Acrobat Shared Review - Possible Upgrades?

Is it possible to put a contract in place to get upgrades to Acrobat Shared Review:
1. New data fields to sticky notes such as: issue title, issue description, applicable section/paragraph or requirement not being met, proposed solution.
2. Custom Status field - more than just the 4 currently available
3. a better export functionality to be able to export these to an external database application
thanks

Acrobat Pro in general is slow, but particularly so with shared review PDFs I open through Tracker. It's difficult to navigate through shared review PDFs, open comments, etc. Until about three weeks ago I had no problem opening or navigating through PDFs. I can't think of any reason this started.
Our desktop support team are the system administrators and I'll need to provide them with specific information about what to do to fix this issue.
I really appreciate your help. This problem is impacting my workflow, making it increasingly difficult to get my work done.

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