Adobe has partnerships in the following areas:
Enterprise content management (ECM)
EMC Documentum
About the partnership: EMC and Adobe provide a powerful solution, PDF Annotation Services, for simplifying collaboration across the extended enterprise by integrating Adobe® PDF and Adobe Acrobat® software's review and commenting capabilities within the EMC Documentum environment. Customers can also extend the value of their ECM investment with Adobe Form Server for Documentum, enabling the automation of their forms-based business processes.
About the company: Documentum provides ECM solutions as part of EMC Corporation's information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. With a single platform, Documentum enables people to collaboratively create, manage, deliver, and archive the content that drives business operations — from documents and discussions to e-mail, web pages, records, and rich media.
Interwoven
About the partnership: Interwoven's Collaborative Document Management solution features Adobe Acrobat Elements Server software for PDF file creation. Interwoven WorkSite MP's Adobe PDF server combines the Interwoven WorkSite MP information repository and the Acrobat Elements Server rendition engine to improve the document publishing process while ensuring the fidelity of its results. Together, Interwoven and Adobe allow rapid and easy conversion of documents to be managed, shared, and revised in a standardized and secure environment, simplifying workflow.
About the company: Interwoven, Inc., a provider of ECM solutions for business, enables organizations to unify people, content, and processes to minimize business risk, accelerate time to value, and sustain lower total cost of ownership. Interwoven delivers deep industry-specific solutions that reduce business process cycle time from initial collaboration through design, production, sales, marketing, legal review, IT, and service.
Open Text
About the partnership: Adobe and Open Text provide enhanced review and commenting capabilities for enterprise collaboration through the integration of Open Text's Livelink Review Manager with Acrobat. This module provides a way for life sciences companies to more securely carry out multiple simultaneous reviews of regulatory documents that are in PDF.
About the company: Open Text is a market leader in providing ECM solutions that bring together people, processes, and information in global organizations. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth.
Government
U.S. Green Building Council
About the partnership: The LEED Green Building Rating System is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance green buildings. Members of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) representing all segments of the building industry developed LEED and continue to contribute to its evolution. Adobe and the U.S. Green Building Council have teamed up to streamline the LEED rating system documentation and certification process using Adobe LiveCycle® and Acrobat software. Building project teams can now complete and submit LEED certification forms online in Adobe PDF.
About the company: The USGBC is the nation's leading coalition of corporations, builders, universities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations working together to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places in which to live and work. Since its founding in 1993, the USGBC has grown to more than 5,700 member companies and organizations; a 60-person professional staff; a broad portfolio of LEED programs and services; the industry's popular Greenbuild International Conference and Expo; and a network of more than 60 local chapters, affiliates, and organizing groups.
Imaging
Agfa
About the partnership: Agfa has been a valued Adobe partner since the early days of Adobe PostScript®. Agfa's Apogee X print workflow system was one of the first systems on the market to support a full PDF workflow.
About the company: Agfa develops, manufactures, and distributes analog and digital products and systems for the creation, processing, and reproduction of images for health care, the printing industry, and other areas such as micrography and motion pictures.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
About the partnership: Fujitsu's scanner solutions are bundled with Acrobat Standard, offering users the features and functionality to create, secure, share, review, and archive PDF files.
About the company: Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., is an established leader in the document imaging market, featuring state-of-the-art scanning solutions and services in the workgroup, departmental, and production-level scanner categories. The entire line of Fujitsu scanners delivers speed, image quality, paper handling, and true ease of integration with other imaging applications.
HP
About the partnership: Adobe and HP are enabling technical professionals to simplify business processes and communicate better by increasing the speed and timeliness of document sharing, reducing costs throughout the project lifecycle by standardizing on HP Designjet large-format printers and Adobe Acrobat for all document printing and collaboration, and ensuring the fidelity and quality of electronic and printed content.
About the company: HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31, 2005, HP revenue totaled $81.8 billion.
Kodak NexPress
About the partnership: Kodak NexPress licenses Adobe PostScript 3™ and Adobe PDF solutions as part of its development and delivery of robust and reliable monochrome and color print solutions for the on-demand print production markets. These solutions include the Digimaster series and NexPress 2100 systems and supporting workflow components such as Kodak Smartboard document mastering software.
About the company: Kodak NexPress's mission is to develop, manufacture, and deliver the best digital-production color-printing solutions in the world for commercial printers, digital service bureaus, and other graphic arts businesses. NexPress's vision is to shape the future of printed communications, enabling new applications and professional imaging that propel growth in the industry, add more value to the printed page, and generate greater profits for businesses.
Xerox
About the partnership: Xerox's FreeFlow digital workflow solutions, designed as the front-end workflow solution set for reliable delivery of content in a print workflow, are powered by Adobe's full complement of PDF workflow components including Acrobat, PDF libraries, the Normalizer, Acrobat Distiller® Server software, and Adobe PDF JobReady software. FreeFlow solutions target strategic points of entry into production and provide connectivity — through open interfaces and standards across the full output production chain — between process and business management components.
About the company: Xerox is the world's largest developer and manufacturer of digital print systems for the graphic communications market, serving the needs of the in-plant, commercial, and CRD market sectors.
Mobile
ACCESS
About the partnership: ACCESS has integrated Adobe Reader® software into a future version of its NetFront Web browser. The companies will give consumers and professionals the power to view and interact with Adobe PDF files online and offline from alternative devices such as 3G phones.
