Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Visionary Leader of BPM: Adobe LiveCycle




Product Review:  Adobe LiveCycle


Slogan:  "Automate processes and improve communications"



URL:  http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/


Summary: [Summary Card]


Adobe LiveCycle is made up of 3 business process management tools:  Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring, and Content Services.  The business process management tools are only a portion of the entire package, which also includes an RIA portion (rich internet application) and Document Services for communication, forms, and security features.


"Streamline your enterprise business processes" [1]  The Process Management suite is extremely versatile and contains many ideal capabilities such as a visual process and UI design environment, a centralized repository with versioning, and a "design once, deploy anywhere" work flow.  The PM suite also also for complete customization via Flex programming for the more tech savvy developers but still has advanced code-less deployment as well.

"Maximizing Business Performance with BAM" [2]  The Business Activity Monitoring suite is also completely customizable and has event-driven decision making.  BAM is made up of a dashboard, a workbench, an Analytics Server, and rights management that all work together in tandem.  BAM uses SQL-based semantics to combine events and content in the workbench to meet deliverables in the dashboard.

"Share, Manage, and Retain Content" [3]  The last big piece for BPM in LiveCycle is the Content Management system, which allows you to manage content through enterprise libraries and content connectors.  It enables you to streamline your content reviews and archive content based on retention policy.  And since it's an Adobe product it enables the auto-transformation of content into Adobe PDF files.

(Pictures courtesy of http://www.liventerprise.com/tool/Adobe_LiveCycle_ES/)

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