About Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 4

Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 4 (ES4) is an enterprise document and form platform that helps you capture and process information, deliver personalized communications, and protect and track sensitive information. LiveCycle ES4 extends business processes to your mobile workforce and clients, increasing productivity while broadening service access to any user equipped with a desktop, smartphone, or tablet. The platform provides tools required to design, implement, automate, and manage forms, documents, and processes used by your organization.

Capture and process information

With LiveCycle, you can reduce the total cost of ownership by connecting and automating critical business processes. LiveCycle helps you create easy-to-use forms and data capture interfaces, publish them on your website for users to find them, and connect them to back-end business processes and systems. People can interact with these familiar interfaces using mobile, web, desktop, and paper channels, increasing adoption rates and user satisfaction.

Communicate with Customers

LiveCycle helps generate more secure, personalized electronic and paper documents, improving user engagement and standards compliance while reducing costs. LiveCycle streamlines and improves user correspondence from creation to archival for system-generated, on-demand, or interactive communications.

Protect content

LiveCycle guards the integrity and privacy of sensitive client and organizational information. It also improves your regulatory compliance posture and user satisfaction.

Integration with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

LiveCycle provides a rich client SDK that allows client applications to invoke LiveCycle services using Java APIs. You can invoke LiveCycle Document Services from within Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) web apps and workflows using AEM LiveCycle Conenctor. It simplifies using these APIs within the OSGi environment and enables seamless invocation of LiveCycle Services.

Developing applications

Development environment
LiveCycle provides a faster time-to-value through a seamless, tightly integrated development environment for faster development. LiveCycle enables business analysts or developers to graphically define forms, documents, and processes, and their behaviors. Developers can create applications faster and more effectively collaborate using common processes and form and document fragments. The same assets can be used to target multiple environments such as desktop, mobile devices, or paper documents. Team-based features allow administrators to control access to assets. Controlled collaboration is possible through check-in and check-out capabilities.

Client runtimes
LiveCycle leverages free and ubiquitous client runtimes, so that applications are easily accessible and immediately usable by customers, constituents, partners, and suppliers. Client runtimes include the free Adobe Reader®, mobile and desktop browsers, Adobe AIR®, and Adobe Flash®. LiveCycle can also target native mobile clients by using Adobe PhoneGap.

Enterprise system integration
LiveCycle uses service-oriented architecture principles to allow easy integration with enterprise systems. It allows LiveCycle to easily exchange information with core systems of an organization and extend processes, so that they are easier to use, more familiar, productive, and can go beyond the corporate firewall.

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