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Enterprise Partners

In partnership with leading technology companies and systems integrators, Adobe helps organizations extend the value of core applications throughout the enterprise using Intelligent Documents. By integrating Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Acrobat® software, and server capabilities into their enterprise business systems, our partners help companies simplify data capture; streamline business processes; and better understand and interact with their employees, partners, suppliers, and customers.

Featured Partner

IBM

IBM and Adobe provide organizations with an unparalleled business process management platform offering simple design and deployment of intelligent, dynamic forms and form processes that are fully integrated into the ECM platform. Learn more.


Enterprise Content Management

IBM

About the company: IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key IBM business partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions, and technologies.

About the partnership: Adobe and IBM are jointly developing solutions to help organizations improve data capture and document generation and to speed document delivery across the enterprise.

For more information, visit the Adobe and IBM partner page or the IBM Web site.


Documentum

About the company: A world leader in enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, Documentum provides an ECM platform that 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 — using one common content platform and repository.

About the partnership: The Adobe forms and Documentum ECM platform enables organizations to automate forms-driven business processes to increase productivity and reduce inefficiencies. The two companies also provide a powerful solution for simplifying collaboration across the extended enterprise, by integrating Adobe PDF and Adobe Acrobat software's review and commenting capabilities within the Documentum environment. Documentum is also an OEM partner for Adobe Distiller® Server and Adobe Graphics Server software.

For more information, visit the Adobe and Documentum partner page or the Documentum Web site, or call +1-925-600-6754.


Open Text

About the company: Open Text is the market leader in providing ECM solutions that bring together people, processes, and information in global organizations. Open Text's flagship product, Livelink, seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organizations transform information into knowledge to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance, and accelerated growth.

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 Adobe Acrobat. Open Text is also an Acrobat reseller.

For more information, visit the Open Text Web site.

Enterprise Resource Planning

SAP AG

About the company: SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market. Adobe and SAP AG announced a global technology and go-to-market agreement aimed at automating and streamlining document-based communications that companies rely on to run their businesses.

About the partnership: Adobe and SAP share a common vision: to automate and streamline the paper-based communications that companies rely on to run their businesses. By integrating Adobe PDF technology into its solutions, SAP further extends its offerings of end-to-end business solutions by providing interactive PDF-based forms, presenting enhanced printing capabilities, and integrating PDF documents into business processes driven by SAP applications.

For more information about the SAP and Adobe partnership, visit the Adobe and SAP partner page or the SAP Web site.

Product Lifecycle Management

Bentley

About the company: Bentley Systems Inc. is a global provider of collaborative software solutions that enable users to create, manage, and publish architectural, engineering, and construction (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.

About the partnership: Adobe and Bentley share a common goal of improving document workflows for AEC professionals by moving traditional paper-based exchanges to electronic document processes. This ultimately improves design quality and lowers costs. With Adobe Acrobat 6.0 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.

For more information, visit the Adobe and Bentley partner page or the Bentley Web site.


PTC

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.

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 based upon Adobe PDF.

For more information, visit the PTC Web site.


UGS PLM Solutions (an EDS company)

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. UGS PLM's Teamcenter solution is the PLM digital enterprise backbone, uniting product knowledge with process innovation to deliver business value at the highest level — profitability.

About the partnership: By integrating Adobe PDF capabilities into its 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.

For more information, visit the UGS PLM Solutions Web site or watch the movie (QuickTime: 5.6M).

Document security

Entrust

About the company: Entrust Technologies Inc. is a global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business relationships by securing and managing transactions.

About the partnership: Adobe and Entrust have been working together since Adobe Acrobat 4.0 in 1999 and have many successful joint customers. Entrust certificates are supported in the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 family line (Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Elements, and Adobe Reader®) and also through a plug-in for added security in digital signatures and encryption.

For more information, visit the Entrust Web site.


RSA Security

About the company: Over 13 million users in more than 11,000 organizations use RSA authentication solutions to protect corporate data and resources by creating online identities, access rights, and privileges for people, applications, and devices.

About the partnership: To simplify deployment and use of digital certificates for secure and cost-effective e-business, RSA Security now enables Adobe Acrobat 6.0 users to digitally sign and encrypt PDF files using certificates issued by RSA Keon Certificate Authority software.

For more information, visit the RSA Web site.


VeriSign

About the company: VeriSign Inc. is a leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers, and individuals.

About the partnership: The Adobe Acrobat 6.0 family supports VeriSign certificates for digital signatures and targeted encryption. In addition, VeriSign's public LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server is exclusively preinstalled in the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 family of products to simplify business-to-business and business-to-commerce secure document exchanges.

For more information, visit the VeriSign Web site.

For information about more Adobe security partners, visit the Adobe Security Partners page (US).

Systems integrators

Accenture

About the company: Accenture is the world's leading management consulting and technology services company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them realize their visions and create tangible value. With deep industry expertise, broad global resources, and proven experience in consulting and outsourcing, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies.

About the partnership: Adobe and Accenture are working together on the development of the Accenture eGov Accelerator, which provides a set of tools and services that allow companies to quickly move from publishing forms on the Web to Web-based transactional services.

For more information, visit the Accenture Web site.


Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

About the company: TCS is India's largest IT enterprise and the largest independent software and services organization in Asia with clients in over 55 countries worldwide. TCS is truly transnational in character and reach — with 100 global branches that employ over 24,000 consultants — and provides IT and business consulting services to organizations in government, business, and industry.

About the partnership: TCS integrates and resells Adobe products as part of its enterprise solution offerings, addressing the document generation, collaboration and process management challenges organizations face as they move paper-based processes online.

For more information, visit the TCS Web site.


Wipro Technologies

About the company: Wipro Technologies, a global technology services division of Wipro Ltd., provides corporations with comprehensive IT solutions and research and development services including systems integration, IS outsourcing package implementation, software application development and maintenance, hardware and software design, development, and implementation.

About the partnership: Wipro and Adobe are developing solutions targeted at key industry verticals such as finance, banking, insurance, and manufacturing to enable companies to quickly automate paper-based processes using Adobe PDF technologies.

For more information, visit the Wipro Web site.

Acrobat partners

In partnership with other leading technology companies, Adobe provides enhanced solutions for Adobe Acrobat users and developers.

For more information, visit the Acrobat partner solutions page (US).

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