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Adobe isn't a company that's typically thought of as an "enterprise software company," even though it sells its software to large enterprises and offers "enterprisey" products like Acrobat and LiveCycle. That could be changing.

Atlassian recently said it wants to be for technical teams what Adobe is to designers, but it's clear that Adobe wants to be to technical teams what it is to designers. Adobe announced several new products at its annual Max conference, including LiveCycle Mobile, the new BlackBerry SDK, HTML5 tools and its app distribution system InMarket. What's emerging is a full "Adobe Stack" for the enterprise.

Google announced today that Google Apps Scripts, a "JavaScript cloud scripting language" for automating tasks in Google products, can now be embedded on any Google Sites page. Google Apps Script has been around for a while, but the ability to create custom pages with the scripts is new.

CNS Response, a laboratory information services company, uses Saleforce.com's Force.com platform in a unique way: to compare patient QEEG data (brain mapping and neurometric analysis) and return the results to physicians quickly.

Showing the utility of Salesforce.com beyond CRM, the company runs its process almost entirely through Force.com. According to Mark Desrosiers, SVP of Commercial Operations at CNS Response, the company as able to reduce its turnaround time by about 75%.