host capabilities with a new add-in for Linux® Ubuntu users. Now Linux users have the same capabilities Windows® and Mac OS users do when hosting meetings.
Today, there is a growing need to collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues in multiple locations, across different hardware platforms and operating systems, on networks with varying bandwidth capacities, in real time and asynchronously. Adobe Connect makes all this possible with these meeting access features:
Participants join meetings instantly
Be confident that invitees will be able to join your meetings easily, without needing an additional download. Adobe Flash® Player software is already installed on virtually all Internet-connected computers.
Immediate productivity
Allow even first-time users to actively participate in meetings without training. Adobe Connect makes sophisticated capabilities visible to users as they need them, reducing the potential for confusion when attempting simple tasks.
Convenient mobile access
With Adobe Connect Mobile, enjoy convenient meeting access from a variety of mobile devices, such as the Apple iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone, as well as a host of Google Android™ devices running Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.
Recordable meetings for future viewing
Not everyone can make it to every meeting. Record meetings for later viewing that retain live meeting functionality, allowing viewing of the attendee list, access to downloadable content, and more.
At the heart of Adobe Connect is its ability to significantly improve collaboration for the enterprise. With Adobe Connect, meeting hosts leverage a robust set of capabilities to drive highly effective, collaborative interactions.
Support for virtually any online meeting scenario
Support limitless meeting scenarios, such as simple 1:1 ad hoc document reviews, weekly team meetings, rich media presentations to hundreds of attendees, planning sessions with partners, and continuous 24x7 rooms for managing mission-critical operations.
Broad set of collaboration capabilities
Activate rich, functional "pods" as needed during meetings. Standard pods include attendee, share, note, video, file share, whiteboard, web links, poll, and Q&A pods. Organizations can create custom pods as well.
Rich multimedia
Share a variety of content types including animated presentations, images, audio, video, and more. Because anyone in your meeting is already using Adobe Flash Player, attendees can view any content without additional plug-ins.
High-quality video conferencing
Enable participants to provide video feeds into the meeting – for example, from their laptop cameras. For on-premise deployments, hosts can also stream video directly into meetings using their existing SIP-compliant videoconferencing hardware such as Tandberg systems.
Breakout rooms to focus discussions
Within meetings, create multiple breakout rooms, each with its own private VoIP or telephone conference call. Customize rooms or use default templates and easily monitor breakout sessions, move between rooms, or broadcast messages to participants across room boundaries.
Accessibility
Enjoy an interface that makes it easier for visually and hearing impaired individuals to participate in meetings. The UI is completely navigable by keyboard, is friendly to screen readers, and supports hot keys for important functionality. A real-time captioning extension is also available.
For efficient collaboration, powerful content and meeting management tools and capabilities are a must. With Adobe Connect, hosts have full control over meeting room layout and appearance, meeting room persistence, participant roles and privileges, content creation, storage, and access. They also are able to archive meetings and edit the recordings for anytime viewing.
Simple meeting room set up and adjustment
Use standard meeting room templates or adjust the meeting environment to suit your specific needs. Hosts can add, delete, move, or resize meeting "pods" as needed in seconds before meetings and in real time during meetings.
Invitation and privilege management
Provide single-click URL access to log-in screens for attendees inside and outside of your firewall. Hosts can manage a full range of participant meeting privileges in real time, including such aspects as roles, sharing, chatting, and submitting questions.
Persistent meeting rooms for maximum efficiency
Set up any number of individual meeting rooms and store work-in-process in each room so that teams can pick up immediately where they left off. Users define their own persistent URLs for meeting rooms, rather than using complicated system-generated URLs.
Recording and editing for meeting reuse
Record meetings with synchronized audio – from either VoIP or telephone audio conferencing – and make them available on demand. Use simple editing tools and then make recordings available for download or offline viewing and distribution.
Content management
Store rich media content and metadata – including PowerPoint presentations, FLV, PDF, and more – in the online content library. Users can access, manage, and download content from a centralized location. Control access to confidential information with folder and security management tools.
Real-time collaboration with presenters
Conduct content preparation, whiteboarding, private chat, and layout customization with multiple presenters before and during meetings. A special presenter-only area allows sharing of content that cannot be seen by other participants.
New desktop client
Set up and manage meetings and invitations right from your desktop more easily with the new optional Adobe Connect Desktop Adobe AIR® client. You can also easily search for archived sessions and download and play back recordings offline.
Often, individuals within your organization will need to share confidential content with others in their web meetings. Adobe Connect provides a variety of controls to ensure you are able to address your security and compliance needs.
Choice of deployment options
Select from hosted, on-premise, or managed service deployment options. With our managed offering, we manage an exclusive instance of Adobe Connect for your organization. With both on-premise and managed service, organizations can implement additional security controls.
Security and privacy controls
Protect sensitive data and manage communication flows with robust security features. Disable undesired functionality, define which applications can be shared, and control access to meeting rooms. SSL encryption provides real-time protection during meetings, on-demand playback, and system upgrades.