About the company: ACCESS is a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access technologies to the beyond-PC market. Its NetFront browser, widely recognized as one of the most advanced Internet browsers in the world, is a cornerstone of the company's vision of making the ubiquitous Internet a reality.
EFI
About the partnership: EFI uses Adobe PDF as well as workflows based on Adobe PDF extensively throughout its solutions, including EFI Fiery and EFI OneFlow. Adobe PDF and Adobe print driver technologies make EFI PrintMe a powerful and convenient printing solution worldwide. PrintMe is the first comprehensive mobile and Internet printing solution that allows people to print from any wireless device without cables, drivers, or complex setup.
About the company: EFI is a world leader in digital imaging and print management solutions for commercial and enterprise printing. EFI's award-winning technologies offer document management tools from creation to print, including high-fidelity color and black-and-white Fiery print servers that can output up to 2,000 pages per minute, powerful production workflow and print management information software solutions for increased performance and cost efficiency, and an array of business-critical enterprise and mobile printing solutions.
Intel
About the partnership: Intel recently recognized Adobe's importance in the mobile space by elevating the company to Alliance status. In the not-too-distant future, Intel believes customers in government, financial services, manufacturing, and health care will replace time-consuming, error-prone manual processes with more efficient mobile and digital processes. The Adobe Intelligent Document Platform will play an important role in this transformation, with Acrobat front and center.
About the company: Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products.
NTT DoCoMo
About the partnership: Adobe and NTT DoCoMo have announced that Adobe Reader LE software will be made available for NTT DoCoMo's 3G FOMA handsets, providing customers of the popular i-mode service with access to high-impact, reliable content delivered in Adobe PDF. Utilizing Adobe Reader LE technology, i-mode customers will be able to view and interact with a wide range of new business and entertainment content, making their mobile Internet experience easier, more productive, and more secure.
About the company: Japan's premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers. NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology, the new de facto global industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service.
Product lifecycle management (PLM) and CAD
Agile
About the partnership: Adobe and Agile provide an integrated review and commenting solution based on Acrobat. This combined solution enables manufacturing companies to better execute outsourcing across the product lifecycle process and to quickly respond to changing market and customer demands. The review and commenting solution connects documents, people, and processes through reliable document exchange within the enterprise and across the extended value chain. Agile and Adobe also offer an integrated forms solution.
About the company: Agile Software, a leader in PLM, provides solutions that enable companies to work with their customers and suppliers to build better, more profitable products faster and at a lower cost.
Bentley
About the partnership: Adobe and Bentley share a common goal of improving document workflows for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals by moving traditional paper-based exchanges to electronic document processes. This ultimately improves design quality and lowers costs. With Acrobat 7.0 Professional, customers will be able to create Adobe PDF files from Bentley's MicroStation-based solutions, ensuring a more reliable and secure exchange of engineering documents.
About the company: Bentley Systems Inc. is a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable users to create, manage, and publish AEC content. Bentley software solutions are used to design, engineer, build, and operate large projects, such as roadways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants, and utility networks.
PTC
About the partnership: Adobe and PTC enable manufacturing companies to better manage the product lifecycle process and get to market faster by connecting documents, people, and workflows through a reliable review process within the organization and across the enterprise that is based on Adobe PDF.
About the company: PTC is a leading provider of product development software solutions that help manufacturers create innovative products, shorten product development time, decrease costs, and establish and maintain a competitive advantage.
SolidWorks
About the partnership: SolidWorks and Adobe share a common goal of enabling people and organizations to communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely on 3D CAD models in order to design better products. As SolidWorks continues to help more customers realize the benefits of moving from 2D drafting to 3D CAD modeling, Adobe’s platform solution enables those users to share and collaborate on rich documents including text, 2D, and 3D data with anyone — not just CAD experts and engineers. This partnership provides customers with a competitive differentiator that helps to increase design engineers' productivity and to accelerate new product design cycle timelines.
About the company: SolidWorks develops and markets software for design, analysis, and product data management. It is the leading supplier of 3D CAD technology, giving teams intuitive, high-performing software that helps them design better products. For the latest news, information, or an online demonstration, visit the company’s website (www.solidworks.com) or call 800-693-9000 (outside of North America, call +1-978-371-5000).
UGS
About the partnership: By integrating Adobe PDF capabilities into Teamcenter solutions, Adobe and UGS PLM Solutions help users collaborate more effectively throughout the product lifecycle, accelerating time to market and reducing development costs. The extended enterprise benefits from a wide range of document services, such as reliable document creation, assembly, review, markup, and exchange.
About the company: UGS PLM Solutions offers a unified approach to extended enterprise collaboration that enables all participants in the product lifecycle to work in concert to bring products to market.
Search
Yahoo!
About the partnership: Adobe and Yahoo! have announced a broad relationship aimed at providing consumer services to Internet users. Through the course of the relationship, Adobe and Yahoo! will release a variety of products to bridge the worlds of online and offline content and to make information easier to find and use. These products and services will include a co-branded Yahoo! toolbar that provides easy access to the Create Adobe PDF Online service for consumers and small businesses, as well as access to other Adobe and Yahoo! products and services. Yahoo! Search is the default search provider in Adobe Reader 7.0 software.
About the company: Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide.
Security
Adobe security partners
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