Adobe Systems Incorporated announced significant enhancements to its Adobe LiveCycle server platform. Available now, new Adobe LiveCycle software tightly integrates document services to automate people-centric processes for improving customer communications, increasing internal efficiencies and helping meet compliance initiatives.

Adobe LiveCycle makes it easier for governments, financial service institutions and manufacturers to deploy solutions that effectively create, capture and integrate information across the extended enterprise. LiveCycle now delivers visual assembly of process automation applications without the need for programming. In addition, LiveCycle now includes Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) for visibility into business processes, better integration of document security and control capabilities, and the ability to integrate data from two-dimensional (2D) barcoded forms with 100 percent accuracy for paper-to-electronic automation.

Ameriprise Financial, an Adobe LiveCycle customer and one of the nation's leading asset management and insurance companies, uses the new LiveCycle software to provide its client advisors with desktop access to an easy to use system of business and services forms.

 "We selected the Adobe LiveCycle platform to streamline the process of opening and servicing new business accounts," says Steven Guida, vice president of service delivery operations for Ameriprise Financial, Inc, formerly American Express Financial Advisors. "We chose the Adobe LiveCycle server platform because of the breadth and depth of its functionality, and Adobe's clear strategic vision in the forms automation and workflow space."

The new LiveCycle visual assembly capabilities include a new workflow designer and more than 50 Quick Process Action Components (QPACs) for an intuitive way to build applications that automate document processes. QPACs enable easy drag and drop integration of steps in a process, such as routing tasks to a user, sending an e-mail, or integrating with backend systems.

Key technology from Celequest Corporation, a leader in operational performance technology, is the foundation for LiveCycle's new BAM solution that measures and manages workflow performance through customizable dashboards for monitoring business process. In addition, a significant update to the Adobe 2D barcoded forms solution unifies paper to electronic document processes more efficiently.