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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

• wned & 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?

Questions?