Adobe Inc. (formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated)

Adobe Inc. is an American multinational software company founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Adobe is best known for pioneering PostScript page description language and for creating widely used products for creative professionals and enterprises, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Acrobat (PDF), and the Creative Cloud suite. Over decades the company expanded from desktop publishing and graphics software into digital media, marketing, document management, and cloud-based services.

Adobe has grown through both product development and acquisitions, and it shifted its primary commercial model to subscription-based cloud services (Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud). The company also historically developed and distributed multimedia runtimes such as Adobe Flash Player (end-of-life in 2020). Today Adobe serves creative professionals, marketers, and enterprises with a combination of desktop and web apps, cloud services, and develope...