Jun
16
Acrobat.com Moves Out of Beta and Offers Paid Subscriptions
Adobe recently announced some major updates to its popular Acrobat.com service. According to their press release, Adobe has moved Acrobat.com out of beta testing and is now offering two paid subscription services. Since its launch about a year ago, over 5 million people have signed up to use Acrobat.com for sharing documents and online team collaboration.
If you’ve never been to Acrobat.com, it is an online service designed to help people work together on the web. It features online document storage and creation, web meeting and screen sharing tools, document revision and collaboration, and more. Basically Acrobat.com is designed to help business teams get work done in less time, while working together in real time from anywhere in the world.
This move by Adobe into the web-based services arena is just the latest example of how powerful software is increasingly moving from the desktop to web. Subscription services are also becoming more and more prevalent, due to their typically low cost of initial ownership and ability to thwart piracy. Acrobat.com will compete with the upcoming web features in Microsoft Office, as well as offerings from companies like Google and IBM.
While Acrobat.com will still offer a basic, free version of their services, the two subscription levels are aimed at business users that want to take full advantage of its powerful features. The Premium Basic subscription is $14.99 a month or $149 a year, and includes ConnectNow Web meeting capability for up to five users as well as online conversion of 10 documents to PDF per month. The Premium Plus subscription is $39 per month or $390 per year and includes ConnectNow Web meeting capacity for up to twenty users and unlimited online PDF creation.
Acrobat.com also features an Ideas section where users can suggest and test new features. It is a pretty cool online development community that encourages user feedback on the most recent ideas. Upcoming new features include Acrobat.com Tables (a spreadsheet application with group interaction), deeper integration with Adobe and Microsoft products, and social media style updates to track your team’s progress.
For more information, or to set up a free trial, check out Acrobat.com.
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