Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro is a suite of programs for video conferencing on the web. Made up of four components on the client side (Meeting, Presenter, Training, and Events) and the Connect Server server-side part, this software is now considered among the simplest and most useful ways of sharing documents and ideas. The program is designed to compte with services like WebEx and Microsoft Live Meeting, but with a touch of professionalism and the nice additional touch of sharing Adobe pdf files is a tool that finds for itself a unique and much appreciated space.
Acrobat Connect Pro provides users with great features and advanced technology to make it easy video conferencing and web collaboration among teams distributed in different parts of the planet. Connect Pro achieves excellent levels of efficiency and reliability, so much to get to the top of the range of today’s collaboration tools. In addition to videoconferencing, the software puts together a space for sharing ideas and projects, a space for recording of files and their controlled distribution, and a virtual secretary that deals with schedules, reminders and invitations to online meetings.
With a simple and very intuitive layout, which is also re-organizable and fully customizable to your liking, the program offers a system organized around autonomous windows called ‘pods’ that are independently controllable, resizable and fully manageable. Acrobat Connect Pro offers, in parallel to this attractive and modern interface, also a number of excellent features, many of which are listed below:
* Videoconferencing with integrated audio and video
The conference includes two different video and audio components separately manageable and customizable. Each participant can join the videoconference easily with a predefined number (for example this is a free number from the U.S.) that can be composed with a standard phone, or can join over a dedicated two-way Voip channel. The only limitations on the number of participants are determined by the computational power of the server hosting the conference and the incoming bandwidth on that line.
* Multiple Meeting rooms
The host can create in every moment open virtual or private meeting rooms at any time (even sfter the conference started) to discuss specific problems or divid the team into subgroups, and continue the work in parallel workflows. All rooms will be available also at the end of the conference along with all their content (files, chats, notes).
* Annotations in real time
Each participant will use a virtual board to write and add notes and comments on documents, photos and even video and the result will be shown in real time to the team members. This unique virtual blackboard will contain several superimposed layers of text and graphics that will be saved independently of each other in order to allow the reuse of the material for future meetings or presentations.
* Log and recordings of meetings
Each conference can be recorded with logs that take full account of participants, hours of entry / exit, recording the actions of each of them. Recordings can be viewed through a dedicated player in the program, but in the future is expected that Connect Pro will produce an open video for use at video sharing sites.
* Working environment completely open and independent of the client
Each participant will be part of a virtual meeting from a computer regardless of the operating system that he uses, from Linux to Mac to Windows, and every type of processor (from PowerPC to X86 etc.) he owns. The Adobe Connect Pro interface is common to all systems.
Acrobat Connect Pro is therefore a complete solution perfect for every professional need of distributed conferencing.
