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Faster Training. Higher Impact. Lower Cost.
Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional gives you everything you need to rapidly create, manage, deploy, and track highly engaging online training everyone can access instantly. Connect™ Professional makes it easy for anyone in your organization to create narrated multimedia courses using Microsoft PowerPoint, while providing rich tracking and reporting capabilities at the click of a button.
Connect™ Professional lets you deliver both self-paced courses and virtual classes within a common curriculum, so you can address a wide range of training needs, efficiently and affordably.
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Rapidly Deliver Engaging Self-Paced Courses
Develop Content Quickly
Empower nontechnical subject matter experts to create courses using nothing more complicated than Microsoft PowerPoint. Connect Pro makes it easy to add voice-over narration and multimedia content to presentations, right from within PowerPoint.
Measure Comprehension
Integrate surveys and quizzes directly in course material with a range of question types, including short answer, matching, and Likert rating scale. Use question branching and provide audio/visual feedback.
Ensure participation by eliminating technical barriers. Connect™ Professional automatically publishes your courses using Adobe Flash Player, already installed on 98% of browsers worldwide, so learners can instantly access Connect™ Professional training without cumbersome downloads.
Incorporate Existing Content
Easily integrate content created inAdobe authoring tools, such as Captivate, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Authorware, or existing AICC-compliant content.
Evaluate Content Effectiveness
Enable authors to gauge the effectiveness of their courses through customizable reports. Slide and question-level feedback indicates where revisions are needed.
Easily Update Content
Manage course content using the fully searchableConnect™ Professional content library, which makes it easy to find, retrieve, reuse, and update existing course material.
Easily Conduct Virtual Classes
Keep Teams Informed
Use online briefings to keep sales teams and business partners current on pricing and promotions, update employees on new compliance standards, or educate new customers through “getting started” seminars.
Create Virtual Classrooms
Conduct inexpensive collaborative, live training sessions with instructors and learners in different locations, complete with multimedia presentations, software simulations, application sharing and participant polling. Classroom sessions can be recorded and shared, allowing learners the opportunity to review content even after the live event is over.
Increase Instructor Efficiency
Make meeting management easier and reduce preparation time for recurring classes with customizable, persistent Connect Pro meeting rooms, which are automatically saved and available for the next session, complete with all uploaded content. Templates let other instructors instantly apply the existing layout and content to their virtual classes
Reduce Preparation Time
Repurpose your existing self-paced content in live virtual classes. Play videos or Connect Pro presentations created by other experts during a live session to expand course content without requiring additional resources.
Efficiently Manage Online Training Programs
Establish Blended Learning Curriculums
Develop curriculums that drive results by combining live and self-paced training. Create relationships within your curriculum that allow learners to test out of and bypass content they have mastered or use prerequisites to enforce your high-level instructional design strategy.
Easily Manage Enrollment and Notification
Quickly and easily manage course or curriculum setup using robust enrollment management capabilities. Send automated e-mail notifications and reminders based on learner progress.
Monitor Results Using Dashboard Reports
Easily track user completion and course results using a convenient reporting dashboard or at a more detailed learner-by-learner and question-by-question level.
Greater Reach. Better Leads. Lower Cost.
Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional lets you generate more high-quality leads at lower cost through high-impact live seminars and engaging on-demand presentations your audience can access instantly, without downloading plug-ins.
Connect™ Professional gives you everything you need to easily manage, deliver and track successful web seminars, including automated attendee registration and notification. Simplify events management even further with help from expert Connect Pro Event Producers.
With Connect™ Professional, your web seminars and presentations will be more convenient and persuasive for your prospects, while reducing your travel and event costs.
Generate More High-Quality Leads at Lower Cost
Improve Direct Marketing Response
Increase the success of your email and online ad campaigns by driving prospects to engaging, narrated Connect Pro presentations instead of simply linking to static landing pages. Get feedback instantly through embedded surveys. Respondents simply click on an embedded URL to instantly view a multimedia presentation, fully branded with your corporate logo and colors.
Increase Conversion with Online Seminars
Host lively and informative web seminars to engage prospects and respond to questions in real time. Take advantage of Connect Pro multipoint video, your choice of Internet (VoIP) or telephone audio conferencing, and unparalleled support for rich multimedia content to deliver web seminars that are the next best thing to being there.
Save Time with Automatic Registration
Automate attendee registration, notifications, reminders, and post-event thank you emails. Customize registration pages and the appearance of your online seminar rooms to reflect your corporate branding.
Reduce Event Preparation Time
Easily configure Connect Pro flexible meeting room layouts to simplify web seminar management for the presenters. Automatically save seminar layouts and all content for reuse to minimize preparation time for recurring sessions.
