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Adobe

Few new computers spend much time out of the box before their owners install Reader, free software from Adobe that people use to read PDFs (portable document format), documents that look exactly the same no matter what computer they’re viewed on.

Adobe Acrobat generates those PDFs, and its capabilities extend to the software as a service (aka cloud computing) platform Acrobat.com.

PDFs can even include video and audio now that they can contain Flash, an Adobe web standard. Photoshop enables professional photo manipulation, InDesign enables layout of thousands of periodicals and professional documents, Dreamweaver does the same for untold numbers of websites…

These descriptions of Adobe software are as cursory as the list of Adobe software is incomplete. Suffice it to say Adobe produces tools that enable publication of just about any type of information imaginable.

Check the list below for articles and blog posts mentioning Adobe products and their uses as business tools: