The Future of Adobe LiveCycle

November 11, 2011 by Kevin Schmidt
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With all the Adobe news lately, I wanted to make sure everyone knew the future of Adobe LiveCycle. Here is the statement from Arun Anantharaman, vice president and general manager, LiveCycle and Adobe Connect.

“Since Adobe’s entry into the Enterprise market in 2002 with the acquisition of Ottawa-based Accelio, we have built a large portfolio of LiveCycle customers. We will continue to sell and support our LiveCycle products in the government and financial services markets, two areas where the LiveCycle value proposition remains especially strong. Outside of those markets, we are now planning to focus our Enterprise efforts on products targeting the digital marketer, including the Digital Marketing Suite and Web Experience Management solution. In addition, Adobe is fully committed to the success and satisfaction of our customers and we intend to build long term strategic relationships with them. We will continue to support all existing and future customers of our solutions.”

So, there you have it, feel free to ask any questions in the comments and I will do my best to get them answered for you.

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18 Comments on The Future of Adobe LiveCycle

  1. LordAlex Leon on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 4:31 pm

    2. What will happen to Adobe Collaboration Services (LCCS)?

  2. Ed on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 4:59 pm

    3. Rumor has it lifecycle is going only into maintenence mode. No more features will not be added. Same with other Flash Platform features

  3. Kevin Schmidt on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 5:55 pm

    4. @LordAlex – I’m not sure, I will try to find out.

    @Ed That is not correct

  4. Dirk on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 8:23 pm

    5. Thanks. So if a SMB customer who’s not doing business in the government or finacial services sector just needs good old LC Process Management or LC Rights Management – will he still be able to buy just those?

  5. Kevin Schmidt on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 8:43 pm

    6. @Dirk – I’m not sure, I imagine so, but I will try to find out a definitive answer for you.

  6. Sven Ramuschkat on Fri, 11th Nov 2011 10:05 pm

    7. Hi,
    in order to find new customers for LiveCycle, which really is a great Product, it is very important to come back to the old price model where all the modules where available … like buying only LC Output or LC Rightsmanagement .. which is not possible with the new pricelist

    As I always say … it is better to have 10 x 50K Deals that no 1 Million Deal.

  7. Andre Venter on Sat, 12th Nov 2011 10:09 am

    8. We have long been hoping that Adobe would offer a strong Enterprise application development proposition that rivals the .NET platform and Toolsets.

    What is the big picture vision?

    It sounds to me like that is not going to happen ever.

  8. Niall O'Donovan on Sat, 12th Nov 2011 4:27 pm

    9. Kevin,

    The way that Adobe has mis-managed the message for both LC/ADEP and Flex/Flash has made LiveCycle solutions a much harder proposition overnight. It seems that Adobe has swapped horses mid-race and expects everyone else to do the same. It’s not that the development tools have gone away, but client’s confidence is shaken and there is the potential that new features will not be developed.

    The developer community is smarting.

  9. NickW on Sat, 12th Nov 2011 7:01 pm

    10. Other than continuing to take Livecycle customer money for support ad infinitum, what is implied in Arun’s statement?

  10. Peter Elst » The Flash Platform saga… one week later on Tue, 15th Nov 2011 9:17 pm

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  11. Dale Morcombe on Wed, 16th Nov 2011 12:30 am

    12. flash abandoned for html5. flex dumped on the community. yeah the livecycle future sure looks oh so bright… not. we’ve had the layoffs.. now the statement above, sure sounds like a prop up of hot air. so if its not a digital enterprise app, your basically SOL? nice. we need to renew our TAM support, upgrade to 2.5 then to adep and buy a host of server licenses.. suddenly I lack the confidence to go through with it since its obvious that its being pushed aside by Adobe.

  12. Kevin Schmidt on Wed, 16th Nov 2011 3:26 am

    13. @Dale LiveCycle is alive and well in the FSI and Government space. A new version is coming next year and there are engineering resources for new development based on customer feedback. It’s not being pushed aside, but rather the focus is being put on key markets where LiveCycle has a strong and compelling fit.

  13. Gil Goodridge on Wed, 16th Nov 2011 8:25 pm

    14. If someone came to Adobe from outside of government and financial services and asked, “What product can you sell me that will do server-side conversions of word processing documents into PDF or PDF/A?” what would today’s answer be? What if a customer wanted to merge PDFs at the server or turn a PDF into a PDF/A? The old answer was “LiveCycle ES” for these types of things. Are you now saying that Adobe no longer has a solution for market segments outside of gov’t and financial and that such customers need to find third party solutions? Or, is there another product in your suite that will do these tasks?

  14. The ADEP Post | The Future of Adobe LiveCycle on Thu, 17th Nov 2011 7:09 am

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  15. Ivey los vein on Fri, 27th Jan 2012 4:36 pm

    16. Nice post I’ve bookmarked it on Digg under “The Future of Adobe LiveCycle : underprise.com”. So hopefully our friends can give you a visit. Keep up the good stuff.

  16. Mike Boldt on Fri, 27th Jan 2012 9:03 pm

    17. Kevin, did you ever get a definitive answer on LC Rights Management? Really curious … Thanks.

  17. Kevin Schmidt on Wed, 1st Feb 2012 4:13 pm

    18. @Mike LC Rights Management is sticking around as well and further development is taking place.

  18. Kevin Schmidt on Wed, 1st Feb 2012 4:14 pm

    19. @Gil You can still buy LiveCycle outside of FSI and Government, Adobe just isn’t focusing its efforts on those other markets.

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