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NOVEMBER 6, 2019 ISSUE
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Creative Cloud. Where creativity meets productivity.
The latest release of Creative Cloud for teams is here, and it’s packed with new apps and features designed to fuel creativity and help everyone work more efficiently.
Now your customers can explore new creative frontiers in augmented reality, painting and drawing, and more. Highlights include:
- All-new Adobe Aero, for viewing, building and sharing interactive AR experiences
- Photoshop on iPad and cloud documents to take creativity to new places
- All-new Adobe Fresco for natural drawing and painting on iPad and Windows devices
- Simplified object selection, enhanced Transform Warp, and more in Photoshop
- Simplified vector paths, peak performance, and faster rendering of Drop Shadows, Gaussian Blurs, and more in Illustrator
- Reverse spell check, variable fonts, and SVG import support in InDesign
- Panorama fill edges, in-app tutorials, and contextual help in
Lightroom - And much more
New assets available
Get overviews to share with your customers, marketing assets such as channcel copy and an email template, conversation guides for the newest apps, product demo videos, and more.
Download the new Creative Cloud assets >
MAX briefing
Learn more about what was annnounced at MAX, including the asset plan and localization schedule, customer marketing and communication plan, and sales positioning to help you make the most of this exciting release.
New Acrobat DC customer security webinar
It's not too late to invite your customers to the Acrobat DC webinar series. The overall theme of this series is “Boost your IT efficiencies and workforce productivity with Acrobat DC.” It is intended for IT in small and medium-sized businesses that own previous versions of Acrobat perpetual, as well as prospects that could benefit from learning more about Acrobat DC.
Invite your customers to attend the fourth Acrobat DC webinar in the series, "Mitigate potential security risks across devices with Adobe Acrobat DC," on November 19. Adobe Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin will discuss Adobe’s approach to help protect the security of desktop and cloud services. In this session, customers will learn how to help keep their information secure at the document application and operating system level and how to safeguard the integrity of their documents. Register your customers today.
You will find partner promo assets, including email templates, website banners, social assets, and a campaign execution guide in the Acrobat IT Webinar Series promo kit. Please help us get the word out to your Acrobat customers and prospects about this exciting and informative event.
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COLLEAGUE CONNECTIONS
Meet Maria Febres-Cordero
Role: Sales Enablement Training Coordinator
Office location: Maidenhead, UK
Time at Adobe: 2 months or 10 weeks (for people with children)
Biggest achievement at Adobe: Winning the People’s Choice Award for “Why Adobe?” pitch at the EMEA sales training on my second week
Who’s your partner in crime: Andrea Palao and Maddy Moss
Advice you’d give to a new employee: There are frozen fruit bags in the freezer to make smoothies! On a more serious note, arrange introductory meetings with anyone and everyone (inside and outside your org) to get to know other areas of the business and connect with more people.
How about hobbies: Watching all the films—any and all suggestions welcome
What are you most proud of (work or personal life): Speaking four languages (although my French is rusty, so pardon my French)
Favorite quote: “Wherever you are in life is exactly where you need to be right now” (Mark Henson), so don’t fret and go with the flow.
Who/What inspires you: My mum has always been and always will be my inspiration. She found an opportunity to emigrate from Venezuela when things started to deteriorate so my brother and I could have better opportunities, so I’ll always be grateful for her.
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RECENT EVENTS
Adobe MAX 2019: Creative Cloud new apps briefing
Get a review of what was announced at MAX this year, including exciting updates to Creative Cloud apps and services as well as brand-new apps Aero, Fresco, and Photoshop on iPad.
We share the asset plan and localization schedule, customer marketing and communication plan, and sales positioning to help you make the most of this exciting release to drive sales and retention.
Acrobat DC October release enablement
Join us to learn about the new features in Acrobat DC in the October 15 release, as well as current migration offers.
Acrobat DC September enablement
September's enablement session covered TLP sub-100 seat offers for Acrobat DC and the education price changes for Acrobat DC as well as new offers.
SALES TOOL SPOTLIGHT
Product Power in Half an Hour
Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn something new, in five simple steps. Whether you are at a barbeque or speaking to customers, these short tutorials will give you an experience with our products that you can share in conversations.
Admin Console Sandbox for Value Incentive Plan (VIP)
The Admin Console is a single interface that gives admins one place to log in and manage their users and licenses. Use this sandbox to see what VIP admins will have access to, but keep in mind that demo accounts can have some limitations because engineering priority is placed on the production version. This specific sandbox has a mix of team and enterprise offerings, so you can see the different features (like provisioning by user group) side by side. If you wish to share this sandbox with a customer, please do so by sharing your screen and guiding them. But please don't share this link for independent use.
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