Adobe® Acrobat® ConnectTM Pro, the recently launched conference and eLearning software is a dynamic product for complete hassle free web conferencing. This engaging and easy to use software is surely to draw attention from all types of businesses due to its maneuverability and flexibility.

Overall Rating: 3/5

If you wish to use this software easily and quickly, learn the tricks and tutorials from their forums and related websites. Though it is little expensive, but given the user friendly and useful attributes, it is worth buy for businesses and people who require frequent web conferencing. The conference part is the main strength of the software and thanks to its great interface and connectivity.

The Acrobat Connect would be ideal software for companies who have employees and offices at different locations and they need to train people via classrooms. The web conferencing would help them connect several classrooms at a time and impart the message. The flexibility of such online meetings, virtual classes, effective sharing of wide range of content including videos, Adobe Flash, and other files would make this an adorable product.

The Key features at a glance:

• Audio integration
• Video conferencing
• Screen sharing
• Notes, chat and whiteboarding
• Central content library
• Adobe flash player based
• Secured Connection

Pros:

• Clean, simple and flexible interface
• Create different layouts and arrange them in variety of pods
• Variety of pods - chat pods, survey pods, note pods, file and screening pods
• Single sign in system through LDAP integration
• Very easy for end users to schedule meetings and conferences
• The Premier Global Services enable wonderful conferencing integration
• On screen controls of audio settings; mute of participants and other aspects of phone conferencing
• Allow some one else to drive the session for you

Cons: 

• In house host would require third party to get it implemented and there the extra expense
• Little bit confusing to integrate the Acrobat Connect Professional with your existing Learning Management System (LMS)
• The total dependency on Flash requires client software and possibly content conversion.
• It is though said ‘easy to use software’, but you need to put some toil on it to learn the functioning properly.

This new software Acrobat Connect advanced features like VoIP, full PowerPoint Presentation support, and others come handier with its compatibility to get installed in almost all platforms.

Quick Stats of Acrobat Connect:

Integration: The virtual appliances of the software run well on top of server and operating system virtualization systems which include Microsoft Virtual Server, Xen, VMware Infrastructure or ESX Server, Solaris Containers, Linux Jails, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Virtual PC, or any other such other virtualization technology.

Acrobat Connect is fully supported for users of Mac OS X v.10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, on both PowerPC® and Intel based Macs.

Security: All the transactions and account management in this software use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.

Price: Flat fee: US$39/month, US$395/year. At $39/month for up to 15 users is the best competitive price of this software.

So it is a bit of Go decision for Adobe Connect as your web conferencing software to conduct your online meetings and eLearning sessions.