How companies benefit from used Adobe software licences

PREO offers legal compliance and high price advantages when buying or selling used software

Whether it's brand building, corporate design development, customer communication, acquiring new customers or recruiting new employees - companies today have to present themselves and their products and services professionally in a wide variety of fields in order to be visible and stand out from the competition. New content is constantly being created and transported to the respective target group via analogue or digital channels. The Adobe Creative Suite (CS) offers a software package with a variety of powerful applications for this purpose. This enables employees to turn creative ideas and visions into impressive designs, graphics or animations. Companies that want to upgrade their marketing and communications departments or even set up their own in-house agency are faced with the question of whether they want to licence the latest CS version in a cloud-based subscription model or whether they would prefer to fall back on a cost-effective, used on-premise licence.

In this blog post, we will therefore take a closer look at the Adobe Creative Suite and show how the legally compliant use of used Adobe licences can deliver significant cost benefits for companies.

Used software from Adobe - what the Creative Suite offers companies

As widely used standard software, the Adobe Creative Suite is primarily used by marketing and communications departments in medium-sized and large companies as well as agencies, printers, publishers, film and video production companies and the media and entertainment industry. The most common and best-known software programmes in the suite are:

Adobe Photoshop: a powerful image editing programme for photo retouching, graphic design and digital art, which is particularly suitable for companies in the photography, marketing and web design sectors.

Adobe Illustrator: A vector graphics editor for creating logos, illustrations and infographics. Illustrator is ideal for companies in advertising, graphic design and branding.

Adobe InDesign: A layout and desktop publishing programme for creating print materials such as magazines, brochures, sales and advertising material or books. It is particularly useful for advertising agencies, publishers and marketing and communications departments.

Adobe Dreamweaver: A web design and development tool for creating and editing websites or landing pages and therefore particularly suitable for website operators and developers or digital agencies.

Adobe After Effects: A programme for visual effects and motion graphics. It is used to insert animations and special effects into films or videos. This is becoming increasingly important in the context of digital corporate communication.

Adobe Acrobat Pro: The well-known standard application programme for creating, editing and sharing PDF documents, which is often purchased by companies independently of the Creative Suite as a volume licence for the Standard or Professional version.

The advantages of used Adobe CS licences for companies

PREO currently offers various licence versions of Adobe Creative Suites 5 and 6, from Standard to Production and Web Professional, Design and Web Premium to the Master Collection, primarily in English and German for Mac and Windows PC. By purchasing used volume licences, companies secure:

1. High price advantages of up to 70 per cent compared to the respective new version.

2. Verified legal compliance, as all licences offered come 100 percent from transparent sources and the initial licensing was carried out exclusively in the EU. It is not for nothing that security and compliance in licence transfer are PREO's top priority.

3. More independence from the availability and unpredictable price fluctuations of cloud-based subscription models.

That sounds interesting, but you still have questions? Our licence experts will be happy to advise you personally and provide you with a free, no-obligation quote based on your licence requirements.

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PREO tip: Sell licences that are no longer required in full or in part

Companies should not simply write off unused or no longer required Adobe volume licences. It makes more economic sense to sell them to a reputable and experienced provider of used software with extensive legal expertise in the licence business. Our free downloadable checklist will help you make the right choice. The income generated by the sale expands the existing IT budget and creates welcome financial leeway. In addition, the secondary or multiple utilisation of software products makes an important contribution to an active circular economy and can thus be included in the sustainability reporting that is becoming mandatory for more and more companies.

Convincing advantages - used software from PREO for on-prem operation

We are one of the pioneers in the European trade in used software licences. In addition to used Adobe licences, we offer companies, organisations and public administrations a large selection of used volume licences for widely used standard software from Microsoft at any time, enabling them to optimise their licence costs in the long term and benefit in several ways:

• High savings on ongoing licence costs of up to 70 percent compared to the respective new version.
     
  
• 100% legally compliant and audit-proof licence acquisition with maximum transparency in all processing steps, including complete documentation in the PREO licence portal ‘Easy Compliance’.
  
  
• Many years of expertise in the integration of used software licences into traditional network structures or hybrid licence models.
  
  
• Greater sustainability in the IT sector by promoting an active circular economy and reducing the company's CO2 footprint. Speaking of sustainability: PREO is the first used software retailer to be listed with a scorecard by EcoVadis, the world's largest provider of sustainability ratings.
  
  
• Detailed market knowledge and extensive experience through the audit-proof transfer of over three and a half million used software licences.
  
  
• Existing software licence management capacities for large IT infrastructure projects with thousands of workstations and cross-border locations.
  
  
• Convincing reference projects for numerous medium-sized and large companies from a wide range of industries.

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