The Adobe Creative Suite Productivity Benchmark

Pfeiffer Report • Benchmark OverviewThe Adobe Creative Suite Productivity Benchmark Productivity Measures of Application Integration and AdministrationWhat is the impact of integration on productivity? Major FindingsProductivity is a complex subject, and it is often hard to imagine the real impact • The Adobe Creative Suite offers higher of a specific functionality on productivity until one has measured it thoroughly. productivity through tighter integration of In the case of the Adobe Creative Suite, the situation is even more complex: this individual applications.benchmark project did not set out to measure the productivity of Photoshop or Illustrator, but focuses specifically on the Adobe Creative Suite as a whole. • Version management and workflow assistance can significantly reduce the time necessary Most users intuitively grasp the convenience of having an integrated appli-to locate a required document in the file cation environment. However, those same users have a hard time articulating system and reduce the risk of versioning how or why they’re more productive in one. Often a single individual instance problems.of a streamlined operation has an impact on overall productivity simply because that operation gets repeated so many times. One might even conclude that the • File format integration between applications in biggest overall time savings—and the basis of your return on investment—results the Adobe Creative Suite offers a powerful from the cumulative ...