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Docusign vs. Adobe Sign FAQs

• What's the difference between Docusign eSignature and Adobe Sign?

  Docusign is the one innovative platform you can trust with all of your agreements. We remove the friction in the agreement process and help you build trust, by adding intelligence to the process and unlocking valuable data for everyone. This makes it easier for people to negotiate, make decisions faster and understand the risks involved. 

  With Docusign, you can remove friction from your entire agreement process—not just the electronic signature part of the process.

  Adobe Acrobat Sign offers simple e-signatures, but it can’t help address the larger challenge organisations face with their agreement workflows. 

  Docusign can help with identity verification for signers, document generation, automated agreement workflows, agreement storage and more in addition to electronic signatures.

  Docusign can also help you unlock the data that lives in your agreements. We help you extract the data from your contracts, search it and use it to make smarter business decisions. See when vendor contracts are coming up for renewal, easily find out how new legislation affects clauses of your existing agreements and more. Meanwhile, agreements in Adobe act like flat digital pieces of paper and don’t allow you the opportunity to gain this valuable business intelligence.

• Why choose Docusign over Adobe?

  With Docusign, you can take advantage of a full suite of products to make your agreement processes smarter, easier and more trusted.

  Docusign has products beyond simple e-signature to help you generate documents, verify signer identity, review and negotiate contracts, sign agreements, automate agreement workflows, store and manage agreements, and analyze agreements.

• What does Adobe say about Docusign?

  Adobe claims they are better because they have no extra fees, integrations with Microsoft 365 and plans with Acrobat with all-in-one document productivity. 

  In fact, Docusign has flexible plans so you pay for only what you need. 

  We also have a strategic partnership with Microsoft, including Microsoft 365 integrations. Docusign is Microsoft's preferred solution on Microsoft AppSource, representing a commitment to quality, performance and the ability to meet the needs of mutual customers. With Docusign integrations for Microsoft, your team can prepare, sign, collaborate, store and manage agreements within Microsoft apps, boosting productivity and accelerating the completion of agreements.

  And we offer all-in-one agreement productivity that goes across document types and your existing systems so you can easily incorporate agreement workflows into your other processes.

• Is Docusign suitable for Government?

  Absolutely! Since 2019 Docusign has been undertaking bi-annual IRAP assessments against the Government’s Information Security Manual (ISM). We are the only e-signature provider who is able to securely manage documents up to and including “Protected” classification.

  And it doesn’t stop there. A key part of any agency’s cloud strategy is the ability to centrally monitor and respond to actions undertaken by your staff and external stakeholders. Again, we are the only e-signature provider who provides you full control with near-real-time logging to your security monitoring systems to alert you of activities that you might view as suspicious.

  And when dealing with external signing parties, our automatic mobile-responsive rendering while maintaining WCAG compliance, ensures your agency maintains a positive approach to access and equity.

  These three key aspects provide government agencies and any other organisations that work alongside the government the peace of mind that Docusign can securely prepare, sign and manage agreements that contain sensitive information.

• Why is Docusign so popular in Australia?

  More than 1 billion users and 1 million customers trust Docusign with their agreements. In fact, over two-thirds of ASX listed companies in Australia are using Docusign eSignature. 

  With highly secure encryption standards, rigorous security certifications, and complete digital audit trails, Docusign gives you total confidence in every transaction. 

  Docusign eSignature is also the highest-ranked e-signature app in Salesforce AppExchange and is rated 98 out of 100 for ease of use, according to public reviews on G2.com.

  Docusign helps you make your agreements smarter and easier.

  Streamline complex contract workflows in a centralised platform—preparing, signing, managing, and analysing—so that contracting is smarter and goes beyond just a signature. Achieve faster time to value and avoid arduous implementation efforts by integrating quickly with APIs and more than 900 connectors. 

  Make it easy for anyone to agree, from within the tools and systems they use every day, by delivering a consistent and seamless experience on any device, including smartphones and tablets.