Managing Multiple Acrobat Forms

Acrobat Professional has worked well for creating simple fill-in forms. Now I have an application that would benefit from a more sophisticated application of Acrobat, but I don't know what the structure of that application would be. As I understand it, the data would be collected in Acrobat (7.0) forms, and that entered data would be automatically entered into a database. When we need access to the information, we would search the database, and the information would be delivered in the fill-in form.
If someone could please give me an idea of what Acrobat features make this application possible, it would be helpful. It's something I have never reviewed.

Hi; At this time we do not have support for organizing in folders. There is a feature request on our Ideas page that has been popular, you could add your vote here too: http://forums.adobe.com/ideas/1587
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