Case Study: KADOKAWA centralizes license management and cuts costs with Adobe Photoshop

KADOKAWA - Customer Case Study

KADOKAWA, a major Japanese publishing and entertainment company that consolidated nine brand companies under its “One Company” strategy, faced fragmented creative software use—departments ran different, often older versions—making license tracking, hardware compatibility, and compliance time‑consuming and costly. To solve this, KADOKAWA turned to Adobe Photoshop and adopted Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise.

With Adobe Photoshop’s Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise and the Adobe Enterprise Dashboard, KADOKAWA centralized license management, simplified account deactivation, eliminated excess licenses, and enabled on‑demand upgrades. The change drove measurable impact: 550 Adobe ID requests in the first month, lower upgrade and maintenance costs, improved compliance, and faster production workflows through access to current tools like Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC and InDesign CC.

KADOKAWA

Yuuji Kagami

Office Automation Management Section Head