Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) vs SharePoint Designer

• The scalability of what Flash can do makes it so useful. You can do something simple like make a ball bounce on screen over some letters before showing your logo, or something more complex such as developing an animated short to display.
• Using Flash videos on websites is very commonplace, so people are used to seeing it and have the necessary plugins installed already.
• The files are very small, and the compression is very smooth. This helps if you are trying to send content to mobile devices or simply keep your website footprint small to ensure fast loading times.

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• Allows ease and flexibility of creating custom workflows specific to the business needs. Emails can be configured to easily be sent based on specific conditions, and the inclusion of workflow variables allows increased functionality.
• It gives a quick interface to add, edit, and remove site pages as well as the ability to edit list item pages creating a custom look and feel for every business need and increasing the functionality of SharePoint lists.
• Allows a nicer user interface for the additions and management of the external content types linked to the specific sites.

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• Unfortunately, Flash is dying because of compatibility issues. Users are increasingly viewing websites on mobile devices, and Flash animations will not work in these cases.
• Very soon, almost all of the major browsers will be blocking Flash, which is obviously a problem!
• Flash provides decent 2D options, but it's pretty limited in 3D capabilities.

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• Navigation between sub-sites and beyond the entry point is not seamless. I find it difficult to get to the root of a directory structure if I have not started there.
• Would love to be able to do WYSIWYG in some form. I have only used it for a year but I have not found anything fancy to do.
• I would like to be able to work in a development site and easily move to the production site.

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• Absolutely a positive return on investment - our marketing always does better with animated features.
• It gives our entire firm a meaningful reputation as being open to new and advancing technology and not shying away from it as things advance.
• Allows us to pull content creators from our internal staff that are not particularly skilled in coding but can use the easy-to-use Adobe platform.

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• Positive impact: End users love the custom look of their sites after I have used Designer to spice it up a bit.
• Negative impact: Other end users now want *their* sites to be spiced up similarly. More work for my team is a good thing, but each time I work in Designer, I am afraid that I am adding another impediment to our eventual upgrade to 2013.

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