A. What is Adobe Connect * Adobe Connect is a collaboration tool that includes video conferencing, application sharing, live polling, chat, whiteboards, and power point presentations with small or large groups by only connecting to a website on your computer. * Using Adobe Connect, you and other meeting attendees can join a live, on-line meeting from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a browser, Flash Player plug-in, and an Internet connection. A meeting can have as few as two or as many as several hundred attendees.
Benefits of using Adobe Connect * Save real money by reducing expensive travel and training costs at the same time as improving productivity and the learning experience. * Increase student enrollment rates * Being able to record lectures for on demand playback. Example would be watching a past lecture to help study for test.
Companies that use Adobe Connect * Military, Colleges, Hospital even the president of the United states

Reach out to colleagues around the world and across platforms
Adobe® Connect™ software eliminates technical barriers between meeting participants. Not only is it designed to work on a variety of platforms, it also leverages the power of Adobe Flash® Player software. With Flash Player already installed on over 98% of Internet-connected PCs, users can instantly access online meetings, virtual classrooms, and presentations without cumbersome downloads and IT support. And since Adobe Connect is engineered to work on a variety of operating systems — including Microsoft® Windows®, Mac OS, Linux®, and Solaris™ — even the most diverse and distributed teams can collaborate with ease.
Engage users with rich multimedia
Create media-rich content quickly and easily with Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect provides full support for movies, animations, streaming video and audio, high-resolution graphics, Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter presentations, and Adobe Captivate® demonstrations. The ability to interwork with so many products means you can create effective, media-rich content that keeps attendees engaged.
Record, edit, and download meetings for anytime viewing
Record meetings and seminars with synchronized audio — from either Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) or telephone audio conferencing — and make them available on demand. Use simple mark-in and mark-out tools to edit out unwanted sections. Make recordings available for download on a website or for offline viewing and distribution.
Use breakout rooms to focus discussions
Within your meeting, you can create multiple breakout rooms, each with its own private VoIP or telephone conference call. Use a default template or create custom layouts for each meeting room, and provide specific content appropriate for each breakout room. Hosts can monitor all breakout sessions, move between rooms, and broadcast messages to all participants across room boundaries. When it's time to bring the groups back together, hosts can review breakout room content with the entire group in the main room.
Integrate with existing sytems
Adobe Connect works with the systems you already have in place, helping your organization enjoy increased efficiency and reduced costs. * Audio — Extend your audio capabilities to reach a wider audience with Universal Voice. Use any audio conferencing service with Adobe Connect. * E-mail and calendar — Easily schedule, start, and join Adobe Connect meetings right from your Microsoft Outlook or IBM® Lotus Notes calendar. * Instant messaging (IM) — View participant presence status or chat with users directly within Adobe Connect. * Virtual environments — Run Adobe Connect in virtual environments thanks to support for VMware. Use your hardware more efficiently and reduce your carbon footprint.
Maintain security and compliance
Control security and privacy
When you use Adobe Connect, you can collaborate with confidence. Protect sensitive data and manage communication flows with robust security features, such as disabling undesired functionality and controlling access to meeting rooms. Proven 128-bit SSL encryption protects your communications and data in real time, during meeting sessions, as well as during on-demand playback and when systems are upgraded. Define and control which applications can be shared.
Authenticate users with native LDAP support
When users log in to Adobe Connect, their credentials can be authenticated directly against your organization's LDAP server. The easy-to-use administration console enables you to configure LDAP server details, authentication methods, and advanced settings, such as timeouts and query page-size limits.
Comply with government regulations and internal policies
Safeguard, store, and track electronic communications using the compliance features of Adobe Connect. You can enable forced recordings of all meetings, save chat transcripts, and display notices and disclaimers to all meeting participants. These measures work together to help ensure compliance with internal policies, as well as with government regulations.
Customize and extend the user interface
Reinforce corporate branding
Customize the web conferencing experience. Adobe Connect and Adobe Presenter software provide an intuitive web-based interface that enables you to reflect your organization's brand. You can easily apply color schemes and logos to login screens, web applications, live meeting rooms, presentations, and training modules.
Customize individual meeting room layouts
Use customizable tabs to organize meeting room flow and content. Easily select and arrange content windows for each layout, making the flow of your meeting intuitive and engaging.
Save layouts as templates for future reuse
Save meeting room layouts and content as reusable templates for personal or systemwide use. Content saved in templates becomes instantly available in new meeting rooms created from those templates.
Integrate with corporate portals and applications
Adobe Connect provides APIs that enable you to customize it to meet the needs of your organization. Use Adobe Connect Server to integrate web communication capabilities with the application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, content management systems, and other corporate systems.
Enable bidirectional data integration
The Adobe Connect solution acts as a "good citizen" within an organization's network, enabling you to leverage data contained within existing systems and export Adobe Connect content to those systems. When implemented behind your firewall, Adobe Connect can transmit data files to other authorized systems, in keeping with your internal security and archiving policies.
Optimize scalability, performance, and usage
Reliably scale to accommodate thousands of users
Adobe Connect supports single-server or clustered environments, providing reliable, redundant deployment for organizations that must support thousands of concurrent users. The system has been architected to scale to support tens of thousands of registered users, and it provides true "round-robin" load balancing so customers can scale to support user growth by adding servers.
Optimize network efficiency and reduce bandwidth requirements
Because Adobe Connect can be hosted on-premise, much of the network load occurs on internal systems, keeping network traffic and associated costs to a minimum. Adobe Connect Edge Server enables the Adobe Connect solution to reduce bandwidth requirements and improve delivery for groups in remote locations.
Manage usage
Generate reports and chargeback details based on individual or business group usage.
Extend audio capabilities within your online meetings
Work with any audio provider
Universal Voice lets you integrate Adobe Connect with any audio provider or teleconferencing platform. Record any telephone-based audio along with your web conference and save telephony costs by streaming telephone-based audio to VoIP participants.
Use the Internet as a phone
Adobe Connect provides the highest quality Internet audio (Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP) and offers an easy audio setup wizard, echo and noise cancellation, and silence detection, which eliminates the need for a "push to talk" feature.
Expand your audio capabilities with advanced integration
Take advantage of advanced audio teleconferencing features though partner integrations with Avaya, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, InterCall, MeetingOne, and Premiere Global Services.
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