MALVERN, Pa.--Aug. 9, 2006-- IKON Office Solutions, the world's largest independent channel for document management systems and services, today announced that it will add the Adobe LiveCycle family of enterprise software to its Premier Partner Program, further enhancing the company's integrated portfolio of document management solutions. Adobe LiveCycle creates intelligent documents with embedded business logic that automate people-centric processes for improving customer communications, increasing internal efficiencies and helping meet compliance initiatives. It combines robust process management with electronic forms, document security, and document generation in an integrated and cohesive set of products that work inside and outside the firewall, for users in online and offline environments. "IKON is committed to providing the most robust portfolio of solutions for integrating the entire document lifecycle," said Michael E. Kohlsdorf, Senior Vice President of IKON Enterprise Services and Information Technology. "Adobe LiveCycle will help IKON customers create, deploy and optimize solutions that effectively capture, process and integrate information across the extended enterprise." Adobe LiveCycle is designed to help businesses integrate their document-based business processes with enterprise systems. Its unique component-based architecture allows for the quick and flexible development of end-to-end workflows that unify people, systems, documents, business rules and Web services. Leveraging industry-standard technologies, the Adobe LiveCycle platform is highly scalable and integrates easily into most enterprise systems. Implemented and supported by IKON's team of professional services specialists, Adobe LiveCycle further enhances IKON's integrated suite of document management solutions and services. Through its Document Strategy Assessment offerings, IKON's team can help design and implement an enterprise-wide cost-containment strategy for improved workflow, efficiencies and productivity, and utilize Adobe LiveCycle in the resulting document management solution to create, manage and store intelligent documents. "Businesses are looking for better ways to automate, accelerate and secure the flow of business-critical information to and from customers, partners, constituents and employees," said David Mendels, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at Adobe. "The combination of Adobe LiveCycle with IKON's professional services team provides an unmatched breadth of solutions, integration expertise and service required to meet customers' specific needs."