Aktive Reply signs a Partnership agreement with Adobe Systems

Aktive Reply, a company of the Reply Group (STAR [REY.MI]), leader in the design and implementation of solutions based on new digital media and communication channels, announces that it has signed a partnership agreement with Adobe Systems.

With this agreement, Aktive Reply, a specialist in the development and deployment of Information Lifecycle Management projects, becomes Enterprise Solutions Partner of Adobe consequently expanding its offer with innovative solutions developed with Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite, Adobe Flex and Adobe® AIR™.

This agreement allows the companies to deliver a complete enterprise document management system facilitating knowledge management processes and SOA-based integration with existing platforms and systems.

"Information Lifecycle Management solutions are one of the milestones of the path towards Enterprise 2.0" - commented Marco Torchio, Managing Director of Aktive Reply. "The partnership with Adobe allows us to support our customers in simplifying data capture, optimising business processes and interacting with customers, employees, partners and suppliers. Moreover, in our competence center we are able to demonstrate tangible advantages, pre-view and test new features and develop customized solutions".

"The competence in the Web 2.0 landscape, the availability of a competence center and Aktive Reply’s ability to contribute to business process innovation constitute the foundations of our partnership" - declared Stefano Longo, Enterprise Solutions Partners Manager of Adobe Italia. "We believe that this partnership will bring significant benefits to companies wishing to simplify their data entry processes, document management and information security, achieving major competitive advantages".

Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite is an integrated software family for process automation that helps companies and the public administration to effectively interact with customers, citizens and partners inside and outside the boundaries of the organisation. LiveCycle ES integrates the functions of Adobe Flex and PDF technologies, leveraging the wide diffusion of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader; it includes scalable components to define, manage and optimise business-critical processes. Specific components for the quick development of content-rich applications and new Adobe® Solution Accelerators modules help clients to speed up the development of enterprise applications.

Adobe® AIR™ enables developers to create RIA applications on desktop using their own skills and already-known Web technologies – such as HTML, Ajax, PDF, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. Adobe AIR-based applications provide the advantages of browser-based RIAs, offering, at the same time, the benefits typical of desktop applications.