December 5, 2019

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DECEMBER 5, 2019 ISSUE

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Adobe Stock Credit Packs for education customers

Adobe Stock Credit Packs can now be sold to education customers. However, please note the following when selling Adobe Stock to the education market:

In VIP, currently only Stock for teams products are available—subscriptions and credit packs. Team subscriptions must be assigned to a user to be activated, while credit packs do not require activation after purchase. In both cases, the entitlement is automatically shared with all users of the organization.

Because the Adobe Stock site contains images that are not appropriate for children under the age of 18, and there is no way to disable Adobe Stock for just those users, sales people should be cautious when selling Adobe Stock to education customers that may have minors as end users.

The auto-sharing of Adobe Stock for teams products is expected and intentional product behavior. Configurable access to using a Stock entitlement is available in Adobe Stock for enterprise.

Acrobat 2015 End of Support campaign kit

There is still a large base of customers who own Acrobat 2015 and have not migrated to Acrobat DC subscription yet.

Starting April 7, 2020, Adobe will no longer offer technical support or security updates for any edition of Adobe Acrobat 2015 or Adobe Reader 2015, as outlined in Adobe’s Support Lifecycle Policy. When product updates end, Acrobat 2015 may no longer be compatible with future Microsoft operating system releases or quarterly updates.

It’s important to let customers know about this critical change in Acrobat support. It also gives you an opportunity to reach out to these customers to migrate them to subscription before product support ends on April 7, 2020. And now is the perfect time to let them know that there are migration offers available—no matter their footprint—when they move from Acrobat 2015 to Acrobat DC via the Value Incentive Plan (VIP).

For more information, you can access the Acrobat 2015 End of Support campaign kit that is now available in UE on Consumer & Business Connection. (You must log in to access it.) The localized kits will be available in French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese in late December.

Contact your Adobe Channel Account manager for information on accessing customer lists, pricing, and SKUs.

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

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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.

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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.

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SALES TOOL SPOTLIGHT

Why switch to Adobe Stock for teams

A two-page battlecard of Adobe Stock value propositions and competitor comparison.

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Value Incentive Plan calculator

Use this handy calculator to determine the appropriate Creative Cloud and Acrobat DC product SKUs for your customer.

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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.

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