SAN JOSE, Calif., and
REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Adobe (NASD
"ADBE") and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") recently
delivered their first set of joint solutions to help enterprises
transform their customer experience with Adobe Experience Cloud,
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics. The companies are now
expanding their strategic alliance to increase workforce
productivity and drive more efficient business processes. Beginning
today, Adobe Sign, the market-leading e-signature service in Adobe
Document Cloud, is now Microsoft's preferred e-signature solution
across the company's portfolio, including the 100 million monthly
commercial active users of Microsoft Office 365. In addition,
Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Microsoft Office
365, is now the preferred collaboration service for Adobe Creative
Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud. In addition to product
integrations, Adobe will make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud
platform for Adobe Sign. Together, Adobe and Microsoft will ensure
individuals and teams can efficiently collaborate, communicate and
drive decision-making across devices.
Adobe and Microsoft are the leaders in document and productivity
software, with a rich heritage of innovating to deliver ubiquitous
solutions that touch hundreds of millions of customers through
integrated desktop tools, innovative mobile apps and cloud-based
services. In addition to the partnership announced today, the
companies will explore opportunities to continue collaborating on
artificial intelligence, analytics and intelligent document
automation, taking productivity in the cloud to the next level.
"Adobe and Microsoft are working together to redefine what the
modern enterprise experience looks like with collaboration,
identity, data and intelligence at the core," said Abhay Parasnis, chief technology officer, Adobe.
"Together we will develop integrated cloud services with
best-in-class solutions like Adobe Sign and Office 365 that help
businesses digitally transform while delivering great experiences
to their customers."
"Together with Adobe, we're committed to fostering creativity
and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers, so they can
unlock the opportunities of today's rapidly evolving
workplace," said Peggy Johnson,
executive vice president, business development, Microsoft.
"We're thrilled that our partnership with Adobe has now
grown to span our three clouds — Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and
Dynamics 365 — providing customers with the powerful integrations
they need to navigate digital transformation."
The first integrations resulting from this partnership are
expected to be available to customers in the coming weeks:
- Integration between Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Sign
will deliver fast, secure electronic signing across Office 365,
including Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft
Outlook, so that signing documents electronically, on any device,
can become an everyday experience.
- Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Stock integration with
Microsoft Teams will give Adobe's creative customers access to
a world-class collaboration workspace that speeds up creative
feedback, iteration and decision-making. Microsoft Teams
integration will expand to Adobe Experience Cloud in the
future.
- Adobe Sign integration with Microsoft Teams will
accelerate electronic agreement creation, approval and signature
processes across teams. The Adobe Sign app in Microsoft Teams
includes a tab to send documents for signature and a bot that
allows team members to manage and track documents.
- Adobe Sign integration with Microsoft Flow will allow
users to build end-to-end digital workflows by adding Adobe Sign to
any Microsoft Flow process. In the coming months, organizations
will benefit from Flow integration with other Microsoft
applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics and OneDrive.
"When Adobe and Microsoft team up to innovate, their customers
win," said Jamie McLellan, chief
technology officer, J. Walter Thompson Worldwide. "As power users
of Microsoft Teams, Adobe Sign and Adobe Creative Cloud, we're
excited to realize the immediate impact delivered by these
integrations that will enhance creativity, teamwork and overall
productivity across our agency."
"The most successful companies today are relentlessly focused on
helping employees be more effective. Productivity suffers when work
requires multiple applications that don't interact," said
Alan Lepofsky, VP and principal
analyst at Constellation Research. "The integration of team
collaboration, electronic signatures and creative content provides
customers with huge efficiency gains, and paves the way for how
people will get work done in the future."
Availability
Adobe Sign for Microsoft Dynamics and
Microsoft SharePoint is already available. New Adobe Sign
integrations for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook are expected to be
available in the coming weeks. Adobe Creative Cloud integration
with Microsoft Teams is also expected to be available in the coming
weeks with Experience Cloud integrations to follow.
Helpful links
- Learn more about Adobe's integrations with Microsoft:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/why-adobe/integrations/microsoft.html.
- Read more from Adobe's chief technology officer, Abhay
Parasnis:
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/09/redefining-the-future-of-work.html.
About Adobe
Adobe is changing the world through
digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft)
is the leading platform and productivity company for the
mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower
every person and every organization on the planet to achieve
more.
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