Adobe Fast Facts

Only Adobe gives everyone — from emerging artists to global brands — everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.

Download the Fast Facts PDF

Founded
December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock

Corporate headquarters
San Jose, California, USA

Incorporated
October 1983 in California;
reincorporated in Delaware May 1997

Stock symbol
ADBE (NASDAQ)

Initial public offering
August 20, 1986, at split-adjusted share price of US$.17

Revenue
Fiscal 2017 Revenues: US$7.302 billion (FY ended 1 Dec. 2017)

Employees
More than 18,000 worldwide

Our solutions

Adobe Document Cloud

Adobe Document Cloud helps organisations drive business faster and deliver superior customer experiences, on any device, by making paper-based processes 100% digital. At the heart of Document Cloud is Acrobat DC, the world’s best PDF solution; Adobe Sign, the leading e-signature solution that allows anyone to sign and send documents from any device; and powerful companion mobile apps. Document Cloud offers integrations with industry leaders like Salesforce, Microsoft, Workday, Dropbox and Box, so people can work the way they’re accustomed to working.

200 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in 2017.
Over 8 billion electronic and digital signature transactions were processed through Adobe Document Cloud in the past year.
The Adobe Scan application has been downloaded 10.5+M times since the release in June 2017.
Documents created, signed, shared and stored in Adobe Document Cloud drive a 90% cost savings and 91% reduction in environmental impact compared to paper-based processes.

Read more about Adobe Document Cloud ›

Adobe Creative Cloud

Creative Cloud delivers the world’s leading creative desktop tools, mobile apps and services such as Adobe Stock images. It connects them seamlessly together with their assets through CC Libraries, enabling users to work effortlessly across desktop and mobile devices for connected creative workflows. Featuring apps such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, Creative Cloud helps people produce their best work - and the value of membership increases all the time through exclusive product and service offerings and feature updates.

Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Photoshop.
Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps have been downloaded over 282 million times.
Adobe Stock offers 120 million assets including images, templates, 3D assets, over 7 million stock videos and over 600,000 Premium collection images.
Behance, Adobe’s online creative community, has over 10 million members. Creatives worldwide use Behance to showcase work and find inspiration.

Read more about Adobe Creative Cloud ›

Adobe Experience Cloud

Adobe Experience Cloud gives companies everything they need to deliver a well-designed, personal and consistent experience to their customers. Adobe Experience Cloud is comprised of Adobe Marketing Cloud, integrated solutions that help brands connect with customers on a personal level; Adobe Analytics Cloud, Adobe’s customer intelligence engine that helps brands move from insights to action; and Adobe Advertising Cloud, the industry’s first end-to-end platform that manages advertising for TV and all digital formats.

Adobe Experience Cloud data transactions grew to 97 trillion in Q2.
More than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies use Adobe Experience Cloud today, including 10 out of the 10 largest corporations and financial services companies in the US and 9 out of the 10 largest media companies in the world.
60% of Adobe Analytics transactions come from mobile devices.*
Industry analysts have named Adobe the leader in nearly 20 categories, such as Web Content Management, Digital Marketing Analytics, Digital Commerce, Marketing Cloud Platforms and more.

*Over the past 12 months ending Q2 FY2018

Leaders

Shantanu Narayen
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

John Murphy
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Dana Rao
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Bryan Lamkin
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media

Scott Belsky
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Creative Cloud

Ann Lewnes
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Donna Morris
Executive Vice President, Customer and Employee Experience

Abhay Parasnis
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Brad Rencher
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Marketing

Matt Thompson
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations

Gloria Chen
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Growth

Charles Geschke
Co-founder

John Warnock
Co-founder

Learn more about Adobe leaders ›

Major acquisitions

Magento, 2018

TubeMogul, 2016

Livefyre, 2016

Fotolia, 2015

Neolane, 2013

Behance, 2012

Efficient Frontier, 2012

Day Software, 2010

Omniture, Inc., 2009

Macromedia, Inc., 2005

Aldus, 1994

Corporate Responsibility

We believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. Through our efforts, we inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact in the following areas:

Education — We support greater workforce diversity and inclusion by investing in the next generation of creatives and coders.

Sustainability — We foster a culture of conservation in our business, our people, our communities and our customers.

Community — We empower our people and partners to better our world.

Learn about Corporate Responsibility at Adobe ›