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Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) is in the Technology Industry
- Revenue
- Nov 30 2007
- $3.1B
- Profit
- Nov 30 2007
- $723.8M
- Market Cap
- May 13 2008
- $21.5B
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Hearst and Adobe take part in USD4m funding for FORA.tv
FORA.tv, a video site focusing on politics and economics, has raised USD4m in a Series A funding round from investors including return backers Adobe Ventures and William Randolph Hearst III. The site collates and organises video content from intellectuals, think-tanks, universities and other bodies, sorting the content into topical...
Adobe Debuts Free, Online Version of Photoshop
Adobe introduced a free, online version of its popular Photoshop software Thursday. It's an interesting experiment to take one of its flagship programs and apply it to a business model that is becoming more popular online: let users use a limited version of it for free all they want, or...
Adobe AIR Takes Productivity Offline
At its Engage event, held yesterday in San Francisco, Adobe announced the release of its Adobe Integrated Runtime AIR software. The software, which has been in beta since last June and is now available for free download, allows applications and the content they produce to migrate from the...
Planning a Publication Strategy—Print or Electronic?
Many companies are abandoning traditional print for electronic publications. The decision is not driven by cost alone; electronic publications are quicker and easier to produce, distribute, and update. They can also be easily customized to particular audiences or produced cost-effectively for small niche markets. However, there remains a human need...
All Together Now!
In hotels, conference centers and exhibition halls all over the world, people just like us conduct summits and symposia to discuss what we will be doing in the next five years. Free buffets are consumed, PowerPoint presentations endured and conclusions drawn. Often these conclusions are a bit overstated, more rarely...
Adobe Moves Deeper into the Collaboration Fray
IDG News Service reports that Adobe is including hosted collaboration tools in its latest Web and desktop application development platforms. The company unveiled the new services last Tuesday at its AdobeMAX 2007 conference in Chicago. The new functionality will allow developers to weave tools like voice-over-IP and messaging into rich...
Three Free Alternatives to Adobe Reader
Three Free Alternatives to Adobe ReaderMy favourite PDF application.I use ScanSoft PDF Professional 4 on a daily basis. I primarily bought it to convert PDF's to Word / PPT / Excel. The one major drawback, is that it's slooooooooow when loading PDF's. Otherwise it's strongly recommended and I'm particularly fond...
Three Free Alternatives to Adobe Reader
Adobe seems to be following the Microsoft model of late, having turned Adobe Reader -- the industry standard for viewing PDF documents -- into one seriously bloated, overwrought application. After a recent hard drive reformat/reinstall, I didn't even bother installing it. Of course, because I work with PDFs on a daily...
There's a Kinko in the Printing Process
From the headlines: Adobe includes a button in its latest software that would make it easy for users to print PDF files at FedEx Kinkos, then removes it following pressure from the printing industry.The Adobe-FedEx Kinkos deal was a dream partnership... for FedEx Kinkos. Adobe did the right thing by...
Daily Dispatch: Ericsson, Wal-Mart, Prudential, Adobe
Ericsson, the world's largest manufacturer of wireless network equipment, will buy German billing-software firm LHS. Ericsson already earns 23 percent of its revenue from providing services to telecom companies, and this acquisition is intended to strengthen its service offerings. Wal-Mart will offer prepaid...
Delivering An Integrated Supply Chain
The world economy is shaped by the globalisation of trade. However, poor visibility of the financial supply chain costs Fortune 500 corporations a massive $81 billion each year in unnecessary working capital and inefficient processing functions. In such a climate of uncertainty, one thing is certain, member governments must strengthen...
Italian Government Agency Uses Adobe Solutions for Digital Case Management System, Dramatically Decreasing Costs and Increasing Employee Productivity
Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro INAIL, The Italian Workers' Compensation Authority, is responsible for protecting and insuring workers against injuries caused by work-related accidents and occupational diseases. Like other government agencies, INAIL decided to take swift action to streamline both case processing and the agency-customer relationship, choosing...
A Broader Look at BPM
The business environment is filled with documents. Whether in electronic form or on paper, documents are vital to the work. Surprisingly, business process management BPM discussions rarely touch on the role of documents in everyday processes - overlooking the potential benefits of improved document creation, security, and processing. In many...
Managing Regulatory Compliance and Enterprise Risk at the Document Level
For enterprise, protecting electronic documents is of paramount importance for the maintaining their customers' privacy and the security of essential information. The vast majority of enterprise's sensitive information's resides, not in the structured databases, but in electronic documents. If remain unprotected these documents can turn into security breaches that can...
Expediting Processes For Effective Case Management
Every day across the country, a district attorney, police dispatcher, social worker, or civil engineer is called on to make a decision that could mean the difference been life and death. The situation might call for assessing hurricane damage to a bridge or protecting the chain of custody of evidence...
Building Efficient Electronic Processes Without Abandoning the Familiarity of Paper
Government organizations are struggling to increase and improve constituent services despite a decline in revenue. Nowhere is this challenge more pressing than at tax and revenue authorities, since they collect monies that fund other government agencies. Tax and revenue authorities must operate more efficiently than ever. This paper discusses solutions...
Adobe Web Output Pak: Generating Personalized Documents to Meet Customer Expectations
Enterprises are discovering that documents can do much more than just communicate and inform. The key to producing documents that drive business is a document-generation solution that takes content from multiple sources, dynamically generates documents, and then delivers documents over any device. This paper describes the Adobe Web Output Pak...
Adobe Systems Incorporated: Corporate Governance Guidelines
The following Corporate Governance Guidelines have been adopted by the Board of Directors to assist the Board in the exercise of its responsibilities. These Guidelines reflect the Board’s commitment to monitor the effectiveness of policy and decision making at both the Board and management level, with the objective of enhancing...
Cob and Adobe Construction
The word "cob" (or "bauge" in French) comes from an English root meaning a lump or rounded mass. Cob buildings utilize prepared earth shaped into lumps to be applied by hand. Placed atop a sturdy foundation, cob dries to become a sound, stone-like, load-bearing assembly. It has been used worldwide...
Increasing Lead Generation Through Live and On-demand Web Events
This white paper by John Persinos of Larstan Business Reports highlights the advantages of using Web seminars to generate pre-qualified sales leads. Persinos explains how your sales team can leverage the Web to reach the right prospects at the right time—at a significantly lower cost than conventional means such as...
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- Incorporated: 1983
- CEO: Mr. Shantanu Narayan
- Employees: 6,959
Adobe Systems provides a line of creative, business and mobile software and services for consumers, creative professionals, designers, knowledge workers, original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") partners, developers and enterprises for creating, managing, delivering and engaging with compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. Co. distributes its products through a network of distributors and dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators, independent software vendors and OEMs, direct to end users, and through its own Web site.
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Adobe Systems Inc. Company Info
Board of Directors
Dr. John E. Warnock Ph.D.
Chairman
Ms. Colleen M. Pouliot
Dr. Robert Sedgewick Ph.D.
Mr. Bruce R. Chizen
Dr. Charles M. Geschke Ph.D.
Chairman
Mr. Edward W. Barnholt
Mr. Michael R. Cannon
Mr. James E. Daley
Mr. Shantanu Narayan
Mr. Delbert W. Yocam
Mr. Robert K. Burgess
Ms. Carol Mills
Contact Information
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA
408 536-6000
NAICS Code
Software Publishers: 511210
