They include an integration with Dropbox, as well as introduction of a drag-and-drop Workflow Designer, enhanced electronic signatures and Enterprise Mobility Management and Signature Capture.
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The partnership will allow users to add their Dropbox account to Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader desktop apps, which will allow users to open PDFs stored in Dropbox from directly inside Adobe. These capabilities build on existing integration between Adobe eSign services and Dropbox, which lets users to access, track and sign PDF files stored in Dropbox. This new feature/collaboration will work across the desktop version of Dropbox and the mobile version as well.
“The way businesses interact with each other and with customers today is nearly unrecognizable compared to how we did business in the past”, said Paul Robson, President, Adobe Asia Pacific.
Dropbox users can open, edit and save changes to PDF documents in the Adobe apps directly from the Dropbox website, iOS app or Android app. The integration addresses a strong need, said the partners, as PDF is the most common business file type in Dropbox.
Adobe last month announced a team-up with Salesforce and Workday, and this is to integrate its Document Cloud e-signature services into their products.
There are a few 18 billion PDF files in Dropbox, according to Adobe, so there are thousands of users who will benefit from this move, as Kevin Lynch, general manager of Adobe Document Cloud, explained. “Our work with Dropbox, as our first file sync and share partner, will help Adobe Document Cloud customers and people around the world be more productive with the documents at the center of their daily lives”.
The eSign services integration with Ariba lets users add multiple signers, define signing order, and verify signers with multi-factor authentication.
It’s worth noting that advanced workflows can be created as well, for processes like finalizing sales contracts, before, during and after signing. New Document Cloud data centers are planned for Ireland and Germany by the end of 2015, with global expansion continuing through 2016, Adobe said. “It preserves the record of that transaction – and the signed document – so the history and intent are both clear”, she added. For example, use new functionality to correct documents “in flight” – when the wrong document has been sent by mistake, simply fix and resend instead of cancelling and starting over. Employees can use their mobile device camera to take a photo of their handwritten signature once, then use it to sign documents thereafter. “Our collaboration with Adobe, the inventor of the PDF, is the next step in this process”.
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Adobe plans to work on similar integrations with other storage providers in the future, and it’s been cultivating a partner ecosystem around its Document Cloud beyond that, too.
