Adobe

UCSB has transferred to the Enterprise Terms Licensing Agreement (ETLA) with Adobe. This agreement is a 3 year commitment. It features a full range of Adobe apps, tools, and services using a centralized deployment system.

Offered products include:

• Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Only suite offering different adobe products
• Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop Express 
• Adobe Acrobat 
• Shared Device License for Labs

No other single application feature is available–apart from Acrobat, you would need to buy the Creative Cloud Suite.

Adobe Acrobat Pro

• Adobe Acrobat is a singular application featured within Adobe Creative Cloud. This stand-alone license features advanced PDF editing and management.
• This is cheaper than Adobe Creative Cloud and is recommended for users who only need a PDF editing application.

Adobe Creative Cloud

• Adobe Creative Cloud features a broad range of applications for photography, graphic design, UX design, video editing, social media, and more. 
• Some applications include: 
  • Acrobat Pro – 
  • Adobe Premiere Pro – 
  • Photoshop –
  • Illustrator
  • And more.
• This is the most expensive license and is recommended for those who are looking for a wide array of software for creative ventures. The variety of applications allow for opportunities beyond basic functionalities to upgrade and take projects to another level of quality. 

Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop Express

• This license features a package deal of the applications Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop Express. Photoshop Express is designed for content creation and includes tools such as photo editing, templates, fonts, graphics, and more. 
• Combining these applications together allows users to edit their PDFs after Acrobat with Photoshop Express to redesign and stylize documents.
• This is an option for users who want a middle ground between Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Creative Cloud. 

Shared Device Licenses

• Shared device licenses are only available for labs, in which all the lab machines can have a Creative Cloud or Acrobat shared license.
• In order to make a request for this license, please let us know what type of machines are there.
• These are the platforms that are available for lab machines:

Steps to Request for a License

Staff & Faculty

To request an Adobe license, please contact your department's Funding or Procurement Team and ask them to submit a Procurement Gateway Order on your behalf.

After the requisition has been submitted, email cosl@ucsb.edu with your Procurement Gateway Order Number. The COSL team will use this information to locate and process your request.

COSL will invoice software transactions on the procurement gateway before the end of the month so that the cost of licensing will appear in the following month’s financial journal of your fund. 

Information for Department Procurement Teams

Before submitting a Gateway Order, please review the instructions on our Confluence page. If you are unable to access the confluence page, please let us know and we can send you this information over email. Following these instructions ensures that all required information is included in the requisition, helping to avoid processing delays.

If you have any questions, please contact cosl@ucsb.edu.

Important Update:

The ServiceNow Catalog previously served as a temporary solution for software purchase requests to support fiscal verification and approval.

Effective immediately:

• All software license purchase requests must be submitted through the Procurement Gateway.
• The COSL ServiceNow Catalog will be used exclusively for licensing assistance and support and will be streamlined into a simplified request catalog.

This change ensures that all software purchasing is processed through the appropriate procurement workflow while maintaining ServiceNow as the primary platform for licensing support.