Adobe.com Biography & Web Analysis

Adobe Inc. is an American global computer software company. Incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Jose, California, it has historically specialized in programming for the creation and distribution of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, llustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures and print. The organization has expanded into digital marketing management programming. Adobe has millions of users around the world. Flagship products include; Photoshop image editing software, Adobe Illustrator vector-based illustration software, Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Portable Document Format (PDF), plus a host of tools primarily for audio-visual content creation, editing and publishing. 

The company started by leading in the desktop publishing revolution of the mid-80s, proceeded to lead in animation and multi-media through its acquisition of Macromedia, from which it obtained animation technology Adobe Flash, Developed inDesign and along the lines acquired a leadership position in publishing over Quark and PageMaker, developed video editing and compositing technology in Premier, pioneered low-code web development with Muse, and arose with a set-up of solutions for promoting marketing management. Adobe offered a packaged solution of it's products named Adobe Creative Suite, which advanced into a SaaS subscription offering Adobe Creative Cloud. 

Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who set up the company after leaving Xerox PARC to create and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. 

In May 2018, Adobe expressed they would purchase e-commerce services provider Magento Commerce from private value firm Permira for $1.68 billion. This deal will help reinforce its Experience Cloud business, which offers services including analytics, advertising, and marketing. The deal is required to close during Adobe's fiscal third quarter in 2018. In September 2018, Adobe declared its securing of marketing automation software company Marketo. In October 2018, Adobe officially changed its name from Adobe Systems Incorporated to Adobe Inc. 

Starting at 2019, Adobe has more than 21,000 employees worldwide, about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe additionally has major development operations in the United States in Newton, New York City, Minneapolis, Lehi, Seattle, Austin and San Francisco. It likewise has major development operations in Noida and Bangalore in India. In January 2019, Adobe reported its obtaining of 3D texturing company Allegorithmic. 

In 2020, the yearly Adobe Summit was dropped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event is said to occur online this year. The software giant has imposed a restriction on the political ads features on its digital advert sales platform as the United States presidential elections approaches. On November 9, 2020, Adobe declared it will spend US$1.5 billion to acquire Workfront, a supplier of marketing collaboration software.