Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared at the Adobe Insight event to highlight the extended initiative, which also saw a demo of how Unilever uses ODI to help reduce their plastic packaging.
Adobe kicked off its Adobe Summit customer event in Las Vegas with its CEO explaining how Adobe ate its own dog food to digitally transform and fundamentally reshape what had been a successful business. He was then followed by Best Buy’s CEO, who described how his company had followed the same strategy to revitalize a company that had been on many endangered lists.
Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.
Adobe also announced a brand new partnership with ServiceNow which the companies say will lead to significant advances in the integration of customer experience data.
Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
Extension of Federated Data Access connectors to Hadoop will be significant in the high end of the market, and for Adobe channel partners who work in that space.
Defendpoint 5.0 also adds a Trusted Application Protection capability to prevent attacks against trusted applications like Microsoft Office, Adobe, and web browsers.
LULU becomes the first PDF vendor to develop an app that, like Office 365, can be accessed from any browser, on any device.
Adobe missed sales and profit estimates in its most recent quarterly earnings report, as the company transitions to a cloud subscriptions.
Storage and connectivity vendor looks to reach new group of VARs with distribution deal
Distributor says new tool will make software licenses easier to acquire
New Protected Mode makes it more difficult for an infected PDF to connect to the file system
