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Teams vs. enterprise offerings

Creative Cloud has two business offerings to support organizations.

Creative Cloud for teams

The world’s best creative apps and services for design, photography, video, and web, plus Creative Cloud Libraries, an Admin Console for easy license management, 24/7 tech support, 1:1 expert sessions, and 1TB storage.

Creative Cloud for enterprise

Everything Creative Cloud for teams offers, plus customizable access to cloud services, single sign-on, advanced user management, sharing restrictions, and enterprise-grade support.

Security

  • In-transit asset encryption
  • At-rest encrypted multitenant storage
  • User authentication with business ID
  • Asset sharing options controlled by the administrator

Get CC for teams security features plus:

  • User authentication/SSO—With Federated ID, ensure secured access to Creative Cloud apps and reinforce intellectual property with single sign-on (such as Okta).
  • Advanced user management—Synchronize added/removed seats with active directory, simplifying new hire setup and removing access when employees leave (Azure, Google).
  • Content logs—Get reports on how users work with corporate assets to ensure usage is aligned with business needs.
  • Dedicated encryption key—Your IP and creative content are encrypted both in transit and at rest. For extra security, you can have a dedicated encryption key for your organization.

Deployment and management

A web-based Admin Console to:

  • Easily assign and re-assign licenses to users 
  • Centralize IT deployment
  • Manage all Creative Cloud and Acrobat DC licenses from one place

Get CC for teams management capabilities plus:

  • Customized user groups—Create user groups based on cost center, location, or product assignment—with a shared set of permissions to simplify management and charge backs.
  • Multiple admin roles—Delegate license management by assigning admin roles that include:
    • System administrator
    • Product administrator
    • Deployment administrator
    • Support delegate
  • Service permissions—Control access to services by individual or group.

Collaboration control    

  • Creative Cloud Libraries to share colors, images, and more across teams 
  • 1TB of storage per user 
  • Integration with Microsoft Teams, Slack, and other business tools

Get CC for teams collaboration features plus:

  • Advanced asset control—Control users’ sharing restrictions (such as no public link or limited to authorized domains) and access requests.
  • CC for enterprise free membership—Enable employees to access brand-approved assets and collaborate with design teams securely using the organization’s business identity.
  • Enterprise workflow integrations—Adobe Asset Link connects Adobe Experience Manager Assets (DAM) to your Creative Cloud tools—so you can easily collaborate, upload, and drag and drop assets directly from InDesign, XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator. 
Support
  • 24x7 technical support with dedicated phone line, plus email, chat, and forums
  • Two 1:1 phone and web conference Expert Services sessions per user (All Apps plan only)
  • Live chat and forums
  • Access to thousands of step-by-step guides and videos to learn Creative Cloud tools 

Get CC for teams support plus:

  • Enterprise-level assistance—24x7 technical support with a dedicated phone line and priority access, a personal orientation call, and the ability to create and track support tickets in the Adobe Admin Console
  • Unlimited Expert Services sessions per user—Creative staff get unlimited 1:1 phone sessions with Adobe specialists to help them solve workflow issues and get up to speed on new features (All Apps plan only)
  • Onboarding specialist—An Adobe onboarding specialist partners with CC for enterprise customers to make sure their deployments run smoothly and they know the ins-and-outs of managing their software licenses


When to recommend Creative Cloud for enterprise

While Creative Cloud for enterprise is the obvious choice for large-scale organizations, the VIP offering of Creative Cloud for enterprise makes sense for many small and medium sized businesses as well. If your customers have needs in any of the following areas, recommend Creative Cloud for enterprise:

Multiple teams

Creative Cloud licenses (including Acrobat) will be spread across multiple teams or departments. 

Customer type: Enterprise (1000+ employees), Financial Services

Multiple locations

Creative Cloud licenses would be spread across multiple locations and/or cost centers.

Customer type: Enterprise (1,000+ employees), Manufacturing and Processing

Highly regulated industries

Advanced identity management and user authentication is required because security is the top priority.

Customer type: SMB (100+ employees), Real Estate, Financial Services, Healthcare