14 DAY TRIAL // While Adobe Systems is delivering the Acrobat Connect software product line for immediate download, The Adobe Connect hosted service will be offered as a free trial version by the end of 2007. Come January 2007, the Acrobat Connect service will come with a monthly price tag of $39 per month, or $395 per year for a single meeting room. Acrobat Connect Professional will be a tad more expensive with prices beginning from $15,000.
"Adobe has an unparalleled history of providing rich, engaging experiences for our customers and end users," said Tom Hale, senior vice president, Knowledge Worker Business Unit at Adobe. "Now with Acrobat Connect, we are advancing the world of web conferencing by allowing people to use personal meeting rooms as they would their offices. They can instantly come together to review the documents that are critical to their everyday work, ultimately elevating web conferencing to an essential daily tool for getting work done."
Adobe Acrobat Connect is built on top of the Macromedia Breeze Meeting, and is designed to enable instant, real-time, interactive, scalable, highly customizable and extensible web conferencing.
"We've seen a huge jump in the demand for online meetings within and across our business units-especially when managers realized the time and costs savings involved," said Nancy Williams, an instructional designer at DTE Energy, a diversified energy company with revenues of more than $9 billion. "The versatility and ease of using Adobe Acrobat Connect software has been instrumental in driving new demand. Employees can easily participate in planned trainings or instantly initiate ad hoc meetings without ever leaving their offices. In a company as large and diverse as DTE, that flexibility is essential."