Adobe Systems (ADBE)

Adobe's cash-rich, fast-growing creative empire clashes with Snowflake's data-cloud boom, and the valuation gap between them is hard to ignore.

Adobe has posted eight straight quarters of growth, while Accenture's revenue swings mask a deeper story about business stability.

Today, at Adobe MAX—the world’s largest creativity conference—Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE)—the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms—announced agentic AI innovations in Adobe GenStudio, an end-to-end content supply chain solution. As brands look to scale customer experiences that feel personal and relevant, Adobe is enabling teams to build the “Studio of the Future,” where integrated solutions and AI agents help accelerate personalized content production. By bringing Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker (the industry's leading agentic teammate for Customer Experience Orchestration) into GenStudio, creatives and marketers can leverage a conversational interface to streamline processes such as creating personalized asset variations and focus on higher-value tasks around messaging and creative. This is anchored in a contextual layer that Adobe can uniquely provide—drawing on decades of powering enterprise creativity—for agents to manage brand adherence as teams ramp up content production and drive impactful marketing campaigns.

Today at Adobe MAX, the world’s largest creativity conference, Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Google announced an expanded strategic partnership to bring Adobe’s tools to more Google products and Google’s AI models into more Adobe apps. Acrobat will be available in Google Workspace through Google Drive and Gmail. Adobe will expand its connectors in Gemini and Gemini Enterprise with Acrobat and additional creative tools, while also bringing its creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search. Google’s latest imaging and video models will come to Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, and Adobe Express, and Google’s family of Gemini models will help power AI capabilities in Acrobat. Adobe and Google DeepMind will also collaborate on new AI-powered editing capabilities, starting with Photoshop. The partnership aims to deliver more seamless, integrated workflows that help more people—from creators and creative professionals to enterprise teams and digital workers—bring ideas to life faster and create higher-quality content.

Today at Adobe MAX — the world's largest creativity conference — Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) — the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms — announced innovations that transform Creative Cloud tools into agentic workflows, built with the precision and control pros expect, giving creatives more time for their craft. The Adobe Creative Agent is expanding across Creative Cloud, orchestrating multi-step workflows so creative professionals can delegate and direct work, increasing their creative velocity. Adobe also previewed the local MCP integrations that will allow pros to use Creative Cloud tools from their preferred third-party agents.

Today at Adobe MAX — the world's largest creativity conference — Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) — the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms — expanded Adobe Firefly as the AI creative studio, with new agentic capabilities, top industry models and AI-powered tools that give every creator one place to ideate, create and scale. Adobe is expanding the Adobe Creative Agent across Firefly, with new capabilities in Firefly AI Assistant (beta) and deeper integrations across workflows that give every creator a creative partner they can direct using their own words and take on projects and work that was once out of reach.

Today at Adobe MAX — the world's largest creativity conference — Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) — the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms — announced new agents and tools in Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud and Adobe GenStudio that deliver everything creators, creative professionals and marketers need, wherever and however they create.

Today at Adobe MAX—the world’s largest creativity conference— Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE)—a global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms—and The Walt Disney Company have announced a multi-year strategic alliance to advance creativity, innovation and the art of storytelling through new technologies and experiences. Building on the companies’ longstanding relationship, the alliance enables Adobe to amplify their innovation stories with Walt Disney World® Resort, Disneyland® Resort, Disney Cruise Line, ESPN Edge and StudioLAB through global marketing activations, industry events, thought leadership, customer storytelling and other strategic engagement opportunities. In addition, this deeper collaboration will advance opportunities to explore emerging technologies, including responsibly developed AI, in support of Disney’s creative teams.

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Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE), the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms, today announced that Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker, the industry’s leading agentic teammate for customer experience orchestration, is now available within leading AI platforms including ChatGPT (as a plugin), Claude, Databricks Genie, Gemini for business and Microsoft Copilot – with availability in Amazon Quick, IBM and Snowflake expected soon. With CX Enterprise Coworker, marketing professionals can better plan, orchestrate and optimize customer experiences using the agentic AI platforms of their choice, right where they work.

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