Adobe Connect

Adobe Connect is a market-leading enterprise web conferencing solution used by leading corporations and government agencies to improve collaboration and get work done faster. Based on Adobe Flash technology, it enables you to provide rich interactions, while ensuring easy meeting entry. The solution consists of the following three components:

Adobe Connect for Web Conferencing addresses a full range of online meeting needs, from simple screen sharing to mission-critical, real-time collaboration, and allows your teams to work more efficiently, increasing productivity and helping reduce costs.
Adobe Connect for eLearning provides novices and experts alike with the capability to create and deliver compelling, self-paced online courses, conduct highly interactive virtual classes, and efficiently manage training programs.
Adobe Connect for eMarketing enables organizations to increase attendance, boost response rates, and generate more interest through rich, engaging, highly interactive online events.

Work with a simplified interface

A primary focus of Adobe Connect 8 software is usability. With a new simplified interface featuring enhanced layouts and better organized controls, accessibility functions, and one-click sharing, Adobe Connect is now more powerful and easier to use. New usability features include:

	Simplified user experience Use Adobe Connect more intuitively. With the new user interface, you can easily discover all available functions and features through better organization and prominent display of the most important and frequently used controls and capabilities.
	Enhanced audio and video controls Access audio and video controls centrally. Controls are prominently displayed and logically organized at the top of the meeting bar. All related capabilities are now centralized and easily accessible directly from each control.
	Unified attendee management Access all participant management functions from the Attendee pod. Hosts can change participant roles via drag and drop and assign rights using mouse-over controls. New views allow presenters to quickly get vote counts and control breakout sessions.
	Optimized screen use Size your screen area for optimal viewing with a new meeting interface that rescales intelligently for any screen size or resolution. Presenters can now size their own version of the presenter-only area individually without affecting the view of other presenters.
	Improved accessibility Navigate the Connect 8 interface completely via keyboard. Several hot keys are also supported for direct access to important functions. Improvements in screen reader compatibility include JAWS and Win-Eyes support and accurate focus-location tracking.

Collaborate more efficiently

To collaborate effectively, dispersed teams need to be able to share ideas and communicate freely, as well as capture decisions and results. With Adobe Connect 8, collaboration capabilities are now more flexible and robust, enabling teams to drive better results. New collaboration features include:

	Advanced chat Organize chat into separate tabs for public and private conversations to reduce errant chat messages. Participants can choose the color and text size of their chat messages. Hosts can control whether private chats are allowed in a meeting room.
	Rich Notes pod Use rich formatting capabilities in the Notes pod, such as bold, colors, and bullets. Productivity and accessibility improvements include keyboard shortcuts and the ability to save notes as an RTF file that can be emailed to participants from within the pod.
	Simplified Q&A pod Easily manage questions between multiple presenters during meetings. Presenters now have their own view for managing and answering questions and can assign/reassign questions, see who is answering, or answer the question privately or publicly.
	Enhanced Whiteboard Collaborate more effectively with enhanced Whiteboard tools, including the ability to create custom shapes and to easily add text to shapes. The whiteboard can also be used in the overlay mode on top of a shared document.

Enjoy rich audio and video experiences

Adobe Connect 8 enables you to provide rich multimedia experiences for participants with integrated audio and video conferencing. New features include:

	Two-way Universal Voice Bridge the audio from any audio conferencing provider into an Adobe Connect room and provide two-way communication between VoIP and telephone audio to deliver richer experiences for all participants.
	Video conferencing integration Leverage existing investments in videoconferencing by integrating your video telephony devices supporting SIP/H.264 with Adobe Connect (for on-premise deployments only). Hosts can now bring a live audio/video broadcast stream directly into a meeting room.

Get improved access and extensibility

Busy professionals working on multiple projects with global teams need to be able to track down key people, instantly collaborate, and respond quickly to meet deadlines. The optional Adobe Connect Desktop client allows workers to do just that. Plus, new and enhanced plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite® 5 software, and Microsoft Communication Server clients improve productivity, as does an enhanced collaboration SDK. Access and extensibility features include:

	New optional desktop client Set up and manage meetings more easily with the new optional Adobe Connect Desktop Adobe AIR® client. Invite participants to meetings right from their desktop. You can also search for archived sessions and download and play back recordings offline.
	New and enhanced plug-ins Use the Microsoft Outlook Add-in to schedule meetings with your Outlook contacts. Using Microsoft Office Communicator, see when contacts are available, and then invite them to meet using their existing IM client, or via the Adobe Connect Desktop AIR client.
	Enhanced collaboration SDK Write to more than 100 APIs to add virtually any functionality to Adobe Connect you desire. The new SDK also supports Flex, Adobe Flash® technology, and ActionScript® 3.0 for even more engaging online collaboration.

Take advantage of increased security and enterprise support

Adobe Connect 8 is web conferencing software for the enterprise. With strengthened security capabilities and improved support for virtualization and meeting resiliency, Adobe Connect is even more suited for enterprise deployments. New features include:

	Passcode-protected meeting rooms Set and manage passcodes over some or all meeting rooms to better manage participants and control meeting access. Passcodes require meeting participants to log in, protecting sensitive information.
	Session management Manage meeting session length for strengthened security and finer-grained control of user sessions. Allow users to hold sessions for as long as necessary, while ensuring that idle sessions time out, reducing the risk of unwanted meeting access.
	Thin-client support Provide rich-media collaboration in virtualized environments with support for Citrix XenApp 6. Now organizations can deploy rich, engaging web conferencing software throughout the enterprise while enjoying the lower TCO and increased agility of thin-client virtualization.
	Ubuntu 10 Add-in Experience full-featured meeting host capabilities with a new add-in for Linux® Ubuntu users. Now Linux users have the same capabilities Windows® and Mac OS users do when hosting meetings.