Adobe Summit 2025, a major event for digital experience and marketing, kicked off on March 18, 2025, in Las Vegas, with both in-person and online participation. Day 1 featured the opening keynote and various sessions, highlighting Adobe’s latest advancements in AI and customer experience (CX). An unexpected detail was the financial impact, with Adobe’s new AI products already at $125 million in revenue, expected to surpass $250 million, driving over $3.5 billion in value.
Discussions were into establishing marketing leadership on three key dimensions – content, data, and journeys with Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Campaign, and Adobe Target.
As a sponsor of Adobe Summit 2025, Ranosys was present at the event, and we’re excited to bring you the key highlights.
Key Highlights:
1. Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator
The opening keynote, led by CEO Shantanu Narayen and CMO Lara Balazs, showcased Adobe’s vision for AI-powered digital experiences. A major focus was on Agentic AI with the introduction of Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator, enabling you to unlock the full potential of agentic capabilities and deliver truly personalized experiences at scale. This new capability provides the foundation for businesses to orchestrate purpose-built AI agents that engage directly with customers and support the daily work across Adobe applications and third-party ecosystems. Three critical elements:
- Purpose-built agents, a set of 10 new purpose-built agents with others coming soon and together they will supercharge your team’s capacity to deliver personalized experiences at scale by an order of magnitude each customer experience agent addresses a specific area where marketing and CX teams are overburdened and where your current processes can become bottlenecks the agents help you deliver specific business outcomes and free your teams to focus on the work that matters most. Some of these agents are site optimization agents, audience agents, and more.
- Multi-agent collaboration. AEP Agent Orchestrator uses adaptive decision-making to coordinate across multiple agents, both Adobe AI agents and the ones in your ecosystem to accomplish key goals while balancing computational efficiency, execution time, and resource utilization.
- The reasoning engine uses inference model processes, context-specific data constructs predictive models, and builds orchestration plans to understand the consumer’s intent and make decisions to continuously optimize towards a goal.
- The customer experience models are proprietary fine-tuned small language models within the agent orchestrator. They’re grounded in your CX data and use cases while maintaining your privacy and your data governance and they are essential to maintaining precision and high quality.
Adobe Brand Concierge built on AEP Agent Orchestrator, it helps you configure and manage AI agents that guide consumers and customers from exploration to purchase to loyalty. It enables real-time immersive and personalized experiences. Its multi-modal supports interactions across text, voice, images, and video because it is powered by content from AEM and insights. The brand concierge helps personalize every engagement based on customer preferences and previous interactions, all anchored in first-party data to ensure reliability and brand compliance. The Brand Concierge app was launched, offering a platform for building and managing both Adobe and third-party AI agents, further enhancing the ecosystem for personalized experiences.
2. Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service
1. Adobe Commerce as a Cloud service, introduced by Adobe during Summit 2025 will offer flexibility, scalability, and efficiency by enabling businesses to deliver and rapidly scale digital operations and accelerate innovation. Adobe’s cloud-native infrastructure automatically adjusts resources to meet peak demands for traffic, orders, and catalog management.
2. Adobe Commerce Optimizer, an experience layer for modern commerce, is designed to enhance performance and flexibility to help deliver faster, more scalable, and high-performing e-commerce experiences while reducing infrastructure costs and improving site reliability. Whether you’re tackling high-traffic events, streamlining checkout, or leveraging AI-driven insights, this tool is designed to help brands deliver faster, smarter, and more scalable shopping experiences.
3. Commerce Storefront powered by Edge Delivery to achieve ultra-fast, dynamic storefronts that enhance customer experience by delivering content closer to the end-user, improving load times, and boosting conversions. Commerce Storefront is a fully headless and decoupled architecture, which means that frontends can be independent from the Commerce Foundation. This provides merchants with the flexibility to build and test new touchpoints with emerging technologies.
4. Product Visuals are seamlessly managed through AEM Assets to efficiently manage, personalize, and distribute high-quality product imagery and videos across multiple channels, driving engagement and sales.
5. A rich set of merchandising services and payment services that support key business goals. They will also provide APIs imperative to optimize store performance and leverage limitless scalability.
- Live Search, an AI-powered search tool to deliver faster, hyper-relevant, and smarter results to shoppers
- Product Recommendations to provide AI-driven suggestions based on all historical data of a shopper, including behavior, popular trends, product similarity, and more
- Advanced Merchandising with catalog channels & policies, giving enterprises greater control over product catalogs, allowing them to customize and personalize product listings based on regions, customer segments, and business needs. Along with Adobe Commerce Optimizer, merchants can optimize catalog performance and improve conversion rates.
- Payment services to include more payment methods to drive purchases, including interest-free payment installments. It will also provide a single view of payment processing, orders, and invoices.
6. Simplified asset management via a robust digital asset management (DAM) system integrated with Adobe Experience Manager for easy managing of rich media content.
7. Adobe provides comprehensive extension points and tools to extend Commerce Foundation capabilities and integrate it with third-party systems. This reduces the total cost of ownership of the platform by improving scalability, providing an isolated environment where developers can upgrade or modify their extensions without relying on core release, and also with technological independence to choose tech stacks and coding languages as per their needs. Other developer tools provided for integrations and customizations are:
- API Mesh for Adobe Developer App Builder – Combines multiple data sources (APIs, GraphQL, REST) into a single, easy-to-use endpoint, making integrations smoother and reducing complexity.
- App Builder – This lets you create secure, scalable web applications that extend Adobe Commerce features and seamlessly connect with other platforms.
- Events – Set up custom event triggers to automate actions and connect with other development tools.
- Webhooks – Automatically sync data between Adobe Commerce and third-party systems by triggering real-time updates.
- Admin UI SDK – Customize and enhance the Adobe Commerce Admin Panel by adding new features and personalized interfaces for merchants.
- Integration Starter Kit – Speeds up your back-office integrations with ready-to-use templates, scripts, and best practices for a seamless setup.
8. Commerce Foundation, a secure automated hosting platform with self-service features for managing eCommerce apps in a cloud-native environment. This includes simplified onboarding and seamless upgrades.
Day 1 of Adobe Summit 2025 was filled with insights and learnings. However, these are just some key insights, there is more that you can check out here.
Conclusion
The 2025 Adobe Summit showcased a future powered by creative + marketing + AI. This is now the era of customer experience orchestration where all your content, customer data, and journeys work in harmony with AI so you anticipate what you engage in natural language conversations across any channel you respond to in real time and you continuously Delight them. This is the era where you pin point your marketing and your customer experience investments to the things that matter the most to your customers you ensure that your text tack in your processes are the most efficient given the current environment and ultimately you supercharge customer acquisition engagement retention and growth by delivering personalization specific to every individual whether they’re a consumer or whether you’re a B2B business.
As a proud sponsor of this year’s Adobe Summit, Ranosys gained valuable insights firsthand. Our team of Adobe experts can help you leverage these insights to enhance your Customer Experience Management (CXM) solutions. Contact us to know more: https://www.ranosys.com/contact-us/
