Ya, the site explanation was confusing to me and I thought I was misreading when I saw a higher monthly cost point for the team license versus just getting multiple individual licenses. If the team setup requires user accounts per machine, I might as well just get six individuals and when we have less freelancers just cancel the subscriptions for the machines not being used. If we bloat again for a project, just start paying the monthly again for those machines. Not only save the difference in monthly cost, but also no need to constantly change user accounts per freelancer as they would basically be accounts based on machine. From a financial standpoint Team makes no sense. It still seems like the same work is being done as would be for an individual setup, so no sell for me honestly. Maybe that platform works for a large scale company (30+ staff) or something, but I feel that would be worse somehow. We go from the core three users to a bloat of twelve maybe and not all are tasked with AE work so I think I may have my answer. Thanks for the feedback all. And Todd I'm sure you'll pass along the thoughts shared here to those that need to know. Maybe a better explanation from Adobe could clear things up if I'm missing something too.
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"The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field The teams implementation is pretty ass backward. Having to create emails for eaxh account doesn't give teams the benefits it should have, especially since it costs more. Genius plan
People need to keep letting adobe know that teams implementation still needs tweaking Good to know. That's what my concern was. It's basically a user account tied to each seat then? Not just a simple authorization to run AE on six plus machines using just the one login. We have the freelancer rotation aspect here as well. David Torno Technical Director O: 213.739.2290 C: 818.391.6060 --------------------
"The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field I was in the exact same situation an felt frustrated by the increased cost. Seemed to me that buying in bulk should cost less, not more!
To us the real advantage of teams is the centralized billing. Though you can't really add/subtract seats quickly, if you add a seat you need to pay for the rest of the year for that seat or pay a pro rated penalty.
Even in teams you have to create individual email accounts for each seat which was also bizarre since we have multiple freelancers rotating thru workstations as needed.
In the end we connected with a local adobe reseller who was able to get us on board a 40% discount adobe was offering on teams, which was great. Then we setup an email alias for each account that forwards to me: cc1@, cc2@, cc3@, etc. We share a Google spreadsheet tracking which seats are activated on which workstation.
On Feb 28, 2014 6:05 PM, "David Torno" < torno@sydefxink.com> wrote:
So I am finally getting my voice heard and the CC conversation is on the table. Confusion is arising with the plan explanations on the Adobe site. What's the advantage of team? It looks as if it's ten dollars cheaper to go with multiple individual plans versus team at $30. Am I missing something? Or is it due to the extra storage and cloud frills offered in team. Which are not needed for us. We just want the software. :)
David Torno Technical Director
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"The most useless day is that in which we do not laugh" -Charles Field
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