Peter Dubbelman, consultant in information and communication technologies (ICT) at Movares B.V., recently talked to us about how the engineering consultancy firm is using Adobe Acrobat and dynamic PDF capabilities.

With Adobe Acrobat, the company is streamlining and accelerating collaboration across project teams with reliable, more secure documents in PDF. Millions of technical drawings and specification documents created by Movares teams in the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland must be shared, reviewed, and revised on an ongoing basis. By implementing Adobe Acrobat, Movares is able to maintain the visual fidelity of key technical drawings and specification documents. Adobe Acrobat allows large, dispersed Movares teams to share and comment on documents.

Adobe Acrobat also protects sensitive materials from unauthorized access or tampering using digital signatures, encryption, and password protection. Permissions settings limit who can print, copy, or change documents. Movares preserves documents electronically by adopting the reliable, proven PDF/A standard for document archiving. The company appreciates the ease of packaging and deploying Acrobat X throughout the firm.

To learn more about how Movares is using Adobe Acrobat, click here.

Dave Stromfeld, senior product manager, Acrobat Solutions, shares insights on Acrobat X’s seamless integration with SharePoint in this video.

Tune in to learn how using Acrobat X with SharePoint enables organizations to accelerate projects and collaborate more efficiently using the new check-in, check-out function of PDF files for reviewing and editing shared documents.

What is the difference between Acrobat X Suite and Creative Suite or Acrobat X Pro? Tune in to Lori’s Corner to hear more on “What’s Inside the Acrobat X Suite?” 

In this quick overview, Lori outlines the Acrobat X Suite – what are the products and how they can be useful for Acrobat users. Learn how to move your business communications from static to dynamic.

Check out the video here:

The Adobe Acrobat Suite combines some of the best communication tools in the business in an innovative and intuitive package. Now, you can improve the image of your business as well as ease up your internal processes, all for free. Rather, at the cost of a RT!

Beginning Wednesday, April 20th and running for a week, any Twitter user who ReTweets any of our ‘ReTweet this Today’ posts will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of the new Acrobat X Suite, valued at $1,199. It really is as simple as that. Acrobat X Suite makes it easy. You get Acrobat X Pro, Photoshop CS5, Captivate 7, Presenter 7, LiveCycle Designer CS2 and Adobe Media Encoder CS5 in a single suite that opens the door to a new way to communicate. One of the most diverse and useful pieces of business software on the market can be yours just by Retweeting our very own @Acrobat Twitter account!
Be sure to pay attention to the Acrobat account for your chances to RT, and follow us for more information and of course winner announcements!

The contest opens 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 20th, 2011, and closes 2 p.m., Wednesday, April 27th, 2011. The prize drawing will occur on or before 5 p.m., April 27th, 2011, with the winner announcement occurring that day as well. The drawings are open to residents in North America only.

Business communications entered a new era when we delivered Adobe Acrobat X Suite. By combining some of the most powerful communications tools available, we provided business professionals, from CEOs and small business owners to engineers and marketing and sales executives, with tools they can use to create rich interactive media, edit and improve digital images, and deliver polished PDF communications.

But what we did was simply meet a growing trend, yet raise the bar at the same time. It’s pretty clear that the better you represent your company and yourself, the greater the likelihood of winning the new client, landing the big contract or getting buy-in from management for your idea. In fact, more and more business professionals and knowledge workers in small to medium sized businesses recognize the power high-impact presentations and interactive content have on customers, prospects and colleagues. Just being able to incorporate digital media in presentations amplifies your ideas. Here are some plain truths from our recent research:

• 45% of knowledge workers share digital photos for work at least once a month

• 27% of knowledge workers share digital video files for at least once a month

• Among Adobe Acrobat customers 63% share digital photos for work at least once a month, while 26% share digital video for work during the same period. So your competition is doing it. How about you?

Acrobat X Suite makes it easy. You get Acrobat X Pro, Photoshop CS5, Captivate 7, Presenter 7, LiveCycle Designer CS2 and Adobe Media Encoder CS5 in a single suite that opens the door to a new way to communicate. With Acrobat X Suite you can:

• Edit and insert photos: easily create engaging business communications; deliver engineering design documents with embedded images and drawings.

• Create multimedia screen captures and demos: build product or web demos; author interactive presentations; deliver self-service, interactive training materials.

• Add audio to presentations: create self-running presentations with audio voice-over from PowerPoint slide decks.

• Edit and share video: create product collateral with interactive materials; insert customer testimonial videos.

• Create dynamic, interactive forms: build new employee forms, conference registrations, invoices, order forms, purchase orders, or timesheets.

• Package and share information in PDF Portfolios: organize multiple types of content into polished PDF Portfolios for customer/employee welcome kits, RFIs/RFPs, marketing & event kits, case documents, design reviews, project summaries, and more.

So what are you waiting for? There’s no better time than now to try Acrobat X Suite. Start moving your business communications from static to dynamic with this free trial here. Also, take look at a new AdobeTV show called “What’s Inside Acrobat X Suite,” a collection of how-to tutorials. And don’t miss Wednesday’s eSeminar: “Introducing the Acrobat X Suite,” learn how to move your business communications from static to dynamic.

Up your game with the Suite!

Chris French, Senior Product Manager, Acrobat Solutions

In February, I proudly released a 300-page aerospace industry article, “Report on the Key Websites & Marketplaces for the Aviation/Aerospace Market,” that includes industry information about market trends and emerging solutions, interactive documents, rich media content and technical design schematics to facilitate the trading and repair of aircraft parts.

At 260 pages produced over the course of almost a year, it was a daunting task, but in a macabre way, I wonder what it would’ve been like without using Acrobat to put this together.

You see, OP Management is currently a one-man shop (i.e. me). In the past I’d work on a proposal with my collaborators who had different applications and were looking at different versions of documents. To add another layer, not only were our applications disparate, but these folks were also located in other parts of the country and the world!

Needless to say, the workflow wasn’t ideal. I needed a complete document solution to support end-to-end, in-house publishing and gave me control over documents distributed to my partners.

Fortunately, I’ve seen firsthand the end-to-end possibilities of a report like this using Acrobat. My team and I were able to develop, publish and distribute this report—from start to finish—efficiently and securely. The content is so rich now thanks to capabilities we learned about in Acrobat’s PDF Portfolios to deliver interactive graphs and videos. In fact we plan to use Acrobat and its PDF Portfolios capabilities to deliver presentations at upcoming industry events to market our products, services, and of course, our report.

I’m now actively sharing these possibilities to our historically resistant clients. They have older ways of working and may feel threatened by change, but one of the advantages of using Acrobat is that it’s cross-platform, not to mention the other benefits like added security and working with rich media within the digital documents.

My hope is that our clients will see the ubiquity and rich content possibilities in Acrobat as I do. It’s something I hope will separate my company from everything else going on in the field.

John Pawlicki is Principal and CEO at OP Management. Check out the report John references, “Report on the Key Websites & Marketplaces for the Aviation/Aerospace Market,” here.