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LiveCycle Process Management ES features and benefits

Adobe LiveCycle ES
Feature Benefit
Visual process and user interface design environment
  • Reduce the skill sets required to automate a business process
  • Improve communications between business analysts and developers
Centralized repository with versioning and design-time access control
  • Support large-team collaborative development
  • Revert to older versions of process components as needed
  • Meet compliance requirements by auditing changes to assets
Variety of process interaction styles
  • PDF, HTML, rich Internet application (RIA)
  • Form guide based on Adobe® Flash®
  • Online and offline
  • Reduce training costs and enable full process participation; PDF forms are accessible offline or online
  • Simplify process participation by e-mailing PDF forms that interact with processes
  • Add a RIA-style interface to familiar PDF forms through form guides
  • Engage users through highly interactive RIAs
Cross-platform user interface deployment
  • Adobe Reader®
  • Adobe Flash
  • Cut cost and deployment time: Build user interfaces once with no special coding or browser/operating system testing
  • Extend process reach by deploying process interaction in ubiquitous runtimes
Process and content security
  • Provide granular access control: Specify who can initiate, participate, and manage processes
  • Enable administrators to reassign tasks
  • Enable decision-makers to view and share confidential company information within dashboards
  • Through Adobe LiveCycle® Rights Management ES, help secure all content shared in process interactions by setting and dynamically changing policies for access control, revocation, revision control, and audit trail - even after documents and forms are sent to process participants
Content services integration
  • Automated content and process interaction
  • Content classification and advanced search
Through integration with Adobe LiveCycle Content Services ES:
  • Gain efficiency by enabling end-user interaction with documents in the content repository to transparently launch or resume the necessary processes
  • Enable process participants to easily include necessary content as part of completing their process tasks
  • Increase productivity through hierarchical content categorization and powerful searching based on the processes, forms, and content used throughout execution
  • Speed process cycle times by incorporating collaboration capabilities into process applications
PDF document generation
  • Through integration with Adobe LiveCycle PDF Generator ES and LiveCycle PDF Generator 3D ES components, automate the assembly of multimedia PDF packages and more securely share them with end users and process participants
Existing infrastructure integration
  • JCA-based adapters
  • ECM connectors
  • Out-of-box integration with LDAP, web services, databases, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, JMS, FTP
  • Reduce effort and time by automating cross-functional processes using JCA-based adapters and ECM connectors
  • Leverage existing IT assets and systems
  • Unlock business logic buried in a single system, or interface into reusable services
Rich, customizable workspace for task list management
  • Gain productivity through a central interface for initiating and participating in all processes
  • Efficiently manage works lists through search, sort, prioritization, escalation, and delegation features
  • Rapidly brand and customize the workspace through Adobe Flex® components, CSS templates, and user interface source code
End-to-end process monitoring
  • Easily troubleshoot process instances through annotated process diagrams that offer a complete record of all steps and actions taken in a process
  • Gain real-time visibility into the overall health of your processes through out-of-box process, system, and workforce key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Proactively manage customer problems and service-level agreements (SLAs) through real-time alerts based on goals and KPIs
  • Gain process insights through customizing process metrics, setting alerts, and drilling down to detailed data

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