Adobe Inc. is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California. The company uses its software innovations to connect content and data as well as to introduce new technologies that democratize creativity, influence the next generation of storytelling, and pioneer new categories of business. Its primary applications are used in graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures and print. In 2022, Adobe was reported to have in excess of 26,000 employees globally.