One of the technologies I’ve been waiting to advance more into the mainstream is electronic signatures. While I have a smooth process down to print out contracts and other documents that need my signature and then scan them into PDFs with my Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, I would still like to whittle down the signatory process even further. Now that EchoSign, an electronic signature solution is an Adobe acquisition, I decided to reopen my research into electronic signature options.
I’ve been following all the news about email bans in offices and the state of cloud based productivity tools in general lately. While I am a proponent of social media tools inside the enterprise, nothing cuts it as good old-fashioned forms based workflow in some environments. When I previously wrote about Adobe FormsCentral, a forms creation tool, it was easy to see where it could sit as foundational tool inside a virtual team or to take forms based process out of the email inbox.
The latest round of Adobe FormsCentral updates further cements it as a leader in electronic forms and a tool to consider if you want to move your forms from email to something more cloud-based and usable.
Last week, Adobe launched CreatePDF for creating PDFs on the iPad and iPhone. While I am sure Adobe must have a love/hate relationship with Apple and iOS devices in particular, they are still making their presence known on the platform. It’s available for $9.99 from the App Store.
I use PDFs a lot during the course of my work so I was interested in giving the app a shot because I rely on the PDF format so much. While the iPad may never replace my laptop, I do process my fair share of email while using it.
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