Acrobat.com Workspaces - 8 views
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Duane Fogarty on 05 Apr 10"Work better together on Acrobat.com" [1]. "Adobe has introduced Acrobat.com Workspaces, an extension to its online collaboration service that provides shared workspaces to enable teams to easily share project documents and other files when working on projects" [2]. Adobe is a major player in the field of producing solid software and it seems they too are joining the world of online collaboration by developing Acrobat.com Workspaces and more. Launched in 2009, Acrobat.com lets users "store and share documents, convert files to PDF, share their screen using Adobe ConnectNow, and create documents using online applications such as the Buzzword word processor and Acrobat.com Tables for spreadsheets"[2]. At the moment the paid prescription is available to North American customers only and some other regional Beta versions are available. Although this availability is a weakness, particularly at this stage for Australian clients, Adobe does offer a free alternative for everyone until the Workspaces are available widely. The alternative is a limited, but useful service; "Get an online workspace, five PDF conversions total, three person web conferencing, online office applications and forum-based support" [3]. One of the biggest strength's to the workspaces is the usability of the product and its fresh outlook. The product offers great potential for clients as regardless of what application you use to create a document; Acrobat.com Workspaces includes a PDF conversion which can make the final document industry standard.
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Duane Fogarty on 05 Apr 10Acrobat.com Workspaces are mobile and can be collaborative from anywhere, "whether it is reading a proposal one last time on the train, or sharing a presentation with a new team member or taking a picture of receipts and faxing them to accounting" [4]. Having mobility on a collaborative workspace these days is an important plus to the potential of Adobe's application. With Acrobat.com Workspaces users can work together in real time on various Office documents like Word, Spreadsheet and presentations. No downloads are necessary as it is all found online and the latest document is what users will be viewing and editing. In real time, users can respond and make changes together. A possible weakness to the software is the inability to lock someone out of a document, although Adobe suggests that 'no lock outs' are a positive [5], in some cases a document in a workspace may not need to be seen by all eyes. In this scenario it would be better to have multiple Workspaces, but whether that is a viable option for a business or not will need to be analysed.
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Duane Fogarty on 05 Apr 10References/Notes [1] Adobe - tagline, https://acrobat.com/#l [accessed April 5]. [2] Robinson, D., (2010). Adobe adds shared workspaces to Acrobat.com, http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2260392/adobe-adds-shared-workspaces, V3.co.uk. [3] Acrobat.com Workspaces, https://acrobat.com/#il=1&page=signup_only&su=1 [accessed April 5]. [4] Acrobat.com Mobile Workspaces, https://acrobat.com/features_mobile_access.html [accessed April 5]. [5] Adobe.com Workspace features, https://acrobat.com/features_online_office_applications.html [accessed April 5].
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Narelle Absolom on 09 Apr 10Placeholder interested in this for my work, so I'll comment after further research