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Licensing Information for Adobe Products. Tony Parsley. Licensing Information for Adobe Products. Current State Future State What’s Next?. Current State. Adobe Creative Cloud & Adobe Acrobat DC/Pro Licensed by install
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Licensing Information for Adobe Products Tony Parsley
Licensing Information for Adobe Products • Current State • Future State • What’s Next?
Current State • Adobe Creative Cloud & Adobe Acrobat DC/Pro • Licensed by install • Number of Workstations w/ Adobe CC or Acrobat DC/Pro ~1,634 (installed) • Cost to UTC $62,941.34(IT Budget – UT System charge based on head count)
Future State • Serialized licenses are no more • Named vs Shared Device License • Named: License for 2 Devices (UTC owned & personally-owned computer) • Shared: Licensed by Install (Shared Device – i.e. Computer Lab)
Future State • Licenses allocated to UTC: 1,473 • Yearly request by Employees • Employees download specific applications from Adobe directly • UTC will not distribute Adobe software any longer • Cost to UTC not expected to go up this next year. But!
What's Next? • Current contract ends June 30th • Still waiting on final contract review • Meeting with UT/UTK • Review Adobe Mgt. Tool • Uninstall previous Adobe CC & Adobe DC/Pro • Develop communication plan to the campus. • Cost model going forward?