Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

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Engaging beyond the enterprise

PDF and Flash® technologies come together to more effectively engage customers, constituents, partners, and employees in key business processes.

Adobe® LiveCycle® ES (Enterprise Suite) software is an integrated J2EE server solution that blends electronic forms, process management, document security, and document generation to help you create and deliver rich and engaging applications that reduce paperwork, accelerate decision-making, and help ensure regulatory compliance.

Customer successes

Business Loan Express

Leading lender boosts broker services and accelerates loan application processing using Adobe LiveCycle solutions.
Timothy McGoff, Business Loan Express

Business overview

Why LiveCycle ES

Online applications offer dramatic cost savings to your company and a more positive and productive experience for your customers, constituents, partners, and employees. But if the applications are not intuitive and lack compelling interactivity, people won't use them.

Adobe LiveCycle ES can help you:

Build more engaging experiences that scale from paper forms to rich and interactive online applications
Reduce development time with intuitive and integrated developer resources
Protect sensitive information to inspire confidence on both ends of a transaction
Extend your enterprise with new applications that span data capture, process orchestration, and document generation — inside and outside the firewall.

LiveCycle ES summary card (PDF, 541k)

LiveCycle ES White Paper (PDF, 399k)

Analyst reports

The Forrester Wave: Business Process Management For Document Processes, Q3 2007

"Adobe leads with exceptional developmental tools for rich Internet applications (RIAs) and vision for customer engagement."
The Forrester Wave, July 2007

Read the independent research firm reports:
Full report (PDF, 574k)
Adobe's summary (PDF, 208k)

The Forrester Wave: e-Forms Software, Q2 2006

"Adobe is a Leader, bringing together a user-friendly forms design environment with the ubiquitous...Reader rich client."
The Forrester Wave, June 2006

Full report (PDF, 299k)

LiveCycle ES editions

Adobe LiveCycle ES solution components can be purchased separately or as part of the following editions:

Business Transformation Edition

Develop and deliver comprehensive, end-to-end, enterprise applications.

Data Capture Edition

Create applications focused on data collection — online, offline, and beyond the firewall.

LiveCycle family of solution components

News, reviews, and awards

InfoWorld review

LiveCycle ES can "streamline IT development and reduce support costs."
InfoWorld, November 2007

Related resources

Customer Briefing Center

Why engagement is essential

Adobe and industry leaders share insights on the importance of customer engagement.

Technology overview

What is LiveCycle ES?

As an integrated server software suite, LiveCycle ES provides everything you need to develop and deliver applications in a single, standards-based environment. And because LiveCycle ES is J2EE compatible and runs on industry-standard operating systems and Java™ application servers, you can easily integrate LiveCycle ES applications with your existing IT assets.

Consisting of foundation technology, development tools, and solution components, LiveCycle ES provides everything you need to create customer engagement applications delivered through dynamic user interface (UI) technology via free and ubiquitous cross-platform clients.

More information

Foundation
Solution components
Tools
Clients
UI technologies