Measure Effectiveness
Track the success of Connect Pro presentations and seminars using simple dashboard-style reports and easily update content as needed to increase effectiveness. Poll seminar participants to gauge interest and export contact information into a CRM tool for immediate Sales follow-up.
Ensure Audience Participation Without Plug-in Downloads
Eliminate Technical Barriers with Connect Pro Instant Access
The best online seminar is useless if your audience can’t participate. Reach your audience instantly and eliminate barriers to attendance with Connect™ Professional. Connect Pro is delivered using the Adobe Flash Player, which is already installed on more than 98% of browsers worldwide, so your audience can joinConnect™ Professional seminars and access Connect™ Professional presentations instantly, without downloading special plug-ins.
Make Your Presentations Stand Out
Play videos of corporate executives duringConnect™ Professional seminars to communicate high-level messages and use customer testimonial videos to enhance credibility. Connect Pro lets you share high-impact multimedia content, including streaming audio, video, and software simulations to make your seminars and on-demand presentations both compelling and persuasive.
Record Seminars for Anytime Viewing
Record seminars, including synchronized audio from either Internet (VoIP) or telephone audio conferencing, and make available to those unable to attend. Built-in streaming server delivers content optimized for the viewer’s bandwidth.
Save Time with Expert Assistance
Reduce the time needed to plan, coordinate and moderate your online event by engaging the services of the Macromedia Connect Pro Event Services Team.
In-Meeting Events Services
In-Meeting Services include pre-event consultation, event practice session, and in-seminar event moderation, and more.
End-to-End Events Services
End-to-End Events Services also include customized registration pages, email management, and more.
On-Premise Control. Enterprise Scalability. Broad Extensibility.
Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional is a rich web communication system that gives IT professionals full control of enterprise-class web conferencing, online training, and collaborative communications for your entire organization. Connect™ Professional is available on both a hosted subscription basis and as licensed software that can be deployed on-premise.
Connect™ Professional is based on an open extensible architecture that supports cost-effective integration with existing infrastructure and future technology investments and Connect™ Professional is deployed using Adobe Flash Player, already installed on 98% of web browsers, so users across the extended enterprise already have everything they need to instantly access Connect™ Professional meetings, presentations and training.
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Unsurpassed Usability
Anytime Communication
Connect™ Professional integrates real-time communications, such as web meetings and seminars, with on-demand communications, such as self-running online presentations and self-paced training courses, so customers can deliver the mix of real-time and on-demand communications best suited to their particular audiences.
Ease of Use for Nontechnical Users
Connect™ Professional makes it easy for nontechnical users to create multimedia presentations, manage e-learning curriculums, and conduct live web meetings. Nontechnical users can create high-impact Connect™ Professional content using familiar office productivity tools, such as PowerPoint and any web browser. Connect™ Professional provides a searchable content library, so users across the organization can easily find and update presentations and meeting assets created by colleagues. Users can easily configure live meeting room layouts to suit their presentation style, and meeting rooms, including all content, are automatically saved and always available, dramatically reducing preparation time for recurring meetings.
Instant Access
Connect™ Professional is unmatched at letting customers reach their audience anywhere, anytime. Macromedia Flash Player ubiquity ensures that viewers can access Connect™ Professional meetings, training courses, and presentations instantly.
Engaging Content for Effective Communication
Connect™ Professional is based on the Adobe Flash player, the leading technology for delivering interactive content on the web, and provides unique support for video, voice, data, animations and simulations.
Customization and Extensibility
Directory Services Integration
Connect™ Professional provides Directory Services integration, using Active Directory or other LDAP systems, enabling organizations to leverage existing user systems for synchronization with Connect Pro users.
System Extensibility
Connect™ Professional provides application interfaces to integrate web communication capabilities with the application network, including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, content management systems and other corporate systems.
Connect™ Professional acts as a “good citizen” within an organization’s network—enabling customers to leverage data contained within existing systems and export Connect Pro data to those systems.
Meeting Customization
Connect™ Professional allows organizations to extend the out-of-the-box web conferencing experience through development of custom meeting applications and components. Through a published API, organizations are able to incorporate external data and functionality directly within the Connect Pro Meeting experience using industry-standard technologies.
Branding
Connect™ Professional provides an intuitive web-based interface that enables the entire Connect Pro experience to be customized to reflect the organization’s brand. Color schemes and logos can be easily applied to the login screens, web application, live meeting rooms, presentations, and training modules.
Enterprise Performance, Scalability, and Control
Superior Performance
Connect™ Professional delivers efficient stream management, including meeting-level and end-user control over bandwidth, allowing IT organizations to deploy rich, real-time voice, video, and data communication leveraging existing network infrastructures.
