Adobe inks pact with Microsoft

New Delhi: Adobe, US-based software company, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to set up a common vision of the future workplace and transforming digital experiences. With hybrid workspace setting in globally, Adobe said that the partnership would explore new ways to meet their joint customers and help with thrive their respective businesses and employees.

Tapping on the potential of digital revolution, Adobe said that businesses must adapt to deliver against customer and employee demand for digital-first everything. Under the collaboration, Adobe's products and services including PDF, e-Signature and document automation will be integrated in Microsoft 365.

On the collaboration announcement, Ashley Still, senior vice-president and general Manager, Digital Media at Adobe, said: "These deep product integrations allow people to do their best work by connecting the apps they use daily — from negotiating and signing a contract from within Microsoft Teams, Outlook or SharePoint, review PDFs on a mobile device with Liquid Mode in Microsoft Edge and more."

In recently published research of Adobe, namely, "the Future of Time — an Adobe Report," 86 percent of workers at surveyed enterprise and 83 percent of small business leaders reported that unimportant tasks like managing files andbusiness documents get in the way of doing their jobs effectively. Microsoft has said that the company examined employee's technology usage and found the average work week increased 10 percent after the shift to remote work. Jared Spataro, corporate vice president, Microsoft, said: "We're expanding our partnership with Adobe to solve the productivity paradox and makedigital work and life as creative, collaborative, and efficient as possible. Millions of joint Adobe andMicrosoft customers will have easy access to the best digital document experiences wherever theyare, changing the game for modern productivity and the future of work."

Adobe also stated that their service Adobe Sign, has become preferred e-signature solution across Microsoft's entire portfolio, and the number of digitally signed agreements increased 17 times in the past two years. More than 180 million Microsoft commercial activeusers have access to Adobe Sign as part of their Microsoft workflows.