Adobe Announces Commercial Availability of Acrobat Connect Web-Hosted Service

Adobe Announces Commercial Availability of Acrobat Connect Web-Hosted Service

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate commercial availability of Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™, the first hosted web conferencing service to offer “always-on” personal meeting rooms. Acrobat Connect enables knowledge workers to instantly meet and conduct business online through real-time, interactive web conferencing that is simple to access and easy to use.

“The feedback from users during our Acrobat Connect trial the past few months has been overwhelmingly positive. It has reinforced our belief that the product stands apart from traditional web conferencing solutions in terms of ease-of-use, elegance, and the instant access it provides anyone with an Adobe Flash enabled browser,” said Tom Hale, senior vice president, Knowledge Worker Business Unit at Adobe. “Now that we’re delivering the hosted service at an extremely approachable price, we expect knowledge workers to begin making Acrobat Connect personal meeting rooms as much a part of their daily work as email and the phone.”

Unlike other web conferencing solutions, Acrobat Connect enables users to choose an easy-to-remember web address for their online personal meeting room that is unique to them, much like a phone number or e-mail address. Accessing a personal meeting room is easy and instant, requiring little more than a web browser and the ubiquitous Adobe Flash® Player software, installed on more than 97 percent of Internet-connected computers worldwide. Because there is no cumbersome software to download, knowledge workers can easily hold spontaneous, ad-hoc meetings that are virtually hassle-free to join.

“Working with manufacturers to ensure homes meet federal and state code requirements is a process heavily dependent on efficient and accurate communication and collaboration,” said Dennis Newman, general manager, Information Technology Services, PFS Corporation, an independent quality control, testing, certification, and evaluation agency serving the architecture, engineering and construction industry. “Acrobat Connect helps eliminate many of the common communication problems we’ve encountered in the past. The one-button access to Acrobat Connect from Acrobat 8 enables our staff to instantly pull clients into a web-based meeting and show them first-hand where design problems exist. Ultimately, it helps speed the process of completing projects, saving both our clients and us valuable time and money.”

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