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Acrobat Takes One Giant Step for Collaboration

Wow -- Adobe has slowly but surely been making advances in adapting its tools for collaboration purposes, but today they make one giant leap into the collaboration space. With the debut of the new Acrobat.com beta, Adobe is putting all of its collaboration tools in one convenient, very pretty place. All of these services were previously available -- just not all on one page. Here's what you get: -- Buzzword -- Adobe's word processor is not quite as powerful as Google Docs or Zoho, but it sure is beautiful. You can create a document here, and then...... -- Show it to other people with ConnectNow, a screen-sharing program. Adobe Connect was previously only available for a fee, but now it's free to everyone. Show a document to the people at your online meeting, and as soon as you're satisfied with it you can.... -- Convert it to PDF online -- again, also a previously pay service, now you can convert up to 5 documents to PDF at a time. Once the document is now in PDF, you're ready to.... -- Share it with anyone. The Adobe Share space allows you to place files in an online storage space that others can access. Once those files have been uploaded, you can access them at.... -- The My Files space. This is where you can store not just the files you created online, but really any file, up to a certain limit. As of this morning, you may have some problems getting through to the services -- some of them were down due to heavy traffic. But keep trying -- you'll love what you see. The only complaint I have about the layout of these various services is that none of them have a navigation menu that allows me to travel to any of the other services without going back to the home page. Hopefully Adobe will solve that in future revisions of the product. I also expect Adobe to roll out some type of subscription pricing for higher levels of service in the future -- more storage space, more documents, for a couple of bucks a month. All in all, this is a great development, and I look forward to seeing where Adobe goes from here.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).