Adobe Creative Cloud: Teams vs. Enterprise - Making the Right Choice for Your Business

In the realm of digital creativity, Adobe Creative Cloud stands as the industry standard, providing a comprehensive set of tools for creative professionals.

Crafted for individuals and businesses alike, Adobe offers a variety of packages to suit a variety of requirements. Specifically, for businesses, Adobe provides two distinct offerings: Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise.

While both offer access to 20+ Creative Cloud apps, they serve different scales and needs.

Being a Gold Reseller Partner of Adobe, Noventiq India’s extensive experience in empowering our clients’ creative teams with Adobe’s cutting-edge solutions helps us understand what works for your business.

Adobe CC for Business at a Glance

• Access to 20+ Apps: Industry-leading tools to help you create for any medium.

• Creative Cloud Libraries: Assemble and categorize design elements in one place to maintain brand consistency and streamline creative workflows for your team.

• Collaborate: 1TB of storage per user allows your creative team to share and manage assets seamlessly. Share previews, collaborate, and restore versions up to 180 days.

• Free Resources: Access to free fonts, stock assets, templates, and more level up your workflow.

• Third-party Integration: Creative Cloud integrates with apps like Microsoft Teams, Slack, etc., further increasing productivity.

• Support: 24x7 tech support and two 1:1 expert sessions per user, per year.

In this article, we will conduct a thorough comparison based on four criteria to help you make an informed decision.

1. Licensing and Scalability

Creative Cloud for Teams: This plan is designed for SMBs i.e. small and medium-sized businesses. You pay for what you use - the licensing model is based on a per-user basis, making it easier for organizations to scale up as their creative teams grow.

Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams offers a flexibility that is especially advantageous for dynamic businesses that need to adapt to changing project requirements and team sizes.

Creative Cloud for Enterprise: This plan is designed for large organizations with more complex workflows. It offers flexible licensing options, including named user and device licenses, thus helping to accommodate unique organizational structures and requirements.

Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise also offers extensive administrative control and reporting tools, empowering IT administrators to manage software usage efficiently.

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2. Collaboration

Creative Cloud for Teams: It facilitates collaboration among team members with its cloud-based sharing and file storage. Team members can also collaborate on projects in real time, making it easy to review and edit creative work together.

Users also gain access to resources like Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud libraries, simplifying asset research, sharing, and integration for creative teams. Adobe Spark, included with Creative Cloud for Teams, allows for the creation and sharing of visual stories and web pages, enhancing communication within the team.

Creative Cloud for Enterprise: This takes collaboration to the next level with features like Single Sign-On (SSO) and Active Directory integration, ensuring seamless integration with your existing IT infrastructure.

Creative Cloud for Enterprise also provides advanced asset management and organization capabilities through Adobe Experience Manager, allowing businesses to maintain strict access control over their digital assets. It also supports integration with third-party project management and collaboration tools.

3. Security and Compliance

Creative Cloud for Teams: Security features in Creative Cloud for Teams are geared towards meeting the basic needs of smaller businesses. The platform offers essential security measures, including user authentication and data encryption, to safeguard your creative assets. However, control over access and permissions is limited compared to the Enterprise plan.

The Teams version is more suited to organizations with an existing security infrastructure, organizations with less stringent compliance requirements, or those operating in industries with a lower regulatory burden

Creative Cloud for Enterprise: For organizations with high security demands and strict compliance requirements, Creative Cloud for Business offers advanced security measures, including identity management, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and data loss prevention (DLP), to ensure your creative assets and data are protected.

This plan also enables admins to define access control and permissions precisely. Detailed auditing and compliance reporting tools provide valuable insights to organizations, helping them comply with industry regulations.

4.Support

Creative Cloud for Teams: This plan comes with standard customer support. Adobe's knowledge base provides a valuable resource for troubleshooting common issues and finding answers to frequently asked questions. Additionally, users have access to Adobe's learning resources and tutorials.

This is adequate for smaller teams with experienced users who require minimal assistance. However, for larger organizations that need extensive support or personalized training, the Enterprise version offers additional benefits

Creative Cloud for Enterprise: Each enterprise account has a dedicated account manager who provides personalized guidance and assistance. Issues are resolved promptly and effectively.

Furthermore, enterprises have priority support from Adobe's technical support team, reducing downtime and ensuring creative projects run smoothly. Customized training and onboarding options help organizations maximize the potential of the Creative Cloud suite.

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ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD FOR TEAMS VS. ENTERPRISE

Creative Cloud for Teams

Desktop and mobile apps
20+ apps, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and XD

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+ Unlimited access to standard Adobe Stock assets (images, vectors, graphics, photos, templates).

Creative Cloud services
Creative services, including Adobe Fonts, Creative Cloud Libraries, and more than 1 million free Adobe Stock assets

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Store, sync, and share assets
1TB of cloud storage per user with pooled storage and the ability to access file version history for up to 180 days

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Third-party integrations, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Gmail, and more

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Administration tools & Deployment

Web-based Admin Console for easy license management. Centralized IT deployment tools (self-install option also available)

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Active Directory integration

Corporate identity support (SSO)

Admin role

System admin

System, Product, Product Profile, User Group, Deployment, Support

Control access to services by individual or group

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ADVANCED ASSET PROTECTION AND SECURITY

Encryption of assets

in transit (requires Business ID)

in transit (requires Business ID) and at rest

Asset storage and at-rest encryption

Encrypted multitenant storage

Multitenant storage with dedicated encryption key availability

Corporate ownership of user accounts, assets stored in the cloud, Content logs to show how users interact with assets

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Asset sharing and restrictions: shared storage, pooled quota, and asset reclamation

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Automated user management and directory synchronization via SDK

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DEDICATED HELP & SUPPORT

Online tutorials
Thousands of step-by-step guides and videos to help you learn the latest Creative Cloud tools

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Technical support

Advanced
24x7 technical support with dedicated phone line, plus email, chat, and forums

Enterprise level
24x7 technical support with priority access, plus email, chat, and forums

Expert Services
1:1 phone and web conference sessions with Adobe product experts

2 sessions per user per year
(All Apps plan only)

Unlimited
(All Apps plan only)

FLEXIBLE PURCHASING OPTIONS

Volume discounts
Available for 10+ licenses

Flexible subscription terms. Choose your own prepaid term, from one to three years

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So, What Should You Choose?

Reach out to india@noventiq.com for a free consultation and to know more about offers on Creative Cloud packages.

Choosing the right Creative Cloud subscription depends wholly on the needs and scale of your organization. In short, the Teams version is for smaller businesses looking for a scalable, flexible, and highly collaborative creative solution with a per-user licensing model, whereas the Enterprise version caters to large organizations with complex workflows and advanced security and compliance needs.

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USER EXPERIENCE

Creative Cloud for Enterprise

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