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November 1, 2010 

GetConnect announced today it will support the next major version of Adobe’s enterprise web conferencing solution, Adobe® Connect™ 8.

Key features of Adobe Connect 8 include a new, more intuitive user interface, improved collaboration capabilities, expanded audio/video integration, improved access and extensibility, and increased security and enterprise support. With these new features, Adobe Connect 8 makes web meetings, online training, and webinars more efficient, effective, and engaging than ever.

”GetConnect’s deep knowledge of Adobe Connect for remote collaboration and eLearning is a strong asset to our customers,” said Michael Londgren, director of product marketing, Adobe Connect. “We’re excited for users to experience the many new and enhanced capabilities of Adobe Connect 8, and are confident they will benefit from the added value of GetConnect’s technical expertise.”

Adobe Connect is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning and webinars used by leading enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions. Based on Adobe Flash® technology, it enables organizations to provide rich interactions, while ensuring easy meeting entry. 

Adobe Connect significantly improves collaboration in the enterprise.  It provides the capabilities to easily create and deliver self-paced online courses, conduct highly interactive virtual classes and efficiently manage training programs.  Adobe Connect also enables organizations to increase attendance, boost attendance rates and generate more interest through rich and engaging, highly interactive and impactful webinars.

About GetConnect
 

GetConnect is an Adobe Authorized Gold Solution Partner.  Adobe Connect is our background and the foundation of everything we do. Our understanding of Adobe Connect is unique, our product knowledge, technical depth, best practices know-how and understanding of Adobe operations makes dealing with GetConnect a great experience for all of our clients in all business sectors.  To learn more about Adobe Connect 8 please contact us at 888-200-1831 or reach us at getinfo@getconnect.com.

For more information on Adobe Connect 8, visit the Adobe web site.

Podium 2 has compelling new features in the following areas:

• Announcements
• Scatchpad
• Video Responses
• Podium Event Guides

Additional new features include:

• Moderated Q&A
• Public Chat
• Native Facebook Webcasting Application

Podium 2 breaks out of the pre-set template of traditional webcasting and adds a new creative look and feel for viewers.  It presents a fresh and engaging business communication experience.

ConnectSolutions has also rolled out a new pricing model that enables it to be widely used across many departments.

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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.

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Solution to Provide Deployed Troops Secure Web Conferencing and Collaboration

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Aug. 24, 2009 —Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the U.S. Marine Corps has selected Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Pro as its standard Web conferencing solution. As a tactical battlefield collaboration tool for deployed troops, Acrobat Connect Pro can enable Marines to communicate more effortlessly and securely across locations worldwide.

The enterprise license contract, awarded through Carahsoft Technology Corp., is valued at $9.5 million. It will enable the Marines to immediately include Acrobat Connect Pro as part of version 1.5 of its Tactical Collaboration Work Suite, a portable data center providing robust, highly available, highly scalable collaboration and hosting capabilities to deployed forces.

“Some of the world’s most secure organizations in financial services, life sciences, and government — including the U.S. Department of Defense — have turned to Acrobat Connect Pro as a real-time collaboration solution. It not only meets the government’s highest security standards, but also enables increased efficiency and communication across networks,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Adobe’s Business Productivity Business Unit. “From planning to execution to debrief, Connect Pro can help the Marine Corps streamline information exchange and keep troops safe in mission-critical deployments.”

The Marine Corps cited several factors for adopting Acrobat Connect Pro as its collaboration solution. In addition to meeting stringent standards for security, availability and quality, the solution is Joint Interoperability and Test Command Certified, so troops and military leaders can connect quickly across any Department of Defense (DoD) network. Also, because Acrobat Connect Pro simply requires that users have Adobe Flash® Player, which is already installed on DoD computers and 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops, it can be deployed in the field for reliable collaboration in extremely low-bandwidth environments and intermittent connectivity.

“We are honored to continue supporting the DoD in its procurement and adoption of Adobe’s enterprise collaboration solutions,” said Craig P. Abod, president of Carahsoft. “Adobe and Carahsoft also provide Web conferencing capabilities to DoD users worldwide through Defense Connect Online, and we recently were awarded a DoD Enterprise Software Initiative blanket purchase agreement for Adobe server products through which the Marine Corps placed its order.”

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