Integrated cloud storage service for Adobe Content Server (ACS).

Enable your users to synchronize content, bookmarks and highlights across multiple devices with hundreds of existing e-reading apps and devices. Contact Us directly for details about availability and licensing.

The Datalogics ACS Cloud Service enables Adobe Content Server operators to provide an enhanced user experience for their end user readers. Readers can store and manage their content in the cloud, download books to all their devices, and synchronize reading location, highlights and bookmarks across all devices.

The cloud storage service has several key features which enable content providers to support and deliver an optimal user experience to end user readers:

• eBook download onto multiple devices - Users can access their books on all of their devices (phones, tablets, computers).
• Synchronized reading position - Users can start reading on their phone, and then continue on their tablet at the last page read.
• Synchronized bookmarks and highlights - These can be created on any device, and will be synchronized in the cloud and available to all devices.
• Cloud backup - If devices are lost or become inoperable, content and settings can easily be redownloaded onto replacement devices.

Features

• Easy integration with ACS - The server component of the cloud service works as an ACS plugin which is easily installed and maintained.
• Support for Adobe ID and Vendor ID - Both types of user authentication are supported by the cloud storage service.
• Support for any Adobe DRM-compatible client - The client-side API's to access the Datalogics cloud storage service are cross-platform and freely available. Therefore any Adobe DRM-compatible client can be enhanced to work with the service.
• Customizable architecture - The cloud storage service can be tailored to meet specific needs of the education market, commercial bookstores, and library lending.
• Minimal maintenance - ACS customers will not need to worry about managing uptime, throughput, servers, or other maintenance tasks. This is all provided as part of the service, and managed by a cloud operations team at Datalogics.

Components

The Datalogics cloud storage service is comprised of three components:

• an ACS integration component that connects an Adobe Content Server installation to the cloud service;
• cloud-enabled clients that can connect to the cloud service; and
• the cloud service itself.

The ACS integration component is provided as an ACS plugin. Its primary purpose is to enable purchased and lent content to be stored within the cloud storage service for client retrieval. When a book is fulfilled, the ACS integration component stores the book and information about that book in the cloud service, and the client retrieves the book there.

Cloud-enabled clients are eReader devices and applications that utilize the cloud service client-side API's to access the cloud storage service. Clients can pull content and information down from the cloud service, as well as push content and information up to the cloud service, as necessary. Any eReader client can be enhanced to connect to the Datalogics cloud storage service. The API's are open access and freely available for use by anyone.

DL Reader, our brandable reference app for iOS, Android and Windows, will be updated to connect to the cloud service. DL Reader is available as a free download from the App Store (iOS), Google Play (Android), and the Datalogics website (Windows desktop). Branded readers built upon DL Reader will also be compatible with the cloud service.

The cloud service runs on scalable, highly available servers from industry-leading cloud computing provider Rackspace, and is managed by a dedicated Datalogics cloud operations team.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing for the Datalogics cloud storage service will be based on the number of transactions and volume of data stored and managed in the cloud. The Datalogics cloud storage service (the ACS integration component, cloud-enabled clients, and the cloud service) will be available in Q3 2013, and feedback from early adopters will be used as input to subsequent releases.

For more details about pricing and availability, please contact your Datalogics Account Representative or click on the Contact Us button below.