Adobe: putting the “portable” into the PDF

January 27, 2015 — Today’s guest is John Landwehr, Public Sector chief technology officer at “Adobe”.

Adobe is one of the oldest names in the world of personal computing. Many listeners do not realize that is has been the backbone of how large enterprises manage.

During the interview, Landwehr talks about the humble origins of Adobe in Silicon Valley. He gives an overview of its connection to portable documents, with the well known Portable Document Format. One of the best quotes from the interview is, “We put the ‘portable’ into the PDF.

He makes a convincing case that Adobe has evolved from a company that can assure security in a document into a four billion dollar a year organization that can assist federal agencies in a wide range of activities.

You may not realize that Adobe is a leader in the area of social media. In fact, it holds a conference every year where it talks about analytics as well as digital, social, and mobile marketing techniques.

To that end, part of the conversation outlined what a federal information technology professional can to efficiently design and manage a mobile web site.

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