Comprehensive web communications
Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro software is a flexible web communications system with strong security features that provides enterprise solutions for training, marketing, sales, and enterprise collaboration. These solutions are available as a hosted subscription service or as licensed software that can be deployed on-site, behind a firewall, or by a managed services provider in a FISMA-compliant environment. Explore the capabilities of Acrobat Connect Pro Server and the Acrobat Connect Pro modules: Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting, Acrobat Connect Pro Training, Acrobat Connect Pro Events, and Acrobat Connect Pro Webcast.
Acrobat Connect Pro software architecture
Acrobat Connect Pro Server
Acrobat Connect Pro Server is available as licensed software for managing on site, or by a managed services provider in a FISMA-compliant environment, and as a hosted subscription service. Acrobat Connect Pro Server integrates real-time and on-demand communications and provides user administration, tracking, reporting, and integrated content management across all Acrobat Connect Pro applications through a fully searchable content library. Acrobat Connect Pro Server offers true enterprise-class scalability, with support for single-server or clustered environments, providing reliable redundant deployment that can support thousands of concurrent users. Acrobat Connect Pro is open and extensible through industry-standard APIs.
Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting
Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting delivers real-time meetings and seminars that participants can access via a web browser with the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, installed on over 98% of Internet-enabled desktops. Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting provides unmatched support for sharing rich content, including streaming audio, video, and software simulations, and it enables multiperson video conferencing. You can save Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting custom meeting rooms and their content automatically for access at a later time. This archiving capability can dramatically reduce preparation time for recurring seminars, team meetings, and sales presentations.
Acrobat Connect Pro Training
Acrobat Connect Pro Training provides everything training professionals need to manage, deploy, and track highly engaging online training that's easy for participants to access via a web browser. Comprehensive curriculum management capabilities enable integration of both live and self-paced courses, including courses created with other authoring tools. Track user completion and course results using convenient dashboard reports, or view class data at a more detailed level, down to individual learners or questions.
Acrobat Connect Pro Events
The Acrobat Connect Pro Events module manages user registration, qualification, notification, automatic e-mail reminders, and tracking for large online seminars and presentations. You can easily customize online registration forms, events listings, and information pages to reflect corporate branding. Acrobat Connect Pro Events generates detailed reports on attendee demographics, registrations, attendance, and answers to both registration survey responses and in-session polls.
Acrobat Connect Pro Webcast
With Acrobat Connect Pro Webcast, you can host large online events that reach up to 80,000 attendees. The Adobe Event Services team works with your team to promote success through every phase of your event. This includes planning, training, rehearsal, event support, and postevent management.
Adobe Presenter
Adobe Presenter software enables Microsoft PowerPoint authoring of narrated, self-paced eLearning courses and on-demand presentations. The software also provides support for high-impact content through adaptive streaming of audio and video. Trainers and nontechnical subject matter experts can use their PowerPoint skills to develop professional-quality eLearning courses complete with voice-overs, prerecorded video, interactive simulations, and formal assessments. Adobe Presenter courses can also be delivered and tracked by SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC-compatible Learning Management Systems (LMSs).
Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate® software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, robust quizzes, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills. Based on industry-leading Adobe Flash technology, Adobe Captivate 3 automatically generates interactive Flash Player compatible content for easy online distribution and access (SCORM and AICC standards are fully supported for LMS integration). Using the software's simple point-and-click interface and automated features, learning professionals, educators, and business and enterprise users can easily record onscreen actions, add eLearning interactions, create complex branching scenarios with feedback options, and include rich media.
Other authoring tools
Users can integrate content authored in other Adobe eLearning tools with their Adobe Presenter presentations and Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting sessions, including content created with Adobe Dreamweaver® and Flash software. Acrobat Connect Pro Server also helps deliver and track third-party AICC-compliant content.
APIs and SDKs
The Acrobat Connect Pro web communications system is highly customizable and extensible, with support for custom branding, directory services integration, system extensibility, bidirectional data integration, and meeting extensibility, as well as systemwide compliance and control. Developers can use published APIs to integrate web communication capabilities with the application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, content management systems, and other corporate systems. In addition, the Acrobat Connect Pro Collaboration Builder software development kit (SDK) provides unique support for custom meeting applications and components, enabling developers to incorporate external data and functionality directly into the Acrobat Connect Pro experience.
