corporate Fact sheet Adobe Fast Facts Adobe Systems Incorporated offers business, creative, and mobile software solutions that revolutionize how the world engages with ideas and information. Adobe customers include enterprises, knowledge workers, creatives and designers, OEM partners, and developers worldwide.
Founded Major Acquisitions One million designers and developers use Macromedia® Flash. December 1982 by Charles Geschke and Aldus, 1994 John Warnock Macromedia Dreamweaver® software Frame Technology, 1995 has more than 3 million active users. Incorporated GoLive, 1999 More than 90% of creative professionals October 1983 in California; Accelio, 2002 have Adobe® Photoshop® software on reincorporated in Delaware in May 1997 their desktops. Macromedia, Inc., 2005 Stock Symbol Core Technologies and Clients Revenue ADBE (NASDAQ) Portable Document Format (PDF)— Adobe Q3 2006 Revenues: US$602.2 Launched in 1993 million (quarter ended Sept. 1, 2006) Initial Public Offering Published specification used by govern- August 20, 1986 at a split-adjusted share Adobe Fiscal 2005 Revenues: US$1.996 ment organizations, corporations, price of $.17 billion (FYE Dec. 2, 2005) and people around the world for more secure, reliable electronic document Macromedia Fiscal 2005 Revenues: exchange. Source of Name US$436 million (FYE Mar. 31, 2005) Named after Adobe Creek which ran Adobe Reader—Launched in 1993 behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos, Employees Free, universal client software that enables California Approximately 5,879 worldwide users inside and outside the firewall to interact with electronic documents Corporate Headquarters Market Presence online or offline. San Jose, California, USA More than half of Adobe’s revenue is Adobe Flash Player— generated outside the United States. Launched in 1996 Leadership The world’s most ubiquitous client run- Adobe Flash Player and Reader Bruce Chizen, Chief Executive Officer ® ® ® time for playing rich experiences across software combined are installed on major operating systems, browsers, and Shantanu Narayen, President and Chief more than 700 million connected PCs mobile devices. Operating Officer and devices worldwide.2 Adobe PostScript®—Launched in 1984 Stephen Elop, President, Worldwide Adobe Reader software is distributed Device-independent page description Field Operations in 26 languages on 10 major platforms language, built into printers and profes- worldwide. Randy Furr, Executive Vice President sional presses, that powers the reliable and Chief Financial Officer The world’s top 10 PC manufacturers ship output of visually rich documents. their systems with PDF technology Karen Cottle, Senior Vice President, pre-installed. General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Peg Wynn, Senior Vice President, documents make up nearly 10% of the Worldwide Human Resources content on the web.1 Charles Geschke and John Warnock, Subsets of PDF such as PDF/Archive Chairmen of the Board and PDF/X have been ratified by inter- national standards bodies. Flagship Products Knowledge Worker Solutions Select Industry Recognition Adobe Acrobat®—Launched in 1993 Creative Solutions #13 best company to work for in Family of products that provide business, America (FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Adobe Creative Suite— technical, and creative professionals a Best Companies to Work For,” 2005); Launched in 2003 flexible, reliable, and more secure way highest-ranked software company. Unified design environment for print, to share and collaborate on intelligent web, and mobile publishing that documents. One of Canada’s 2005 Top 100 Employers delivers the next level of integration (Maclean’s Magazine, 2004). in creative software. Adobe Acrobat® Connect™— Launched in 20035 #15 Great Places to Work India (Grow Adobe Photoshop—Launched in 1990 High-impact online conferencing and col- Talent Company Ltd./Businessworld, 2005). Professional industry standard for digital laborative web communications solution #2 software company in America’s Most image editing and creation, and leader of that everyone can access instantly. Admired Companies 2006 (Fortune, 2006). the Photoshop digital imaging line. Enterprise and Developer Solutions #28 in the BusinessWeek 50 (BusinessWeek’s Adobe InDesign —Launched in 1999 ® “50 Top Performers,” 2005). Professional layout and design software Adobe LiveCycle™—Launched in 2004 that delivers swift production workflows, A family of server products for the enter- #19 Most Generous Company (In-Kind a fluid creative environment, and prise that automates and simplifies the Giving); #29 Most Generous Company sophisticated graphics and typography. flow of information and securely extends (Cash Giving) (BusinessWeek, 2004). business processes beyond the firewall. Adobe Premiere® Pro—Launched in 1991 Adobe Flex™—Launched in 2003 Powerful, frame-accurate, real-time Financial information can be found on Adobe’s Investor digital video and audio editing software. Familiar, standards-based program- Relations site at http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/ ming framework and powerful set of invrelations/. Adobe After Effects®—Launched in 1993 building blocks for creating a richer, Additional information regarding Adobe’s executive Essential motion graphics and visual more responsive presentation tier for team can be found on the Executive Profiles page at effects tool for digital video production enterprise applications. http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/ executivebios/. work. Mobile Solutions Adobe’s integrated corporate, fiscal, and product Macromedia Studio—Launched in 2002 timeline (1982-2005) can be viewed at http://www.adobe. The essential software suite used to Adobe Flash Lite™— com/aboutadobe/. design, develop, and maintain interactive Launched in 2002 Flash profile specifically developed 1 School of Information Management and Systems at online experiences. the University of California, Berkeley, October 2003 for mobile phones. Macromedia Flash—Launched in 1996 2 Based on a U.S. Sample. Total player penetration is a Macromedia FlashCast™— calculation of the total number of web users, divided by The industry’s most advanced authoring the resulting percentage from an NPD survey. environment for creating interactive Launched in 2004 End-to-end solution to meet the demand websites, engaging digital experiences, 3 JPR Digital Content Creation Report 2005; Streaming Advertising and Subscription Media 2003-2006 and high-impact mobile content.3 for compelling, consistently updated, easy-to-use mobile data services. 4 NPD Techworld, May 2005 Macromedia Dreamweaver— Adobe Reader® LE—Launched in 2004 Launched in 1997 5 Originally launched as Macromedia Breeze® Industry-leading web development tool, Universal client software optimized for enabling users to efficiently design, interacting with Adobe PDF documents develop, and maintain standards-based on mobile devices. websites and applications.4
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