Adobe Intelligent Document Platform
The Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform bridges the digital and paper
worlds. By leveraging the global acceptance of PDF and XML, documents become
instantly smarter, with information travelling where it's needed, as it's
needed, more simply and securely than ever before.
The Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform provides a secure and flexible way to extend the power and reach of enterprise applications inside and outside the firewall. The platform uses Adobe Document Services to create Intelligent Documents and integrate them into business processes. It empowers enterprises to replace inefficient, manual, paper-based processes with streamlined, automated processes that include customers, partners, and employees.
The Adobe Intelligent Document Platform includes three components:
1. Intelligent Documents
An Intelligent Document can be nearly any kind of document — a tax form, a mortgage application, or a government report — that is electronic, familiar, and easy to use. Intelligent Documents retain the familiar look and feel of paper documents, while adding powerful business logic capabilities, such as data validations, calculations, and routing instructions. The XML transport and schema component enables enterprises to capture data in an open-standards format and move it to people and applications based on the rules of the business. Because they are based on Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF), Intelligent Documents also include security features and archiving capability.Read more on www.adobe.com»