Adobe has taken its Acrobat.com online collaboration service out of beta, and opened it up as a subscription service. The firm has also added beta spreadsheet functionality, and plans to make the service available on smartphones. Acrobat.com was launched in beta in June 2008 as an online space fo
r meetings, and to let users create PDFs, share files and collaborate on documents using the Buzzword word processor. From today, Adobe is offering Acrobat.com as a subscription service, starting with US customers initially. No date was given for UK availability, but Adobe expected it to roll out to other regions "fairly quickly". Erik Larsen, director of product management for Acrobat.com, explained that the target market for the service is business people working in teams. "Everyone knows that lots of time is wasted in inefficient meetings and finding out which is the correct version of a document. There's a $2bn [£1.2bn] opportunity to address this problem," he said. Still in beta on Acrobat.com Labs is the Presentations tool, which is now joined by a new spreadsheet tool called Tables. This has special features to support collaborative working, such as a private view that lets a user sort or filter the data without affecting any other users that might be working with it at the same time.
r meetings, and to let users create PDFs, share files and collaborate on documents using the Buzzword word processor. From today, Adobe is offering Acrobat.com as a subscription service, starting with US customers initially. No date was given for UK availability, but Adobe expected it to roll out to other regions "fairly quickly". Erik Larsen, director of product management for Acrobat.com, explained that the target market for the service is business people working in teams. "Everyone knows that lots of time is wasted in inefficient meetings and finding out which is the correct version of a document. There's a $2bn [£1.2bn] opportunity to address this problem," he said. Still in beta on Acrobat.com Labs is the Presentations tool, which is now joined by a new spreadsheet tool called Tables. This has special features to support collaborative working, such as a private view that lets a user sort or filter the data without affecting any other users that might be working with it at the same time.For further details visit at : www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2244083/adobe-opens-acrobat-com-paying
