Adobe Software

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose, California
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: ADBE NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Computer software
Founded	December 1982; 34 years ago (1982-12) Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founders	John Warnock Charles Geschke
Headquarters	Adobe World Headquarters, San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Shantanu Narayen (President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board)
Products	List of Adobe products
Revenue	US$5.85 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$987 million (2016)
Net income	US$478 million (2016)
Total assets	US$12.85 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$7.89 billion (2016)
Number of employees	15,706 (Q4, 2016)
Website	Adobe.com

Coordinates: 37°19′50″N 121°53′38″W / 37.3306844°N 121.8939647°W / 37.3306844; -121.8939647

Adobe Systems Incorporated (/əˈdoʊbiː/) is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop 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.