What does Adobe’s acquisition of Scene7 mean to a Flash designer/developer?
Adobe announced they were buying Scene7 the other day and it seemed a bit like a head scratcher to me. I wasn’t aware that Adobe was in the practice of buying consulting/media development firms that use the Adobe Suite to produce solutions. Scene7 looks to be a company that primarily develops Flash and Flex solutions. Is Adobe planning on adding the staff of Scene7 to the Adobe consulting business unit?
Anyway, I came across this product that Scene7 has: Image Portal. Looks like a web based Extensis Portfolio or Canto Cumulus competitor. Built in Flex. Could be nice to package into/integrate with Bridge for company wide asset management. I know my small workgroup could definitely use something like that. We’re currently tossing around those two pieces of software I mentioned as well as Final Cut server as options to manage/search for assets on our ever growing storage array at work. With video, tons of office documents, PSDs, FLAs, XML and everything else you amass over the course of modern projects this is definitely something that is becoming necessary.
Scene7 also has a content publishing platform that looks kind of cool, could Adobe be interested in server side content management, too? Interesting, indeed: On-Demand Platform.
Anyone out there that can shed any light on the benefits that Scene7 brings to a typical Adobe user is welcome. Also, if you are using an asset management system out there and you have views/reviews you can share, please do.
Posted on May 5, 2007
Eric Cancil May 5
I’d lean towards the fact that they’ll add them to consulting, it seems most logical. Theyre really looking to beef up consulting (i got contacted by them myself)
ps. You work at Bradley? I graduated from there a couple years ago.
ERic
Chad May 5
Yeah, consulting seems to make sense, it would be cool to get some products out of the deal though, too…
Anyway, I do teach a class per semester at Bradley… currently web design in the multimedia program. I work fulltime at The Iona Group as a developer.
How about you, checked out your blog… couldn’t tell where you were at. When did you graduate? What was your major?
Nono May 5
They first created Adobe consulting by buying Iteration Two, why not make it grow the same way?
Eric Cancil May 13
Hi sorry I didn’t check back til now…I graduated in late 2004. Are they teaching more flash at Bradley now? Any flex? I’m in new york city…just accepted a job with cynergy systems
Eric
Chad May 13
We teach Flash for all the authoring classes now (dropped Director in 2004), we also teach Flash Lite/Mobile Programming… no Flex, but that may change soon.
We have a pretty strong program now, good faculty, motivated students… pretty good, all in all!
Scene7 Employee Oct 4
It’s great to see so many people following Adobe. As a Scene7 employee, it is important for me to share more details about our company and why Adobe purchased our technology.
Scene7 is a software tool with three deployment options – licensed, full services from our IT team, or On Demand – software delivered through a web browser. Think of Salesforce.com (SaaS) and Photoshop on steroids. Scene7 does offer professional services for companies that do not have a creative agency or an internal IT team to produce rich media solutions online. This may be why folks see us first as a consulting agency. The platform of solutions allows users to eliminate the manual tasks associated with delivering imagery to the web. For an eCommerce store or for a product manufacturer, the more product detail provided on their website, such as zoom, 360 spin, color changing and product configuration/personalization enhancements, the more the shoppers online will convert to a sale. To be able to add zoom and color swatching with an automated approach streamlines workflows and cuts productions costs. Building confidence online has been difficult until companies offered their customers the chance to almost touch and feel without coming into the store to actually touch it.
I hope I’ve been able to explain a little more about this important new tool. CS4 will address more of Scene7′s technology….these are exciting times.
To learn more about Scene7 and the tighter integrations you will see in the future from Adobe, please contact us at 877-SCENE7 (877-723-6370)
Jared Nov 20
I’ve been working with Scene 7 since it really hit the market for doing some of the craziest image layover stuff you can find anywhere. Along with serving up image sets n video and eCatalogs.. they have IPS which is used to creatr vignettes that repeat a pattern over a predefined 3-d grid along with mixing lighting effects and all kindsa fun stuff.. then deliver it online fast and efficient.. I could go on for days about ways to use scene 7, but the important thing here is that now the design tools for doing all that craziness will now be able to carry the Adobe interface.. which will make the job for designers like me much easier!
Jared Tomlin
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