Live Cycle ES2 News From Adobe MAX

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Adobe® LiveCycle® ES2™

AfterMAX - SilvaFUG (SJ) and Silicon Valley Web Builders10/22/09

Matthias Zeller

Group Product Manager

@matzeller

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Customer Interaction Applications

Enterprise Internal Applications

Enterprise Software

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CRM ERP PLM VerticalApps

- User Centric Applications Emerge

Customers Citizens

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LiveCycle ES2: Platform for Building User-Centric Applications

EXISTING APPLICATIONS & SYSTEMS

Legacy Systems

Enterprise Information

SystemsDatabases

Directories

Message Queues

ECM Repository

Cloud-Based Services

DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY

RICH CLIENT BROWSER RICH DOCUMENT

RIA SERVICES DOCUMENT SERVICESPROCESS MANAGEMENT

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What’s New – RIA Services

LiveCycle Mosaic ES2

Assemble intuitive, personalized and highly productive applications

through a composite RIA framework

LiveCycle Collaboration

Service

Hosted service to build real-time, multi-user

collaboration into existing or new rich Internet applications

LiveCycle ES2 Plug-in for Flash

Builder 4

Discover and consume RIA services in any

Flex-based application

Adobe application modeling

technology

Simplify integration between Flex and LiveCycle allowing developers to write

applications at a higher level with less code


Increased developer productivity

LiveCycle® Workbench ES2™

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Enhancements: LiveCycle Workbench ES2 Core

Application model Organize all application assets

Export LiveCycle Archives (LCA) that contain one or more applications with all relevant assets

Asset source and version control Work on a local copy of application assets using

check-in/check-out

Dramatically reduces client/server chattiness

Work large development team environments

Application deployment Deploy your applications to LiveCycle server

without leaving Workbench

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New: Adobe Application Modeling Technology

Common tool for Flash Builder 4 and LiveCycle ES2

Define data models that can be shared between LiveCycle ES and Data Services ES

Visual design of data structure and application logic

Define data constructs that include more than simple constraints

Create simple or complex data models that contain variants, expressions, calculations, etc.

Codeless application development Build “create, read, update and delete”

(CRUD) applications without writing any code

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Enhancements: Guide Builder

Complete redesign of Guide Builder

Access Guide Builder as a perspective in Workbench

Intuitive Flash-based development interface

Guided forms now based on new Adobe Data Model

Create form agnostic guides

Added flexibility and use cases

Zero code guide design Leverage the business logic contained

in the data model at runtime

Create conditional guide behaviors with simple property pages

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LiveCycle® Mosaic ES2™

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Mosaic, New LiveCycle Module

Composite RIA Framework for rapidly assembling intuitive, personalized and activity-centric RIA applications that aggregate existing enterprise applications

Increased productivity Increase end user productivity through

simple, personalized, highly responsive and consistent user experience

Improved decision making• Make faster decisions through

aggregating relevant, timely information from multiple sources

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For Business Users

Easy access via desktop (AIR) application or browser

Task-centric composite views bringing complete context to daily work

Create new composite views from IT provided tiles

Customizable views & dynamic layouts

Work on tasks with different contexts in parallel and persist work in progress

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For Developers:

Composition approach to application development

Comprehensive ActionScript and JavaScript API

Client side communication between application components

Central catalog for housing all reusable application components

Out-of-the box skins, shells and layout managers

Pluggable component model

Integrates with existing SSO, directory and entitlement management solutions

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Target Use Cases

Case Management:

• User environment uniting all case information to speed case resolution

• Ex: call center applications, case worker

• Sample Tiles: Customer contacts, Reported bug defects, internal knowledge base

Financial Advisor Workplace:

• Rich, simple and customizable workplace

• Contextual views unifying over 200 applications

• Sample Tiles: Investment portfolio, Google finance, salesforce.com

Sales Workplace:

• Unified customer views aggregating all relevant customer data

• Sample Tiles: Customer contacts, order history, RFP Responses, opportunity list, account hierarchy and contacts,

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Flexible Deployment

Hosted Deployment Possibilities for Adobe® LiveCycle® ES2™

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Develop in the Cloud

• Pre-configured LiveCycle sandboxes on Amazon EC2 Members only: using own

dedicated instances Forums and assistance

• Used to host LiveCycle ES2 Beta Program

• Used for LiveCycle Training Users can follow an instructors

guided tour easily with their own instance

“Designer in 8 had this great ability with fragments, but …. now it becomes something quite exquisite! It was my first time working in the cloud and loved it… For us, the cloud is where it’s at.” - Janus Health

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Deploy in the Cloud

Targeted for Early 2010

Develop on Developer Express, Deploy on Production Express

Fully Managed Hosted Environment, 24x7 Monitoring

Secure, Isolated Instances on Amazon Web Services

Benefits:

Reduce Upfront Cost and Capital Expenditures

Speeds Time to Deployment

Pay As You Grow Pricing

LiveCycle Production Express

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Call to Action

Interested to provide feedback into our Enterprise RIA roadmap Matthias Zeller: [email protected]

Visit labs.adobe.com for: Access to Flash Builder Beta

Access to LiveCycle Data Services Beta

Videos, quick starts, etc

Visit adobe.com/devnet/livecycle for: Access to LiveCycle ES trials

LiveCycle Café

Tour de LiveCycle

Includes hosted beta

Includes Feature Spotlight videos

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

http://labs.adobe.com/

http://adobe.com/devnet/livecycle




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