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Experience the five faces of rapid eLearning with a single feature-packed application that combines authoring, multimedia, collaboration, and tracking functionalities.  Contact GetConnect today for Captivate 5!  It is a great addition to creating Adobe Connect presentations.

• Rapidly create interactive eLearning content without programming thanks to an optimized user interface with a Property inspector and personalized workspaces.
• Rapidly enrich your courses using rich animation effects, video synchronized with selected slides, and a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, and images.
• Rapidly collaborate with team members.
• Rapidly deliver content to your learners virtually anywhere, and evaluate their progress with built-in tracking and reporting.
• Rapidly update training materials using Object Styles and Master Slides.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             If a customer has upgrade protection and is wondering about how to get their upgrade: Contact GetConnect for more information.

Adobe Connect was chosen for it web communication solution that provides the ability for virtual classes, on-demand presentations, and live and interactive collaboration on-line.

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Remember the old days, when you would attend a meeting and be handed a paper copy of the presentation?  Now you can directly record the entire virtual meeting, along with the presentation and the comments/discussions.  Effectively this enables attendees to take the information back and share with other employees, who would not have otherwise been able to attend.  Thereby, aiding in increased training opportunities and saved expenses.

At Get Connect, we have a strong commitment to the environment and we actively implement measures to increase efficiency, conserve energy and water, improve air quality, and reduce waste.  The Adobe Connect products allow you to be apart of this movement.  We partner with Adobe to further this goal.  From Adobe’s office buildings to their product packaging, they also continue to reduce their environmental impact.

ConnectSolutions Podium™ is a Webcasting solution based on the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash® Player, already installed on over 98% of internet-connected PCs worldwide and the platform of choice for over 80% of videos streamed on the internet meaning viewers do not need to download any software to attend events.

You may have seen ConnectSolutions Podium™ used for events such as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech addressing internet freedom or President Obama’s Town Hall meting in Shanghai.

GetConnect was chosen for helping a Fortune 500 company replace the antiquated, inflexible, and costly satellite network system they were using globally to provide training and broadcast executive messages. Setting their sights on improving training while reducing costs, the company ultimately selected an enterprise-wide deployment of Adobe Connect™ Professional with ConnectSolutions Managed Services as a replacement. Adobe Connect allows for integration with existing systems, and provides a new range of interactive capabilities to deliver a dynamic and engaging learning environment to students. GetConnect was responsible for coordination between the solution vendors—six in all—ensuring seamless representation to the Fortune 500 company and providing consistent representation for Adobe during the lifecycle of the deal.

Then, GetConnect’s very own Ian Justin will be hosting webinars on the new version in early 2010 after Adobe has upgraded all the server clusters across their network. 

• account_name.acrobat.com already upgraded; note: this is the cluster with Hosted trials, excluding EMEA trials
• account_name.na4.acrobat.com December 5, 2009
• account_name.na3.acrobat.com December 11, 2009
• account_name.na5.acrobat.com January 15, 2010
• account_name.na6.acrobat.com January 23, 2010
• account_name.emea.acrobat.com February 12, 2010
• account_name.connectpro.acrobat.com February 20, 2010

Do you have Adobe Connect Pro installed on-premise on your own server?  Find out when you can upgrade to version 7.5 by clicking on the link below.

License Upgrade Entitlement Guidelines for Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7.5

We are thrilled to announce a significant update to Acrobat Connect Pro.

Some of the new capabilities include the ability to integrate with any audio conferencing provider, allowing organizations to leverage existing investments. Telephone audio can be recorded along with a Web conference and streamed to VoIP-only meeting participants and advanced integrated audio teleconferencing capabilities include call controls, participant management and synchronized recording. In addition to Acrobat Connect Pro’s existing integrations with Premiere Global, MeetingOne, Cisco, and Avaya, Adobe is releasing a new integration with InterCall, the world’s largest conferencing and collaboration services provider, to offer customers the ability to deploy Acrobat Connect Pro with InterCall audio conferencing.

Increased webinar capacity will enable users to engage up to 80,000 participants in high-impact sessions that can incorporate rich media demonstrations, live and recorded video and interactivity. This new capacity will support use cases ranging from large marketing events and product launches, to global town hall meetings and effective eLearning programs.

Further enhancements to security and compliance functionality includes more secure desktop sharing that offers increased control and enables regulation compliance and new administrative tools allow customers to define which applications can be screen-shared; users can collaborate with ease without the risk of an inadvertent breach.

With this release, we are offering a new implementation model. In addition to current hosted and on-premise deployment options, Acrobat Connect Pro will be available as a managed service, offering customers the ability to outsource IT support while realizing the benefits of security and control.

Other key areas of additional functionality include: native support of PDF that offers advanced document controls and improved workflow through increased integration with Adobe Acrobat; functionality that enables users to schedule and manage Acrobat Connect Pro meetings directly from Lotus Notes; easy account migration for installed customers who wish to change deployment configurations; and certification that offers on-premise customers the ability to run Acrobat Connect Pro on VMware infrastructure. Additionally, work is currently underway on the Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile application, which will enable meeting participation from mobile devices. The first devices that Adobe is working to enable are the Apple iPhone and iPod touch.

Check out the new release!