Adobe Systems Inc. By Scott Phillips

About Adobe: Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced A – DOE – BEE) is an American computer software company which has been historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products that are sold worldwide. They were founded in 1982 at Mountain View, California by ‘John E. Warnock’ and ‘Charles M. Geschke’ who are the current Co-Chairmen of the Board. Primarily made software for Apple products until they made a partnership with Microsoft. In December 2005 Adobe acquired it’s former competitor ‘Macromedia’ which allowed them to inherit newer software products and platforms such as ‘Coldfusion’, ‘Dreamweaver’, ‘Flash’ and ‘Flex’ to its product portfolio. As of the end of last year (December 2009) Adobe had a Revenue of $2.95 Billion, Net Income (Profits) of $387 Million with ~8660 active employees working for them.

Leadership & Specialties: Executive Board/ Corporate Leadership:  Charles M. Geschke Co-Chairman of the Board  John E. Warnock Co-Chairman of the Board  Shantanu Narayen President & Chief Executive Officer  Karen Cottle Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary  Mark Garrett Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer  Donna Morris Senior Vice President, Human Resources  Kevin Lynch Senior Vice President: Experience & Technology Group, Chief Technology Officer Product Specialties:  Desktop software (Photoshop etc)  Server software (ColdFusion etc)  Formats (Portable Document Format, Flash Video etc)  Web-hosted services (Kuler etc)  Web design programs (Dreamweaver etc)  Video editing and visual effects (Premier Pro etc)  eLearning software (Captivate etc)

Adobe Products: Adobe Photoshop CS/Photoshop Elements  Graphics editing program  Commonly used in photos and image digital manipulation  Also used to create artwork  Purchasable Adobe Fireworks  Formerly Macromedia Fireworks  Bitmap and Vector Graphics editor  Mainly aimed towards web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces.  Purchasable Adobe Dreamweaver  Formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver  Web Development application  Allows users to preview websites in locally installed web browsers.  Purchasable

Adobe Products cont… Adobe Illustrator  Vector Graphics Editor  Provides results in typesetting and logo graphic areas of design.  More commonly used by digital artists for drawing and designing.  Purchasable Adobe Flash  Formerly Macromedia Flash  Multimedia platform for animation, video and interactivity to Web Pages.  Frequently used for advertisements and games.  Purchasable Adobe Acrobat Reader  Used View, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).  Widely used to present information with a fixed layout.  Freeware

Even more Products…  Acrobat family  Acrobat Capture  Acrobat Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze)  Presenter  Acrobat Distiller  Reader  Audition  Bridge Captivate  Central Output Server  ColdFusion  Content Server  Digital Editions  Digital Negative  Director  DNG Converter  Document Server  Document Policy Server  Engagement Platform  Flash family Flash Professional  Flash Cast  Flash Catalyst  Flash Lite  Digital Home  Flash Media Server  Flash Media Live Encoder  Flash Player  FlashTime  Flash family  Flash Professional  Flash Cast  Flash Catalyst  Flash Lite  Digital Home  Flash Media Server  Flash Media Live Encoder  Flash Player  FlashTime  Flex  Font Folio  InCopy Integrated Runtime  Kuler  LiveCycle family  Assembler  Barcoded Forms  Designer  Document Security  Forms  Form Manager  PDF Generator  Policy Server  Reader Extensions  Security Server  Photoshop family  Photoshop Elements  Photoshop CS  Photoshop Express  Photoshop Lightroom And many more I ran out of room for…

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