Adobe

Company Description

Adobe Inc. is a multinational computer software company originally focused on multimedia and creativity software products before expanding to digital marketing software. It is especially famous for its Adobe Flash web software ecosystem, Photoshop image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format - PDF -, as well as Adobe Creative Suite and its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

Detailed Description

Adobe Inc. operates as a diversified software company worldwide. It operates through three segments: Digital Media, Digital Experience, and Publishing and Advertising. The Digital Media segment offers products, services, and solutions that enable individuals, teams, and enterprises to create, publish, and promote content; and Document Cloud, a unified cloud-based document services platform. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, a subscription service that allows members to access its creative products. This segment serves content creators, workers, marketers, educators, enthusiasts, communicators, and consumers. The Digital Experience segment provides an integrated platform and set of applications and services that enable brands and businesses to create, manage, execute, measure, monetize, and optimize customer experiences from analytics to commerce. This segment serves marketers, advertisers, agencies, publishers, merchandisers, merchants, web analysts, data scientists, developers, and executives across the C-suite. The Publishing and Advertising segment offers products and services, such as e-learning solutions, technical document publishing, web conferencing, document and forms platform, web application development, and high-end printing, as well as Advertising Cloud offerings. The company offers its products and services directly to enterprise customers through its sales force and local field offices, as well as to end users through app stores and through its website at adobe.com. It also distributes products and services through a network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, software vendors and developers, retailers, and original equipment manufacturers. The company was formerly known as Adobe Systems Incorporated and changed its name to Adobe Inc. in October 2018. Adobe Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Product & Services

List of Adobe products

Key People

Founder(s): John Warnock Charles Geschke

Shantanu Narayen (Chairman & CEO)

Financials

Revenue: US$15.785 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 3, 2021)

Operating income: US$5.802 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 3, 2021)

Net income: US$4.822 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 3, 2021)

Total assets: US$27.241 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 3, 2021)

Total equity: US$14.797 Billion (Fiscal Year Ended December 3, 2021)