CS6 / Livecycle

I am looking at purchasing the CS6 Cloud suite and i need to know the answer to a question. i am creating brochures and am using ID and PS to do this then Acrobat XI to make the PDF interactive so my customers can add there company information to the PDF. i want them to be able to add their logo as well and can do this if i use Livecycle for the final step to allow them to open a local file (log) and insert it into the PDF.
Q: is this the most efficient way to achieve this or am i missing something? i dont really want to purchase LC as well as the CS6 if i am missing how to achieve the same result in just CS6.
Cheers Steve

Define exactly what you mean by "LiveCycle"  It is both a server product  (LiveCycle ES 4 server ) and a forms product (LIveCycle Designer ES4).  The cost difference is immense.

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