Broad Scalability and Reliability
Connect™ Professional offers single-server or clustered environments, providing reliable redundant deployment for organizations small and large supporting thousands of concurrent users. Connect Pro has been architected to scale to support tens of thousands of registered users in the system, and provides true “round-robin” load balancing, enabling customers to scale to support growth in users by adding additional servers.
Network Efficiency
Because Connect Pro can be hosted on-premise, much of the Connect Pro network load occurs on internal systems, so ASP bandwidth traffic and costs are kept to a minimum. Edge servers allow Connect Pro to reduce bandwidth and improve delivery for groups in remote locations.
Single System Administration
Connect™ Professional enables unified administration of web conferencing, training, and online presentations from a single administrative console. This unified solution reduces end user training needs and help desk demand.
Activity Monitoring and Reporting
Connect™ Professional reports include dashboard views and drill-down activity reports for all Connect Pro applications, including meetings, events, recorded meeting views, and training course and curriculum status and results. Reports on system usage and quotas provide administrators with visibility into application usage.
Access Control
Connect™ Professional provides system-level security and a multi-tiered, flexible deployment that allows organizations to implement Connect Pro according to internal best practices. Permissions are managed through flexible Access Control Lists (ACLs) that enable Connect Pro administrators to easily control access at the individual, group, and asset level.
Authentication
Connect™ Professional supports single sign-on, including support for NTLM, providing a seamless end-user experience across the enterprise. In addition to NT Domain authentication, organizations have the ability to extend the Connect Pro authentication infrastructure to support custom authentication schemes through an authentication filter framework.
Security Via SSL
All communications between the Connect Pro server and clients can be protected using 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. This ensures the secure delivery of data, voice, and video between the Connect Pro server and end users.
Shorter Sales Cycles. Lower Selling Costs. Greater Efficiency.
Close more deals more quickly with high-impact online meetings. Connect™ Professional lets you shorten your sales cycle with frequent online meetings and product demos, enabling you to accelerate the sales process while reducing travel time and expense.
With Connect™ Professional, you can also deliver multimedia presentations and proposals, complete with voice-over, using nothing more complicated than Microsoft PowerPoint. These customized, narrated Connect Pro presentations can be viewed online at your audience’s convenience, so you can reach key decision-makers anytime, eliminating delays due to schedule conflicts.
Connect Pro’s unique combination of live and on-demand communication capabilities let you and your team sell more effectively and efficiently while reducing cost of sales.
White Paper
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Shorten the Sales Cycle
Qualify Prospects More QuicklyMake the first customer meeting an online meeting to qualify prospects before investing the time and travel expense of an in-person meeting. You’ll be able to meet with new prospects instantly, without cumbersome plug-in downloads, because Connect Pro is delivered using Macromedia Flash Player, already installed on 98% of browsers worldwide
Speed the Process Through Frequent Meetings
Reduce sales time through frequent live online presentations and product demos that complement your in-person meetings. Increase meeting interactivity and impact with multipoint video and your choice of Internet (VoIP) or telephony-based audio conferencing.
Bring in Experts to Increase Credibility
Bring subject matter experts located elsewhere, such as product managers or sales engineers, into online meetings to provide technical details. Include senior executives, either live or via video, to present your company’s vision and product roadmap. Share customer testimonial videos during your online meetings or embed them in Connect Pro presentations.
Personalize Proposals
Deliver customized information and contract proposals in narrated presentations that help champion your value proposition consistently to all decision-makers within your prospect’s organization.
Lower Selling Costs
Reduce the Cost of Customer EngagementReduce costs by decreasing in-person meetings without sacrificing the effectiveness of your customer communications.
Hold Sales Kick-off Meetings Online
Eliminate travel time by holding team kick-off meetings online.
Train More Frequently Without Interrupting Selling
Deliver short self-paced presentations that sales reps can review at their convenience, without having to take time away from selling. Conduct quick online meetings to answer questions.
Greater Efficiency
Be Prepared
Connect™ Professional lets you set up and automatically save any number of meeting rooms, complete with content, so you can be prepared to meet online at a moment’s notice. With Connect Pro’s persistent meeting rooms, you’ll never find yourself asking your prospect to wait while you search for content on your desktop -- all the content you’ve uploaded to Connect Pro is always available and ready to present.
Replicate Successful Sales Practices
Leverage the skills of experienced sales professionals by enabling the entire team to use the same approach and online meeting content. Connect Pro lets you create meeting room templates, preloaded with content, that each sales rep can copy and use instantly, eliminating preparation time.
Save Time by Sharing Assets
Share presentations, videos, and software simulations across your team through the searchable Connect Pro content library. Easily edit and republish existing presentations, increasing effectiveness by tailoring them for specific prospects.
Improve Performance
All Connect™ Professional meetings can be recorded for later review to enable coaching on sales technique and product knowledge.