Imagine what adding intelligence to the documents you use every day — tax forms, product specifications, customer orders — could do to simplify and streamline your business. What if documents contained the logic of your business, safeguarded the security and privacy of your information, and improved communications within and beyond your enterprise?

Enter the Adobe® Intelligent Document Platform, connecting documents to the people who need them and the processes that drive them. With the combined power of PDF and XML, the platform’s flexible architecture helps you securely extend the power and reach of information contained in core business applications — even beyond corporate borders.

The result? Documents are more useful and more secure. Processes are integrated and streamlined. And complexity is reduced, dramatically changing the way you do business.

Learn more about the three key technologies that compose the Adobe Intelligent Document Platform:

• Intelligent Documents: Add business logic to digital documents while maintaining the high fidelity your business requires with the powerful combination of PDF and XML.

  By combining XML and Adobe® PDF, Adobe Intelligent Documents help enterprises:

  Extend the reach of core business applications — inside and outside the firewall: Important data from back-end systems easily travels beyond the enterprise to customers, partners, and suppliers.

  Preserve the fidelity of original documents: Adobe Intelligent Documents are more reliable and easier to use because they retain the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source file — regardless of the application and platform used to create them.

  Increase document control and security: Password-protect Adobe Intelligent Documents to prevent unauthorized viewing and altering, while enabling intuitive commenting and editing tools for authorized reviewers.

  Archive documents of record: Ideally suited for archiving purposes, Adobe Intelligent Documents can lock down content to create easily searchable, auditable documents of record — especially important for government agencies and highly regulated industries.

• Universal client: Use ubiquitous Adobe Reader® software to interact with Intelligent Documents.

  With more than 500 million copies of Adobe® Reader® software installed around the world, you can be confident that if you send an Adobe PDF document, your audience will get what you sent.

  Adobe Reader, the business world's universal client, allows anyone, anywhere in the world, using virtually any device — desktops, laptops, mobile devices — to view and interact with Adobe Intelligent Documents. With Adobe LiveCycle™ Reader Extensions software, your organization can provide its customers, partners, and constituents, who need only have Adobe Reader and a standard web browser, with the ability to:

  • Participate in business processes and workflows, even offline
  • Review documents with advanced drawing and markup tools
  • Save forms and data locally
  • Add comments
  • Apply digital signatures
  • Certify critical documents

  Adobe Reader is available on most platforms and in many languages and is the de facto standard for reliable, more secure information exchange.

• Adobe Document Services: Create, manage, and automate critical business processes with Adobe Document Services.