ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.

(ADBE)
 DEFINITION OF ADOBE

• A Smartphone, games, websites and video’s are all touched by Adobe

technology.
• Adobe is a computer software company that focus on the creation of
creativity and multimedia software products.
• It provides creative multimedia software products such as Adobe
Photoshop.
HISTORY
Adobe is an American multinational
computer software company.
It was founded in February 1982 by
John Warnock and Charles
Geschke.
The company headquarters is in
San jose,california,U.S.
The name of the company “Adobe”
came from Adobe Creek in Los Altos,
California, which ran behind the
houses of both company founders.
 ADOBE’S DEVELOPMENT FROM
PAST TO PRESENT
• Historically, Adobe Company focused on creating multimedia and creativity
software products towards rich Internet application software development.
• Later, the company started to improve each year by adding newer software
products such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex.
• It started to have major development operations in many countries such as
San Francisco and Washington.
• In 1995, Adobe company ranked as one of the most remaining places to
work by Fortune magazine ever since. And by 2007, It ranked as the 9th
largest software company in the whole world.
 SOFTWARES OF ADOBE

Adobe’s first product in software market is Adobe Illustrator, a vector based

drawing programme in 1980s
In 1989 Adobe introduced Adobe Photoshop, a graphic design software
This software became very popular and income of Adobe increased from 1
billion dollars to 4 billion dollars
In 1993 it introduced PDF, a Portable Document Format and its Adobe
Acrobat and reader
Adobe introduced many of software's which we were currently using
 LOCATIONS

North America Asia Australia& Europe South America

New Zealand Middle east&
Africa

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 FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Fiscal year Revenue

2008 $3.58 billion

Fiscal year Revenue

2007 $3.158 billion 1999 $1.015 billion

2006 $2.675 billion 1998 $0.895 billion
2005 $1.966 billion
1997 $0.912 billion
2004 $1.667 billion
2003 $1.295 billion 1996 $0.787 billion

2002 $1.165 billion 1995 $0.762 billion

2001 $1.230 billion
1994 $0.676 billion
2000 $1.156 billion
 REFERENCES

"Adobe Logo History" (HTML).

http://worldsbestlogos.blogspot.com/2007/08/adobe-systems-logo-history.html.
"Adobe timeline" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2006-01-06.
http://www.archive.org/download/AdobeTimeline2005/timeline.pdf.
"Patents owned by Adobe Systems". US Patent & Trademark Office.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-
adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=an%2F%22Adobe+Systems%22&d=ptxt.
Retrieved on 8 December 2005.
San Jose Semaphore on Adobe's building
"Adobe Systems Incorporated Company Profile". Yahoo!.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/12/12518.html.