Web-based collaboration tools such a WebEx and Microsoft SharePoint have made steady gains in government, as agencies grow more comfortable with online security technologies. Macromedia Breeze was also making inroads before Adobe Systems Inc. acquired Macromedia and left us wondering what the electronic-document company would do with a conferencing tool. It turns out, Breeze will re-emerge as Adobe Acrobat Connect and be tightly integrated with Adobe’s flagship products, according to Rebecca Chisolm-Winkler, Adobe’s director of global government markets. In conjunction with the new Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Reader 8, Connect will be designed, in part, to launch impromptu conferences while working on Adobe files. Both Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Reader 8, which are due out next month, will include one-button access to Connect, which organizations can run in-house or via a hosted service.
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Categories: Enterprise 2.0 · Government
