Adobe Connect Meetings
Adobe® ConnectTM for Web Meetings Improve collaboration within your enterprise
Adobe Connect for Web Meetings enables you to significantly improve collaboration, both inside and outside your organisation's firewalls. Use Adobe Connect for a full range of online meeting needs, from simple screen sharing all the way to mission-critical, real-time collaboration. Adobe Connect allows your teams to work more efficiently and effectively, increasing productivity and helping to reduce costs.
Ensure easy meeting access for all participants
Today there is a growing need to collaborate with a variety of individuals such as customers, partners, and colleagues-in multiple locations, across different hardware platforms and operating systems, on networks with varying bandwidth capacities, in real time and asynchronously. Adobe Connect software makes all this possible, enabling you to:
• Ensure participants can join meetings instantly without the need for additional downloads because Adobe Connect is based on Adobe Flash® technology. Adobe Flash Player software is already installed on virtually all Internet-connected computers.
• Enable even first-time users to participate and become productive immediately without training.
• Enable convenient meeting access from a variety of mobile devices with Adobe Connect Mobile software.
• Record meetings for future viewing and provide recorded meetings that retain the rich functionality of a live meeting.
Enable rich, highly collaborative interactions so your teams can complete work faster
At the heart of Adobe Connect is its ability to significantly improve collaboration in the enterprise. With Adobe Connect, meeting hosts leverage a robust set of capabilities to drive highly effective, collaborative interactions. You can use Adobe Connect to:
• Support virtually any online meeting scenario, from simple one-to-one ad hoc document reviews to continuous, 24x7 rooms for managing mission-critical operations.
• Leverage a broad set of collaboration capabilities with "pods" that deliver rich functionality, such as attendee management, sharing, notes, video, whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and more.
• Engage users with rich multimedia and share animated presentations, images, audio, video, and more.
• Enable high-quality video conferencing, allow live video feeds from participants, and (in on-premise deployments) stream video directly into meetings using SIP-compliant video conferencing hardware.
• Create, monitor, and manage multiple breakout rooms to focus discussions.
• Provide greater meeting accessibility for all attendees with complete keyboard navigation, screen reader support, hot keys, and closed-captioning extensions.
Manage meetings and content more effectively
With Adobe Connect, hosts have full control before and during the meeting over meeting room layout and appearance; meeting room persistence; participant roles and privileges; and content creation, storage, and access. They also have the ability to archive meetings and edit the recordings for anytime viewing. Advantages of Adobe Connect include the ability to:
• Set up meeting rooms in seconds using standard or custom-designed templates and adjust on-the-fly.
• Give attendees single-click URL access to meetings and manage participant privileges in real time.
• Create and maintain persistent meeting rooms to maximize efficiency and store work in progress.
• Record and edit meetings to make them available for distribution or on-demand viewing.
• Use online content libraries to more securely store and manage rich media content.
• Collaborate behind the scenes in real time with other presenters.
• Use the new optional Adobe Connect desktop Adobe AIR® client to more easily set up, manage, and attend meetings.
Meet your organisation's security features and compliance requirements
Often, individuals within your organisation will need to share confidential content with others in their web meetings. Adobe Connect provides your organization with a variety of controls to help ensure you are able to address your security and compliance needs. For example, Adobe Connect allows you to:
• Select the most appropriate deployment option for your organization: hosted, on premise, or managed service.
• Help control security and privacy with robust security features, SSL encryption, and the ability to define and control which applications can be shared.
• Manage users with your organization's LDAP server and use single sign-on (SSO) with a variety of systems.
• Manage password policies to align with your organization's security policies.
• Comply with government regulations and internal policies by safeguarding, storing, and tracking electronic communications within Adobe Connect.
Integrate with your existing systems, and extend core Adobe Connect capabilities to meet specific needs
Adobe Connect provides a variety of integration points with your existing systems. It is highly extensible and enables your organization to easily create new capabilities to address specific use cases. With Adobe Connect you can:
• Work with virtually any audio provider or teleconferencing platform for richer audio experiences and increased cost-effectiveness.
• Leverage your existing video conferencing solutions and stream video into Adobe Connect meetings by integrating with your SIP-compliant video conferencing hardware.
• Increase efficiency and productivity by integrating Adobe Connect with Microsoft Outlook and IBM® Lotus Notes.
• Integrate with Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) and Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) for instant messaging integration.
• Use Adobe Connect to integrate web communication capabilities with your corporate portals, applications, and systems.
• Customize Adobe Connect to meet specific needs with more than 100 Adobe Connect Server APIs and the Adobe Connect Meeting SDK.
• Leverage the Flex® developer community to create new capabilities and extend Adobe Connect core functionality.
Optimise scalability, performance, and usage
Adobe Connect is based on a robust and flexible architecture that delivers high performance while efficiently scaling to grow with the needs of your business. An Adobe Connect solution enables your organization to:
• Easily scale to accommodate thousands of users with support for reliable, redundant deployments.
• Optimize network efficiency with an on-premise deployment, and reduce bandwidth requirements with Adobe Connect Edge Servers.
• Manage and report on usage by configuring cost centers tracked per user.
• Track license and system capacity to report on usage, and notify system administrators when usage approaches your license threshold.
