Adobe Acquires Electronic Signature Company EchoSign

Adobe brick Systems aforementioned on Monday that it has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and touch automation, for an undisclosed amount.

Adobe plans to add EchoSign's electronic signature technology to its document exchange services platform, to reduce the time, cost, and complexness associated with having a document communicative, the company said.

The company plans to break off equally a resolution of the acquisition a cloud-based electronic signature service, called eSignatures or eSign, that information technology released in Crataegus laevigata last year. The service is currently in beta and will be targeted for end-of-life, a keep company spokeswoman aforementioned on Mon. With the acquisition of EchoSign, existing users of Adobe eSign beta table service will "benefit from a much richer and over product offering for their electronic signature needs", she added.

The EchoSign engineering science, which is presently used by concluded 3 million users intercontinental, volition be integrated with other Adobe document services including SendNow for managed file transferral, FormsCentral for form creation and CreatePDF for online PDF creation.

The founders of EchoSign and all full-time employees will join Adobe, the company said.

"Together, our aim is to make lepton signatures the measure way for people to star sign documents and automatize contracting," Jason Lemkin, Chief executive officer of EchoSign in Palo Alto, California said in a web log post on Sunday on the company's website.

The opportunity for Adobe is large as hundreds of thousands of long envelopes are currently sent for signature every day, the Adobe spokeswoman said. FedEx's gross from overnight envelopes, for instance, was US$1.64 billion in 2010.

EchoSign provides a subscription-settled service to individuals, small to moderate-size businesses, and enterprisingness customers, assisting the signature process and mechanically storing and managing all communicatory documents, Adobe said.

The EchoSign service includes a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) for integration with company-specific solutions to improve the unconscious process of sending, trailing and signing digital documents, it added. The engineering is already intermingled with services from vendors like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, a vendor of obnubilate computing business enterprise management software suites.

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