System Architecture
Comprehensive web communications
Adobe Connect software is a flexible web communication system with strong security features that provides enterprise solutions for training, marketing, sales, and enterprise collaboration. These solutions are available as a hosted subscription service or as licensed software that can be deployed on-site, behind a firewall. Explore the capabilities of Adobe Connect Server (licensed version or hosted service) and the three Adobe Connect modules: Adobe Connect Meeting, Adobe Connect Training, and Adobe Connect Events.
Adobe Connect Server
Adobe Connect Server is available as licensed software for managing on site or as a hosted subscription service. Adobe Connect Server integrates real-time and on-demand communications and provides user administration, tracking, reporting, and integrated content management across all Adobe Connect applications through a fully searchable content library. Adobe Connect Server offers true enterprise-class scalability, with support for single-server or clustered environments, providing reliable redundant deployment that can support thousands of concurrent users. Adobe Connect is open and extensible through industry-standard APIs.
Adobe Connect Meeting
Adobe Connect Meeting delivers real-time meetings and seminars that participants can access via a web browser with the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime, installed on 98% of Internet-enabled desktops. Adobe Connect Meeting provides unmatched support for sharing rich content, including streaming audio, video, and software simulations, and it enables multiperson video conferencing. You can save Adobe Connect Meeting custom meeting rooms and their contents automatically for access at a later time. This archiving capability can dramatically reduce preparation time for recurring seminars, team meetings, and sales presentations.
Adobe Connect Training
Adobe Connect Training provides everything training professionals need to manage, deploy, and track highly engaging online training that's easy for participants to access via a web browser. Comprehensive curriculum management capabilities enable integration of both live and self-paced courses, including courses created with other authoring tools. Track user completion and course results using convenient dashboard reports or view class data at a more detailed level, down to individual learners or questions.
Adobe Connect Events
The Adobe Connect Events module manages user registration, qualification, notification, automatic e-mail reminders, and tracking for large online seminars and presentations. You can easily customize online registration forms, events listings, and information pages to reflect corporate branding. Adobe Connect Events generates detailed reports on attendee demographics, registrations, attendance, and answers to both registration survey responses and in-session polls.
Adobe® Presenter
Adobe® Presenter software enables Microsoft PowerPoint authoring of narrated, self-paced eLearning courses and on-demand presentations. The software also provides support for high-impact content through adaptive streaming of audio and video. Trainers and nontechnical subject-matter experts can use their PowerPoint skills to develop professional-quality eLearning courses complete with voice-overs, prerecorded video, interactive simulations, and formal assessments. Adobe Presenter courses can also be delivered and tracked by SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC-compatible learning management systems.
Adobe® Captivate™
Adobe® Captivate® software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, robust quizzes, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills. Based on industry-leading Adobe Flash technology, Adobe Captivate 3 automatically generates interactive Flash Player compatible content for easy online distribution and access (SCORM and AICC standards are fully supported for LMS integration). Using the software's simple point-and-click interface and automated features, learning professionals, educators, and business and enterprise users can easily record onscreen actions, add eLearning interactions, create complex branching scenarios with feedback options, and include rich media.
Other authoring tools
Users can integrate content authored in other Adobe eLearning tools into their Adobe Presenter presentations and Adobe Connect Meeting sessions, including Adobe® Dreamweaver® and Adobe Flash content. Adobe Connect Server also helps you deliver and track third-party AICC-compliant content.
APIs and SDKs
The Adobe Connect web communications system is highly customizable and extensible, with support for custom branding, directory services integration, system extensibility, bidirectional data integration, and meeting extensibility, as well as system wide compliance and control. Developers can use published APIs to integrate web communication capabilities with the application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, content management systems, and other corporate systems. In addition, the Adobe Connect Collaboration Builder SDK provides unique support for custom meeting applications and components, enabling developers to incorporate external data and functionality directly within the Adobe Connect experience.
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