Adobe Systems Wiki - Computer Software Company
Adobe Systems Wiki - Computer Software Company
Description of Adobe Systems :
Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.
Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards digital marketing software. It is best known for its Photoshop image editing software; Acrobat Reader; the Portable Document Format (PDF); and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor, Adobe Creative Cloud.
Overview :
Founded : 1982
CEO : Shantanu Narayen (2007–)
Headquarters : San Jose, California, United States
Founders : Charles Geschke, John Warnock
Number of Employees : 17000+
Status : Public, Independent Company
Subsidiaries : Mixamo, Fotolia, Magento Inc., TubeMogul, more.
Industry Sector : Computer Software, Digital Graphics, Digital Marketing
Trivia :
Adobe has focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. Its main products include Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Acrobat and many others.
Adobe and NVIDIA have co-operated for over 10 years on empowering GPU quickening for a wide arrangement of Adobe's creative and computerised encounter items. This incorporates Sensei-powered features, for example, auto lip sync in Adobe Character Animator CC and face aware editing in Photoshop CC, and also cloud-based AI/ML items and features, for example, picture investigation for Adobe Stock and Lightroom CC and auto-labeling in Adobe Experience Supervisor.
On May 22, 2018, Adobe stated that they are buying e-commerce services provider Magento Commerce from private equity firm Permira for $1.68 billion. This deal will help bolster its Experience Cloud business, which provides services including analytics, advertising, and marketing. The deal is expected to close during Adobe's fiscal third quarter in 2018.