Adobe has said goodbye to its boxed versions of Creative Suite and moved their software platform to a service dubbed “Adobe Creative Cloud.” In July 2013, Softchoice hosted a free webinar providing a short and focused overview of the new Adobe Creative Cloud, and it's implications for organizations the world over.
5. Impact on your Business
5 Ways Creative Cloud Impacts Your Organization
(http://goo.gl/VR2au)
1. New normal for software distribution
2. Economics work to your advantage
3. 100% Compliance, means less risk
4. Collaboration with Cloud
5. Limited time for support for CS6
6. Purchasing Vehicles
All are subscription based
Value Incentive Plan (VIP)
Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA)
Education Enterprise Agreement (EEA)
CLP Government Term Offering (CLP-G)
7. VIP
Value Incentive Plan (VIP)
(Typically <125 Creative Users)
VIP is Adobe's new membership-based buying program
that customers join to purchase Creative Cloud for teams
Creative Cloud for teams is for small and midsize
organizations
Primarily for Commercial, but open to
EDU and GOV
9. What is Creative Cloud Packager?
What are the benefits of using Creative Cloud Packager?
Customization & Flexibility
Ease of Use
Creative Cloud Packager
10. ETLA
Enterprise Term License Agreement (ETLA)
(Typically >125 Creative Users)
Customizable term volume licensing program
designed for Adobe's top commercial, education,
and government customers
Can be used to purchase Creative Cloud for
enterprise, Acrobat, and other desktop products
Can be completely customized to cover individual
products, multiple products, or a wide range of
solutions offered by Adobe
11. Education Enterprise Agreement (EEA)
One-year or two-year term-based licensing program
Minimize the cost and complexity of providing Adobe
Creative Cloud desktop applications and other software
to their licensed faculty, staff, and students
EEA
14. CLP-G
CLP Government Term Offering for Adobe
Creative Cloud Desktop Apps (CLP-G for CCDA)
(http://goo.gl/TIXFX)
Term-based product offering for new or existing CLP
Government customers.
Does not include Creative Cloud storage, online
services, or require internet connectivity
Ideal for Government customers that need to be behind
a secure firewall or are in an area with limited to no
internet access
15. Promotion
Lock in a $39.99 renewal price for all CCT seats
purchased by August 31, 2013
Commercial and GOV customers
Promotion (now through
August 31, 2013)
Promotion (Sepetmber 1 - December
31, 2013)
1st Year $39.99/month ($480/year) $49.99/month ($600/year)
2nd Year $39.99/month ($480/year) No Promo - $69.99/month ($840/year)
SAVINGS $720/subscription $240/subscription
16. Adobe Creative Cloud & Softchoice Cloud:
Better Together
Jeremy Baynes
Softchoice Cloud Technical Architect, Softchoice Corp.
17. Softchoice Cloud Platform
Suite of services designed to make your journey to the cloud
as easy as possible
Provides all of the advisory, services and tools to transition
Adobe (and other software platforms) seamlessly to the cloud.
21. Adobe Creative Cloud & SC Cloud:
Better Together
• Advisory Services from leading
Adobe Subject Matter Experts
• Adobe Tech Check
• Provisioning/Deprovisioning for
Adobe Creative Cloud
• Single Sign on for Creative Cloud
and your other SaaS apps
• Ability to drive improved Adobe
Creative Cloud and other cloud app
adoption
22. Next Steps
1. Call your Softchoice Rep or e-mail
Adobe@softchoice.com to set up a call with our in house
Adobe specialists
2. Help you plan and roadmap your transition from Creative
Suite to Creative Cloud
3. Discuss your overall Cloud strategy and how Softchoice
Cloud can facilitate the move to the cloud across all your
SaaS apps
Now let’s talk about how to actually use the Admin Console to provision and manage Creative Cloud for teams. In the team management screen, you can do a number of things including add seats, invite users, monitor their usage, etc.
What is Creative Cloud Packager? Creative Cloud Packager is a tool that enables administrators to centrally deploy all Creative Cloud applications, or a customized subset. Creative Cloud Packager ensures version parity across desktops, saving support costs and network congestion. What are the benefits of using Creative Cloud Packager? Creative Cloud Packager enables you, the IT admin, to maintain control of how Creative Cloud applications (and feature updates) are installed. Centralized deployment ensures that everyone is on the same version of the software, which reduces support costs. Centralized deployment also prevents network congestion, as you don’t have multiple users downloading the same bits at the same time. Customization & Flexibility You can tailor the Creative Cloud packages to meet the needs of your team. For example you can package Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign for some team members, and then provide all of the video production tools to others. As the team grows and evolves, different packages can be created and deployed in order to ensure team members always have the tools they need to be successful. You can choose 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the applications, and specify advanced configuration options, providing greater control. Ease of Use Creative Cloud Packager has an easy-to-use interface that makes it simple to create a deployment package. The packages created by Creative Cloud Packager are in familiar, industry-standard formats (MSI in Windows, PKG in Mac OS) that are compatible with familiar, industry-standard deployment solutions such as SSCM and ARD.