Adobe’s remarkable transformation, from Photoshop to cloud

In the world of corporate business, changes are inevitable and with the shift in technology, it is evident that all companies are trying to align themselves with the new trends. However, among all the behemoths of IT, it is Adobe that has undergone what you understand by the phrase, paradigm shift. Adobe has been in the business for years, providing software like flash, Photoshop and Acrobat to readers, designers and photographers worldwide.

However, with the cloud turn in business, Adobe was being ridiculed for sticking to boxed software. However, Adobe has adapted to cloud so quickly and seamlessly, it is being hailed as the biggest corporate transformation ever.

Everyone going gaga

If you listen to what the biggest analysts of Wall Street and beyond are saying, you will see that they are heaping praise over Adobe and even in the last year’s statistical reports, Adobe registered a 22 percent gain in sales with a whopping 85 percent jump in profit. Its shares have jumped 55 percent to a staggering 150 dollars, leaving behind other giants like Facebook, Oracle and Alphabet. Needless to say, the statistics shows a story of staggering, unprecedented growth that has taken the Silicon Valley by storm.

However, as sudden as it may seem, Adobe has been preparing it for the last half a decade. Adobe has been around for two decades now and has seen the whole arc from CD-ROM to cloud. In fact, Adobe has changed its pay scale heavily because the sales and the marketing departments, the accounting sections and all the associated departments that have worked hard during the change had to be compensated properly.

A different trajectory

Unlike the other big names like Google or Microsoft, Adobe does not deal with regular activities such as emails or text files. Adobe belongs to a particular niche of people, save Acrobat. Hence, Adobe’s Creative Cloud is an attempt to expand the possibilities of Adobe by operating in the juncture of desktop software and cloud services. Thus, updating becomes easier and most interestingly, subscription has skyrocketed for Adobe. Unlike others who are still oscillating between cloud and data centre, Adobe was never in two minds and hence, has opted for it right away.

Digital marketing- a new venture

Adobe has realized that digital marketing holds the key to business expansions and hence, revenues have spiked up 28 percent over the last two years. Nowadays, nobody would simply create an image in Photoshop, they will do something about it in the cloud and furthermore, use it somewhere else. By mediating in this process, Adobe is trying to break into the digital marketing paradigm by connecting the dots.

So much so, Adobe has surpassed everyone’s expectations in the last six months and to top it all, it is now investing in AI. They look forward to combine virtual reality and voice instructions with Photoshop and Premier Pro. In fact, simpler versions of Photoshop may arrive very soon as Adobe has acquired a start-up that provides photo editing filters to multiple apps.