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ECM: Adobe goes Live with Alfresco on Acrobat.com
Adobe has raised some eyebrows with the rollout of their high-volume on-line SaaS service Acrobat.com for creating and converting PDF files powered by Open Source Alfresco. One might have expected Adobe to home-grow this kind of high-profile technology or to go with a brand-name infrastructure vendor like EMC or Oracle.
Adobe’s Acrobat.com has the following capabilities:
- Adobe Buzzword. Web-based word processing for collaboration
- ConnectNow. Personal web conferencing that lets users share desktops, video and voice conferencing
- Create PDF. Service top convert files to PDF format
- Share. Web-based file-exchange hub without the need to use email.
- MyFiles. Storage for your on-line documents
This follows up on an earlier announcement by Adobe of the integration of Adobe LiveCycle ES and Alfresco ECM products.
Meanwhile, the Alfresco approach towards coming head to head with Sharepoint is winning attention:
Alfresco is ahead of the ECM pack with its SharePoint integration, says Kathleen Reidy, senior analyst at research firm The 451 Group. The most compelling short-term news is that they have that Office-level integration, Reidy says. That makes it a lot more viable for IT management to say, ‘We’re going to pull out the SharePoint Server or complement the SharePoint Server with Alfresco.’
Making the Alfresco solution unique versus other open source ECM offerings is that competing solutions require a plug-in, according to Reidy. I’m not aware of anyone else that has done that protocol-level integration at this point, she says.
