Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. Our creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone — from emerging artists to global brands — to bring digital creations to life and deliver them to the right person at the right moment for the best results.
 
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Founded
December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock
Corporate headquarters
San Jose, California, USA
Incorporated
October 1983 in California;
reincorporated in Delaware May 1997
Stock symbol
ADBE (NASDAQ)
Initial public offering
August 20, 1986, at split-adjusted share price of US$.17
Revenue
Fiscal 2015 revenue: US$4.795 billion (FY ended November 27, 2015)
Employees
More than 14,000 worldwide
Solutions | Leaders | Acquisitions | Corporate Responsibility | Core values | Recognition

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our solutions

 

Adobe Document Cloud

Adobe Document Cloud helps organizations drive business faster and deliver superior customer experiences, on any device, by making paper-based processes 100% digital. At the heart of Document Cloud is Acrobat DC, the world’s best PDF solution; Adobe Sign, the leading e-signature solution that allows anyone to sign and send documents from any device; and powerful companion mobile apps. Document Cloud offers integrations with industry leaders like Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, Dropbox and Box, so people can work the way they’re accustomed to working.
  • In 2015, over 50 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products alone.
  • Over 6 billion electronic and digital signature transactions are processed through Adobe Document Cloud every year.
  • Acrobat, together with Acrobat Reader, are used on over a billion mobile devices and desktops worldwide.
  • Documents created, signed, shared, and stored in Adobe Document Cloud drive a 90% cost savings and 91% reduction in environmental impact compared to paper-based processes.

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Adobe Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud delivers the world’s leading creative desktop tools, mobile apps, and services like Adobe Stock images. It connects them seamlessly together with Adobe CreativeSync technology and CC Libraries, enabling users to work effortlessly across desktop and mobile devices for connected creative workflows.

Featuring apps such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, Creative Cloud helps people produce their best work - and the value of membership increases all the time through exclusive product and service offerings and feature updates.

  • Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Photoshop.
  • Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps have been downloaded over 150 million times.
  • Adobe Stock offers 55 million assets, including 2 million stock videos and nearly 100,000 premium images.
  • Behance, Adobe’s online creative community, has over 6.6 million members. Creatives worldwide use Behance to showcase work and find inspiration.

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Adobe Marketing Cloud

Adobe Marketing Cloud empowers companies to use big data to effectively reach and engage customers with highly personalized marketing content across all digital touchpoints.
Eight tightly integrated solutions offer marketers a complete set of technologies for analytics, web and app experience management, testing and targeting, advertising, video, audience management, social engagement and campaign orchestration.
  • More than two-thirds of Fortune 50 companies use Adobe Marketing Cloud today, including 8 of the top 10 Internet retailers, all of the top 10 commercial banks, media companies and auto manufacturers.
  • 10 of the 10 largest agencies and 8 of the top 12 systems integrators built their digital marketing practices around Adobe Marketing Cloud.
  • In the last year, Adobe Marketing Cloud processed over 51 trillion transactions, including 1.5 trillion mobile transactions.
  • In 2015, Adobe predicted total online sales forThanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday within 97% accuracy.
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Leaders

Shantanu Narayen
President and Chief Executive Officer
 

Michael Dillon
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 

 

Mark Garrett
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 

Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media

 

Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

 

Donna Morris
Executive Vice President, Customer and Employee Experience

 

Abhay Parasnis
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer 

 

Brad Rencher
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Marketing 

 

Matt Thompson
Executive Vice President,
Worldwide Field Operations

Chairmen of the Board

Charles Geschke
Founder and Chairman of the Board
 
John Warnock
Founder and Chairman of the Board
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Major acquisitions

 

Fotolia, 2015
Neolane, 2013

Behance, 2012

Efficient Frontier, 2012

Day Software, 2010

Omniture, Inc., 2009

Macromedia, Inc., 2005

Aldus, 1994

Corporate Responsibility

We believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. Through our efforts, we inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact in the following areas:
Education — We ignite creativity in the next generation of digital media makers and coders so they can innovate, grow our economies and make a real social impact.
Sustainability — We foster a culture of sustainability, working to preserve natural resources throughout our business operations.
Community — We empower change agents in our communities by investing in our employees’ and partners’ best ideas for solving social problems where they live and work.
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Corporate Responsibility

 

 

 

 

 

Our core values

 

Genuine
Sincere, trustworthy and reliable
Exceptional
Committed to creating exceptional experiences that delight our employees and customers
Innovative
Highly creative and always striving to connect new ideas with business realities
Involved
Inclusive, open and actively engaged with our customers, partners, employees and the communities we serve

 

Industry recognition

 

#1 Computer Software company on “World's Most Admired Companies” list
FORTUNE Magazine, 2016
 
16 years on “100 Best Companies to Work For” list
FORTUNE Magazine
 

Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations

Corporate Knights, 2016

“Top 100 Best Global Brands” list

Interbrand, 2016
 
#3 Greenest Company out of 500 publicly traded companies in America, #5 in the world
Newsweek Green Rankings, 2015

"World's Most Innovative Companies" list Forbes, 2016

 

World’s first corporation to achieve four Platinum-level Certications for Energy and Environmental Design Excellence

U.S. Green Building Council
 
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