Adobe Sign

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Adobe Acrobat Sign
Developer(s) Adobe Inc. (acquired as EchoSign)
Initial releaseJanuary 2006 (as EchoSign). [1]
Operating system Windows, macOS, iOS, Android [2]
Available in34 languages [3]
List of languages
English (United States), English (United Kingdom), French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Slovakian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish
Type Software
License Proprietary, Commercial Software
Website adobesign.com

Adobe Acrobat Sign (formerly EchoSign, eSign & Adobe Sign) is a cloud-based e-signature service that allows the user to send, sign, track, and manage signature processes using a browser or mobile device. [4] It is part of the Adobe Document Cloud suite of services.

Contents

Adobe Sign also supports Sandbox environment for Enterprise tier customers to test templates, customer workflows, and more. These objects can be moved from production to the sandbox for updates in a safe environment, then moved back to production once the updates are verified and ready for deployment. [5]

History

On July 18, 2011, Adobe Systems announced its acquisition of the web-based electronic signatures company EchoSign which would become the basis for the Adobe Sign product. [6] By December of that year, Adobe Systems released a mobile application of the product for iOS. [7] In 2016 Adobe Sign was introduced as a way to request, receive, and submit e-signatures. The product offers integrations with Dropbox, Salesforce, Workday, Box and Microsoft OneDrive. [8]

In October 2020, Adobe signed a deal with online notarization provider Notarize to integrate the company's remote online notarization capability into Adobe Sign. [9]

In September 2021, a 30-day Enterprise trial on Adobe.com with full enterprise capabilities and guided in-product feature discovery (including video tutorials) was launched.

Products

Adobe Sign is sold in subscriptions at the individual, small business, or enterprise level. [10] Some of the services available are:

Adobe Sign is continuously maintained with new releases that feature refreshes of legal forms, security updates, and other product enhancements. [13]

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