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Last updated 1/15/2015
Chapter 2: 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.