Native LDAP support
Manage users with your organization's LDAP server. With on-premise and managed service deployments, the easy-to-use administration console enables you to configure LDAP server details, authentication methods, and advanced settings, such as timeouts and query page-size limits.
Password policy management
Manage password policies in a way that is consistent with industry best practices. Administrators can align Adobe Connect solutions with their existing security policies.
Compliance with regulations and policies
Safeguard, store, and track electronic communications to help ensure compliance with internal policies, as well as with government regulations. Enable forced recordings of all meetings, save chat transcripts, and display notices and disclaimers to all meeting participants.
Adobe Connect provides a variety of integration points with your existing systems and is highly extensible, making it possible for your organization to easily create new capabilities to address specific use cases.
Enhanced audio integration
Use Universal Voice to integrate Adobe Connect with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost effectiveness. Advanced audio capabilities are available via premiere partners PGi and InterCall as well as Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and MeetingOne.
Streaming video integration
Leverage your existing investments in video conferencing solutions including Tandberg, Polycom, and PictureTel by integrating with video telephony devices supporting SIP/H.264. Meeting hosts can now bring live audio/video broadcast streams into Adobe Connect meeting rooms.
Microsoft Outlook and IBM Lotus Notes integration
Easily schedule, start, and join Adobe Connect meetings from your Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes email and calendar. Use integrated address books, availability lookup, and recurrence features for increased efficiency and productivity.
IM integration
As a meeting host, see a list of invitees and their presence on Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS). Initiate chat conversations with LCS or OCS instant message users directly from within Adobe Connect.
Portals and applications integration
Use extensive Adobe-provided APIs to customize Adobe Connect and integrate web communication capabilities with your organization's application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, and content management systems.
Customization for specific needs
Write to more than 100 Adobe Connect Server APIs to customize the user interface, add security features, or otherwise extend functionality. Use the Adobe Connect Meeting SDK to easily access the technology-agnostic XML API to write your own extensions.
Flex developer community for new capabilities
Since Adobe Connect 8 is based on ActionScript® 3.0, you can now tap into a community of over one million Flex developers to quickly build extensions to Adobe Connect core functionality.
Enterprises, government agencies, and other large organizations work with customers, suppliers, partners, and employees that are geographically distributed. They need to be able to collaborate reliably with hundreds or even thousands of individuals in real time. Adobe Connect is based on a robust and flexible architecture that delivers high performance while efficiently scaling to grow with the needs of your business.
Reliable scalability
Take advantage of support for single‐server or clustered environments, providing reliable, redundant deployment for organizations that must support thousands of concurrent users. The system has been architected to scale to support tens of thousands of registered users.
Optimization for network load and bandwidth
With on-premise Adobe Connect deployments, much of the network load occurs on internal systems, reducing network traffic and associated costs. In addition, Adobe Connect Edge Servers can reduce bandwidth requirements and improve delivery for groups in remote locations.
Usage management and reporting
Collect usage information by minutes, rooms, training objects, storage, logins, and other parameters. Configure cost centers and apply usage charges to hosts, individuals, meetings, or any group you define.
License and capacity tracking
Configure your Adobe Connect system to automatically notify system administrators when usage approaches your license threshold. Define warnings, notifications, and email alerts. Report on system usage and license capacity.
Easily create and deploy custom training programs that mix and reuse a variety of training assets and activities. Enable nontechnical subject matter experts to create self-paced, on-demand courses directly from Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter software. Add voice-over narration and multimedia content to your presentations also using Presenter, or capture screen recordings and create interactive simulations and how-to demos using Adobe Captivate® software.
Interactive tutorials and simulations
Create engaging multimedia experiences with just a few clicks in Microsoft PowerPoint, and quickly add narration, animation, interactivity, and simulations to eLearning courses using Adobe Presenter. Add interactive simulations, branching scenarios, quizzes, and more without programming using Adobe Captivate® software.
Reusable learning assets and content libraries
Record Adobe Connect virtual classroom sessions. Download, edit, and manage course content using the fully searchable Adobe Connect content library. Choose any previously created course from the content library to teach within your virtual classroom.
Reusable layouts and templates
Save virtual classroom layouts and content as reusable templates for individual or systemwide use. Content saved in templates becomes instantly available in new virtual classrooms created from those templates.
Integration with existing content
Integrate your content with eLearning applications and leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to deliver content virtually anywhere that can be viewed at any time.
Teach and collaborate from any distance and at any time with a proven software solution that's easy to access and use. With Adobe Connect, you can deliver interactive, engaging course content to employees, partners, or customers via live virtual classrooms, self-paced learning modules, or on-demand training.
Instant access
Boost participation by eliminating technical barriers. Adobe Flash Player software is already installed on virtually all Internet-connected computers, so your audience can easily access course content via Adobe Connect.
Customizable and reusable layouts
Organize virtual classroom flow and content using customizable layouts. Easily select and arrange content windows for each layout, making the flow of your class easy and engaging.
Breakout rooms to focus discussions
Create multiple subclasses, also known as breakout rooms. Breakout room participants can speak privately within their subgroups using VoIP or telephone audio. Hosts can monitor all breakouts, move between them, and broadcast messages to all participants across room boundaries.
