What is Adobe Licensing
How does Adobe Licensing Work
An Adobe license is what gives you the right to use the corresponding Adobe product. It can generally only be obtained via a purchase with Adobe. Adobe has a variety of license types, and most of their products are Named User licenses, but they do have all of the following types in some form or another:
- Named User Licensing
This is the most popular method for Adobe Creative Cloud and is used to provide end-users with full functionality of software and services.
- Shared Device Licensing
This is popular with educational institutions (computer labs for example) where one device is used by many and they have access to Adobe’s services.
- Device Licensing
This allows institutions to use and assign the license to a particular device instead of an individual.
- Shared Number Licensing
This licensing method is ideal for remote deployment and for companies with a small customer base thus letting them use Adobe software as it is not tied to an individual.
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Adobe Licensing is all subscription now, right? So why do I have to worry about licensing?
Adobe’s creative apps are mostly licensed on a subscription basis, but this just means there are different rules around how the software can be used and deployed – not less rules! In addition to the creative applications, Adobe has a range of Acrobat products that can pose compliance risk as well.
Is it OK to run adobe products on a server?
Adobe software can be run on a server, but you need to be careful how other systems are interacting with that server, and if/how Adobe products are part of that interaction.
How Look Licensing can help?
Look licensing will conduct an inventory of your environment and highlight any and all cases of Adobe software on the network. Any of these deployments that pose a potential risk will be investigated so that any risks can be mitigated or eliminated.
Look Licensing can also work with you to match your purchase records up with the discovered deployments of Adobe software, so you can see how everything stacks up in one easy to read report.