Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 3 (ES3) is an enterprise
server platform that enables organizations to automate and streamline
business processes that span systems, business rules, and departments.
The platform provides all the tools required to design, implement,
and automate the documents and processes that are used by your organization.
Your organization can use these processes internally and with external
customers and stakeholders.
Faster time-to-value
LiveCycle provides a faster time-to-value
through a seamless, tightly integrated development environment that
utilizes LiveCycle for faster development.
Model-driven application
development in LiveCycle enables business analysts or developers
to graphically define data objects and their behaviors. They can
use these definitions to create rich user interfaces with little
or no coding. Services for managing these objects are automatically
generated; user interfaces are bound to these services by using
a simple drag-and-drop interface. The common data model allows modular
building blocks to be built for use in common workflows, resulting
in consistency and efficiency. The common data model also allows developers
to create applications faster and collaborate more effectively.
Developers can view data across processes or components and identify
the relationships between them.
LiveCycle provides streamlined
development with the reduced number of steps it takes to complete
development tasks. Team-based features allow administrators to control
which developer or development team can access which assets. Control
and collaboration is possible through check-in and check-out capabilities.
Rich user experiences
LiveCycle combines Adobe PDF and Adobe
Flex® technology to provide a unified developer
experience for creating applications that can provide more engaging user
experiences.
Guides (deprecated) minimize the skill set required
for building processes and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). For
example, business analysts can now create Guides (deprecated) based
on the data model they define without help from a developer. Business
analysts can preview and quickly create Guides (deprecated) and
submit them to a workflow with virtually no coding or Java™ skills. Guides (deprecated) also provide
support for built-in validation and formatting styles for data such
as credit card numbers.
Important: Effective March
10th, 2012, Adobe is deprecating the Guides capabilities of Adobe®
LiveCycle® ES. The Guides functionality is available for upgrade
purposes only and will be removed from the product after two major
releases.
Performance and productivity
Application building blocks allow developers
to reuse components in repeatable tasks. Business users can simplify
daily tasks, customize their workspace, collaborate with others
through screen sharing, VoIP, or instant messaging.
Workbench
is an Eclipse-based development environment you can use to create and
manage business processes and the forms that are used in those processes.
