Adobe and SAP

Accelerating user productivity with engaging user experiences for SAP solutions

Since 2002, Adobe and SAP have been collaborating to develop leading-edge user experiences for SAP solutions that accelerate user productivity across functional areas and business processes and extend the reach of SAP solutions within an enterprise and beyond corporate firewalls. Adobe engagement technologies such as interactive PDF forms; Flash based, rich client, front-end applications developed with Flex; and scalable, human-centric web and video conferencing with Acrobat Connect Pro are taking user productivity with SAP solutions to the next level.

Taking control of form-based processes

The integration of Adobe PDF capabilities with the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform has placed SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe at the heart of projects around the world to automate form-based processes, eliminate paper throughout an organization, and keep compliant with government initiatives. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe enable end-to-end workflows with rich and intelligent common user experiences for online and offline use to

• Increase user productivity
• Extend SAP business processes to every computer with Adobe Reader® software
• Increase trust in documents and data anywhere in the process

Rapid training with SAP Enterprise Learning

SAP Enterprise Learning combines the SAP Learning Solution, a comprehensive solution for enterprise learning, with Acrobat Connect Pro — a scalable, highly customizable, and extensible web and video conferencing solution from Adobe. The combined solution enables human-centric, virtual classrooms to maximize training efficiency, and it accelerates knowledge transfer throughout the enterprise. To further accelerate the efficiency of distributed teams, Acrobat Connect Pro is also available from SAP as a standalone solution for enterprise-class web conferencing.

Web 2.0 today

Flex is an Internet application framework based on Flash that enables developers to create highly expressive, interactive, and scalable rich Internet applications (RIAs). Flex applications run across platforms, within browsers, or as desktop applications and inside an enterprise or across the web. Today Flex technology powers SAP xApp Analytics with NetWeaver Visual Composer, which allows model-based rapid development and prototyping of portal applications without the need to develop any code. SAP has further integrated the Adobe Flash Platform with the NetWeaver user interface framework Web Dynpro, enabling developers to create enhanced, custom user interfaces for rich clients and on top of SAP back-end applications.