Simultaneous interactivity
With Adobe Connect, everyone in attendance can complete simulations and quizzes and interact with content at the same time while remaining inside the virtual classroom experience.
Interactive recorded sessions
Make sure learners who missed a session don't miss out. All interactive, hands-on components — such as quizzes, simulations, and links — remain interactive even in recorded classroom sessions and meetings.
Easily enroll users or groups in courses, curriculums, and virtual classrooms or let users browse an online catalog offered by your organization. You can also set and manage permissions to control who can see certain listings.
Enrollment management
Quickly and easily manage course or curriculum setup using robust enrollment management capabilities. Manage enrollment with automated email notifications, and optionally set approval and prerequisite processes for self-registering learners to enter courses.
Tracking individual learner progress
Enable learners to view their assigned training and easily track their individual progress through learning paths. Curriculum managers and administrators can use prerequisites and test-outs to guide access and content selection.
Course reports and assessments
Assess course effectiveness with robust reports that provide a meaningful overview of student progress. Enable authors to gauge the effectiveness of their courses through customizable reports. Slide-level and question-level feedback indicates where revisions are needed.
Security and privacy controls
Leverage industry-standard security for secure content delivery and confidential result tracking. Adobe Connect Server uses the industry standards SSL and TLS to provide 128-bit encrypted channels for HTTPS and RTMPS.
Adobe Connect provides a variety of integration points with your existing systems and is highly extensible, making it possible for your organization to easily create new capabilities to address your specific business needs.
Enhanced audio integration
Use Universal Voice to integrate Adobe Connect with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost effectiveness. Advanced audio capabilities are available via premiere partners PGi and InterCall as well as Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and MeetingOne.
LMS integration
Take advantage of integration with several of the top Learning Management System (LMS) providers to deliver enhanced online learning features and capabilities. Users can easily manage their Adobe Connect meetings and courses from within the LMS environment.
Even the most compelling webinar won't help your organization if invitees can't get into the event. With Adobe Connect, joining a webinar is as simple as clicking a link.
Participants join webinars instantly
Easy webinar access from mobile devices
Simple and automated event registration and follow up
Save time and money by automating email invitations, confirmations, reminders, and post-event communications to promote your event, keep it top of mind, and follow up with attendees.
Recordable meetings for future viewing
Not everyone can make it to a scheduled webinar. Easily record meetings for later viewing. Adobe Connect recorded meetings retain the rich functionality from live webinars, allowing viewing of the attendee list, access to downloadable content, and more.
Make your presentations stand out and captivate your audience with interactive, rich media content. As event host or presenter, you can promote direct interaction with participants and keep them engaged using real-time whiteboard discussions, polling, chat, and live Q&A.
Rich media for greater engagement
Share a variety of content types including animated presentations, images, audio, video, and more. Because anyone in your meeting is already using Adobe Flash Player, attendees can view any content via Adobe Connect without additional plug-ins.
Increased audience interaction and retention
Conduct polls, answer questions, and communicate complex ideas using images, animations, notes, whiteboards, and video. Initiate chat-based question-and-answer sessions, with complete control over the question queue, visibility, and question delegation.
Event branding
Brand your event by customizing the look and feel of your webinar. Save layouts and content as reusable templates for your own use, or share them systemwide. Create custom interactive applications using Adobe's Collaboration Builder Software Development Kit (SDK).
Real-time management and collaboration
Manage a range of participant privileges in real time including roles, sharing, chatting, and more. Conduct behind‐the‐scenes collaboration with other presenters before and during the event using a special presenter‐only area that cannot be seen by other webinar participants.
Enhanced audio experience
Use Universal Voice to integrate Adobe Connect with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost effectiveness. Advanced audio capabilities are available via premiere partners PGi and InterCall as well as Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and MeetingOne.
Choose the Adobe Connect Webcast option to scale your online event to well beyond what's possible in a face-to-face setting or via other webinar solutions. The offering includes all elements of an online event, including registration, registrant communications, in-meeting support, and online reporting. (See "Use event management services to ensure success" below for more information about bundled event management services.)
Ability to reach large audiences
Reduce the time and internal resources needed to plan, coordinate, and moderate your online events by engaging the Adobe Connect Event Services team. The team will work with you before, during, and after your online event to ensure success. The Event Services team will provide your organization with:
Event plans structured for your needs
Ensure success from the outset by using Adobe experts to assess your meeting needs, develop a customized project plan, and recommend best practices for your event. The Adobe team also works with you to create engaging, branded meeting-room layouts.
Pre-event training and rehearsal
Make sure your team, especially the presenters, understands how to use the features and functions of Adobe Connect before the event. Enlist the help of the Adobe Event Services team for training and rehearsals.
Professional support and management
Ensure that everything is working as anticipated before the event. Adobe experts test all equipment and content in advance and provide event moderation and management. Technical support is available as well for meeting participants.
Post-event metrics and intelligence
Once the webinar is over, you will receive a recording of your event, participant information, and polling results that you can review and analyze to help measure the overall effectiveness of your event.
