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Narrowed Focus
In restructuring the company, Adobe said it will focus on two market segments—digital media and digital market.
Stay Creative
Adobe will continue to deliver innovation on PCs through its Creative Suite software while extending its customer reach through tablet-based touch apps and cloud-based software delivery.
Subscriptions
Adobe is making a shift to more subscriptions in an effort to attract new customers and increase recurring revenue.
HTML5
Adobe is shifting resources to support even greater investment in HTML5, through tools like Dreamweaver, Edge and PhoneGap, recently added through the acquisition of Nitobi.
Flash Mobile
Adobe has stopped developing Flash for mobile browsers and is focusing Flash resources on delivering the most advanced PC Web experiences, including gaming and premium video, as well as mobile apps.
Digital Publishing
Adobe is enhancing digital publishing solutions to empower media companies to profit through publishing their content to any screen.
Video Advertising
Adobe is investing in media monetization, including the large growth opportunity in video advertising, facilitated by the acquisition of Auditude.
Electronic Signatures
Adobe is intent on extending its capabilities in document services with its Acrobat product line and by increasing its focus on the growing category of electronic contracts and signatures through the recent acquisition of EchoSign.
Analytics
Adobe's renewed focus also looks at extending its position in analytics and reporting to drive rapid growth in new areas such as mobile and social.
Personalization
Adobe is personalizing digital experiences across all digital channels, ensuring that customers can deliver the most relevant, customized content in real time.
Multichannel Management
Adobe will be driving multichannel campaign management, enabling marketers to make informed decisions about all aspects of a marketing campaign, from search to email to display advertising.
Monetization
Adobe is accelerating media monetization solutions for content publishers by enabling them to segment their audiences and maximize their advertising revenue. Adobe is leveraging the company's acquisitions of Demdex and Auditude this year.
Go International
Adobe sees potential for aggressive growth internationally.
Cloud
Leveraging the company's Creative Cloud could mean 15 to 20 percent annual seat growth, according to Adobe officials.
Big SaaS
Adobe hopes to transform the impact of digital marketing and build a $1 billion software-as-a-service (SAAS) business.
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Adobe Systems has announced a company restructuring that will include about 750 job cuts, primarily in North America and Europe. On Nov. 8, the company, which makes content authoring solutions, provided a business update for its fourth quarter fiscal year 2011. Officials announced plans to further align Adobe's business around the growth categories of digital media and digital marketing solutions. In digital media, the company is an industry leader in content authoring solutions, enabling customers to create, distribute and monetize digital content. In digital marketing, the company intends to be the leader in solutions to manage, measure and optimize digital marketing and advertising, Adobe officials said. They also said Adobe will stop developing Flash for mobile browsers. In a blog post, Danny Winokur, vice president and general manager of interactive development at Adobe, said: "Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook."