7 Reasons IT Pros are Leaving Adobe® for Nitro

#LeaveAdobe

Between dealing with service outages, helpdesk tickets, and security concerns (don’t forget the CEO’s request for a new TV in his office!), there are higher-priority, higher-impact initiatives to worry about. Right?

Actually, we at Nitro beg to differ. We argue that replacing your current deployment of Adobe Acrobat with our PDF solution, Nitro Pro, can have a significant and positive impact on many areas of your business—from user productivity to your IT budget, and even your daily workload.

So why axe Adobe Acrobat altogether and make the switch to Nitro? Here are 7 clear reasons, plus some words of wisdom from IT Pros who have already done so.

Finding a scalable PDF solution for users is often the last thing on the mind of a busy IT Pro.

7 Reasons IT Pros are Leaving Adobe for Nitro

Reason 1: No Sweat Compliance

Reason 2:Deployment—

Your Way

Reason 3:User-friendly Means

IT-friendly

Reason 4:Everything Users Need,

Nothing They Don’t

Reason 5: We’ve Got Your Back

Reason 7:Smart Savings

Reason 6:One Solution, Many Uses

7 Reasons IT Pros Are Leaving Adobe for Nitro

#LeaveAdobe

In their guide to “Surviving an Adobe Software License Audit” (seriously—there’s a

full guide!), Gartner Research reports that Adobe has audited a higher proportion of its

customers than other vendors with similar revenue. According to the guide, Adobe has

also seemingly “enhanced” its audit process as recently as 2014.

Kind of scary, huh? And shouldn’t vendors be making life easier for their customers,

not threatening them with time-consuming, expensive, stressful audits? Here’s how we

approach compliance at Nitro:

Rolling out new software across a department, let alone an entire organization,

is no doubt a formidable task. But deployment with Nitro is simple, personal, and

incredibly lightweight—at under 400MB per unit, Nitro Pro takes up 80% less space

than the 2,200MB behemoth that is Acrobat Pro.

However you need to handle deployment in your unique environment, our knowledgeable

Sales Engineers are here to help. You’ll be supported from the evaluation stage through

implementation and beyond. Here’s how you can deploy Nitro Pro:

No surprise audits or penalty fees for exceeded agreements

Simple quarterly true-ups to make sure everyone that needs Nitro, has it

No lengthy contract requirements – even for enterprise-level licensing

On individual desktop computers

Within Thin environments (Terminal server)

Within virtualized environments (App-V, ThinApp®, XenApp)

Nitro Pro provided quick and easy tools for automated deployment through our AD infrastructure. Beautiful!”

IT Manager The Innovia Group (Healthcare Industry)

•

•

•

•

•

•

Reason 1: No Sweat Compliance

Reason 2: Deployment—Your Way

7 Reasons IT Pros Are Leaving Adobe for Nitro

#LeaveAdobe

Reason 3: User-friendly Means IT-friendly

In IT, your users are your customers—and like any other business, you want to enable

your customers with the tools for success (otherwise, you’ll hear about it!).

When users open Nitro Pro for the first time, they’re greeted with a familiar UI that

looks, feels, and acts like a Microsoft Office application. They can begin editing, converting,

and annotating their PDF documents immediately with virtually no learning curve.

What could that mean for you?

Why is Adobe Acrobat’s install footprint 80% larger than that of Nitro Pro? Two words:

“feature bloat.”

“Acrobat’s feature set is so huge that you could probably spend a week exploring its menus and still miss some options,” according to PC Mag’s review of Acrobat XI.

True, you may have some power users that need to work with 3D PDF documents—but

it’s likely that the majority of your workforce will find the text and image editing, OCR,

batch processing, and form creation capabilities offered by Nitro Pro 10 to be more

than sufficient.

Faster and more widespread user adoption

Fewer product-related questions and helpdesk tickets

More time to dedicate to other initiatives (like perfecting your microwaved

bacon recipe!)

•

•

•

Reason 4: Everything Users Need, Nothing They Don’t

I have been using Nitro for almost 2 months now, and it has been really great. We make a ton of PDF’s for sending out reports and presentations, and it allows us to create those items very fast. It was really easy to learn how to use it.”

KEVIN MITCHELL, IT Pro and Spiceworks User

We quickly found that users that needed some of the Acrobat Pro functions only used about 1/8th of the actual features from Acrobat, and thus saw an opportunity to swap them to Nitro Pro.“ CODY HERB Help Desk Tech and Spiceworks User

7 Reasons IT Pros Are Leaving Adobe for Nitro

#LeaveAdobe

As a busy IT Pro you’re likely supporting an office full of users, and crushing their

helpdesk tickets in a timely manner is a critical aspect of your job. Well guess what—

it’s a central part of our job, too!

With Customer Support representatives in nearly every corner of the globe, we’re

always on the clock. That’s how we can boast an average first response time of 1.8

hours for support requests. And if you prefer more of a self-serve approach, our

community forum is just the ticket. (Get it? Ticket? Heyyyooo!)

Yes, Nitro Pro provides a full suite of PDF tools for users. But did you know that the

integrations available in Pro 10 go beyond PDF to streamline the full document

lifecycle? With Nitro Pro 10, users can:

Reason 5: We’ve Got Your Back

Reason 6: One Solution, Many Uses

Very effective support team, great product.”

Software Asset Manager The Wood Group (Utilities Industry)

Nitro has removed the need for multiple related software products and hence has reduced total cost of ownership.” Head of ITAggreko UK Ltd.(Utilities Industry)

Create PDFs from scratch, from other file types, and from different individual

documents, and transform them any way they want with powerful editing tools.

Collaborate on the documents they create. A single click in the desktop

application can initiate a secure eSignature, sharing, or document approval

workflow.

Manage their documents by tracking activity (views, comments, etc.) in Nitro Cloud,

or access them remotely via the optional integrations with localized versions of

Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive.

•

•

•

7 Reasons IT Pros Are Leaving Adobe for Nitro

#LeaveAdobe

Reason 7: Smart Savings

So we’ve talked features and functionality, deployment, ease of use, and more.

Now we’ll finally address the elephant in the room: cost.

For the cost of a single Acrobat Pro license, you can equip two users (2.81, to be

precise) with copies of Nitro Pro 10. Need 11 or more licenses? That means you qualify

for our Volume Licensing Program, so you can expand your deployment to even more

users—or just keep more money in the bank.

Most important, however, is the time you’ll save by switching to Nitro—because

prepping for audits, answering helpdesk tickets, waiting for support, and training users

become all but obsolete.

Key Takeaway

If there’s one thing we hope you learn, it’s that you can make a significant impact on

your organization by making the switch from Acrobat to Nitro.

When it comes to PDF, you have a choice, so don’t let a legacy application stand in

the way of making great progress.

Nitro Pro 10 $159.99

Adobe Acrobat Pro XI$449.99

From a business perspective, this move was a complete no-brainer because Nitro is twice as fast at a fraction of the cost, with savings in excess of a hundred thousand euro.” ENDA QUAIN Head of Technology Integration and Assurance Allied Irish Bank (Finance Industry)

If you’re interested in

learning more about Nitro,

you can download a free

trial, set up a team trial,

or speak directly to

one of our helpful

sales representatives .

About Nitro

Nitro is the leader in document productivity. We accelerate the way businesses create, prepare and sign documents—anytime, anywhere.

More than 500,000 businesses run Nitro, including over 50% of the Fortune 500. Nitro is the PDF software partner of choice for Lenovo, and our award-winning products, including Nitro Pro and Nitro Cloud, are used by millions of people around the world every month.

More info: www.GoNitro.com